[B-Greek] ἀπολέσαι APOLESAI destroy

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 10 11:12:03 EST 2008


What you consider to be an "inflected" form would probably depend upon what you consider its base form to be.  Is that the pres first sg or is it the pres inf?  While we are accustomed to using the pres 1st sg as the headword in lexicons, I think most would consider "run" or "speak" as an infinitive form "to run" or "to speak" rather than "I run" or "I speak."  With this in mind, there are 90 occurences (in 84 verses) of some form of the word in the NT and 30 occurences in the LXX.  Obviously, I don't intend to give all of them here.  BDAG classifies the usages under three uses:
   
  ① to cause or experience destruction 
  ② to fail to obtain what one expects or anticipates, lose out on, lose 
      ③ to lose someth. that one already has or be separated from a normal connection, lose, be lost 
   
  I suggest that you look through the citations in each category.
   
  george
  gfsomsel
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Anita Clerke <clerke at humanperformance.cc> wrote:




  In Matthew 10:28 Jesus stated that one should fear Him who can 
destroy (ἀπολÎ&shy;σαι [APOLESAI]) both soul and body in hell.

In Matthew 18:14 an inflected form is used – namely, “your Father 
in heaven is not willing that any of the little ones should perish 
(ἀπόληται [APOLΗΤAI])

Could someone please provide details on where else these inflected 
forms are used in the New Testament?

Could someone please provide a few examples of where these inflected 
forms are used outside of the NT, and from about the same time 
period, give or take a couple of hundred years?

Regards
Jonathan




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george
gfsomsel

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