Original Word: ἀπαλγέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: apalgeó
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-alg-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I am past feeling, cease to care, become callous
Definition: (lit: I cease to feel [my] pain), am past feeling, cease to care (suggesting sometimes despair, sometimes recklessness), become callous, reckless.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).)

to become callous, apathetic

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

see GREEK apo

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