Word Summary
athetēsis: a setting aside
Original Word: ἀθέτησιςTransliteration: athetēsis
Phonetic Spelling: (ath-et'-ay-sis)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a setting aside
Meaning: a setting aside
Strong's Concordance
a setting aside, annulment
From atheteo; cancellation (literally or figuratively) -- disannulling, put away.
see GREEK atheteo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 115: ἀθέτησιςἀθέτησις,
(εως,
ἡ (
ἀθετέω, which see; like
νουθέτησις from
νουθετεῖν),
abolition:
Hebrews 7:18;
Hebrews 9:26; (found occasionally in later authors, as
Cicero, ad Att. 6, 9;
Diogenes Laërtius 3, 39, 66: in the grammarians rejection; more frequently in ecclesiastical writings).