ζημίαzēmía
damage, loss: Acts 27:10, Acts 27:21, Philippians 3:8; opposed to κέρδος, Philippians 3:7.
Greek (New Testament) · G2209
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Acts 27:10 “Men,” he said, “I believe there is trouble ahead if we go on—shipwreck, loss of cargo, and danger to our lives as well.”
- Acts 27:21 No one had eaten for a long time. Finally, Paul called the crew together and said, “Men, you should have listened to me in the first place and not left Crete. You would have avoided all this damage and loss.
- Philippians 3:7 I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.
- Philippians 3:8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.