ἀπώλεια, 
-ας, 
ἡ, (from 
ἀπόλλυμι, which see);
1. actively, 
a destroying, utter destruction: as, of vessels, 
Romans 9:22; 
τοῦ μύρου, 
waste, Mark 14:4 (in 
Matthew 26:8 without a genitive) (in Polybius 6, 59, 5 consumption, opposed to 
τήρησις); the putting of a man to death, 
Acts 25:16 Rec.; by metonymy, a destructive thing or opinion: in plural 
2 Peter 2:2 Rec.; but the correct reading 
ἀσελγείαις was long ago adopted here.
2. passively, 
a perishing, ruin, destruction;
a. in general: 
τὸ ἀργύριόν σου σύν σοι εἴη εἰς ἀπ., let thy money perish with thee, 
Acts 8:20; 
βυθίζειν τινὰ εἰς ὄλεθρον κ. 
ἀπώλειαν, with the included idea of misery, 
1 Timothy 6:9; 
αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας destructive opinions, 
2 Peter 2:1; 
ἐπάγειν ἑαυτοῖς ἀπώλειαν, ibid. cf. 
2 Peter 2:3.
b. in particular, 
the destruction which consists in the loss of eternal life, eternal misery, perdition, the lot of those excluded from the kingdom of God: 
Revelation 17:8, 
11, cf. 
Revelation 19:20; 
Philippians 3:19; 
2 Peter 3:16; opposed to 
ἡ περιποίησις τῆς ψυχῆς, 
Hebrews 10:39; to 
ἡ ζωή, 
Matthew 7:13; to 
σωτηρία, 
Philippians 1:28. 
ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας, a man doomed to eternal misery (a Hebraism, see 
υἱός, 2): 
2 Thessalonians 2:3 (of Antichrist); 
John 17:12 (of Judas, the traitor); 
ἡμέρα κρίσεως κ. 
ἀπωλείας τῶν ἀσεβῶν, 
2 Peter 3:7. (In secular authors from Polybius as above [but see Aristotle, probl. 17, 3, 2, vol. ii., p. 916
a, 26; 29, 14, 10 ibid. 952
b, 26; Nicom. eth. 4, 1 ibid. 1120
a, 2, etc.]; often in the 
Sept. and 
O. T. Apocrypha.) 
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