STRONGS G2275:
ἥττημα [cf. Buttmann, 7;
WH's Appendix, p. 166],
-τος,
τό, (
ἡττάομαι);
1. a diminution, decrease:
i. e. defeat, Isaiah 31:8;
αὐτῶν, brought upon the Jewish people in that so few of them had turned to Christ,
Romans 11:12 [R. V. loss].
2. loss, namely, as respects salvation,
1 Corinthians 6:7 [R. V. text
defect]. Cf. Meyer [but cf. his 6te Aufl.] on each passage. (Elsewhere only in ecclesiastical writings.)
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