Word Summary
ousia: substance, property
Original Word: οὐσίαTransliteration: ousia
Phonetic Spelling: (oo-see'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: substance, property
Meaning: substance, property
Strong's Concordance
goods, property
From the feminine of on; substance, i.e. Property (possessions) -- goods, substance.
see GREEK on
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3776: οὐσίαοὐσία,
οὐσίας,
ἡ (from
ὤν,
οὖσα,
ὄν, the participle of
εἰμί),
what one has, i. e.
property, possessions, estate (
A. V. substance):
Luke 15:12f. (Tobit 14:13;
Herodotus 1, 92;
Xenophon,
Plato, Attic orators, others.)