- ἀπαλγέω
- ἀπαλγέω pf. ἀπήλγηκα (ἀλγέω ‘suffer’; Thu. 2, 61, 4 et al.; Philo, Exs. 135).① to be so inured that one is not bothered by the implications of what one is doing, become callous, dead to feeling, without a sense of right and wrong (Polyb. 16, 12, 7; cp. Nägeli 34) ἀπηλγηκότες dead to all feeling (REB; so, with variations, most translations) Eph 4:19. For a difft. perspective s. 2.② to be filled with a heavy sense of loss or deprivation, be despondent (Polyb. 1, 35, 5 ἀπηλγηκυίας ψυχάς; Cass. Dio 48, 37) Eph 4:19 (cp. the v.l. ἀπηλπικότες ‘despairing’, and cp. 2:12 ἐλπίδα μὴ ἔχοντες; their hopelessness leads them into vice: ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ). S. 1 above.
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