STRONGS NUMBER G524


Word Summary
apalgeō: to cease to feel pain for
Original Word: ἀπαλγέω
Transliteration: apalgeō
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-alg-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to cease to feel pain for
Meaning: to cease to feel pain for
Strong's Concordance
to become callous, apathetic

From apo and algeo (to smart); to grieve out, i.e. Become apathetic -- be past feeling.

see GREEK apo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 524: ἀπαλγέω

ἀπαλγέω, ἀπάλγω: (perfect participle ἀπηλγηκως); to cease to feel pain or grief;

a. to bear troubles, with greater equanimity, cease to feel pain at: Thucydides 2, 61 etc.

b. to become callous, insensible to pain, apathetic: so those who have become insensible to truth and honor and shame are called ἀπηλγηκότες (A. V. past feeling) in Ephesians 4:19. (Polybius 1, 35, 5 ἀπηλγηκυιας ψυχάς dispirited and useless for war (cf. Polybius 16, 12, 7).)