G3776: οὐσία (ousía)

G3776 οὐσία (ousía)

Greek

Quick Definition

οὐσία, ας, ἡ n.f. property, wealth

Strong's Definition

from the feminine of 5607; substance, i.e. property (possessions)

KJV Usage: goods, substance

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

οὐσία (G3776)

noun, f. | -ας | εἰμί

57.19 · Possess, Transfer, Exchange · Have, Possess, Property, Owner

property, wealth (derivative of εἰμί[c] ‘to exist,’ 13.69) that which exists as property and wealth In most contexts in which οὐσία occurs in non-biblical Greek, the reference is to considerable possessions or wealth, and accordingly it would be appropriate in LUK 15:12 to speak of ‘estate.’

LUK 15:12 · LUK 15:13

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

οὐσία, -as, ἡ, (fr. dv, οὖσα. ὄν, the ptep. of εἰμί), what one has, i.e. property, possessions, estate, [ A.V. substance]: Lk. xv. 12sq. (Tob. xiv. 13; Hdt. 1, 92; Xen., Plat., Attic oratt., al.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

οὐσία ousia 2x

substance, property, goods, fortune, Lk. 15:12, 13*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

** οὐσία, -ας, ἡ

(< οὖσα, fem. part. of εἰμί), [in LXX: To 14:13, III Mac 3:28*;]

substance, property: Lk 15:12, 13.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

οὐσία, ὁ property in land,” ‘‘estate” (cf. Lk 1 5124) can be illustrated from Ptolemaic times by P Tebt I. 653 (B.c. 140-139) ajr’ οὐσιῶν, with reference to the proceeds derived “' from properties.’’ In Roman times the word is very common, e.g. P Ryl II. 1267 (a.p, 28-9) γεωρ]γοῦ τῆς ᾿Ιουλίας Σεβ[αστῆς] οὐσίας, ‘farmer on the estate of Julia Augus a,” 16. 1.819 (A.D. 34) τῶν ἐλαιώνων τῆς αὐτῆς οὐσίας, “the olive-yards of the aforesaid estate,’’ P Oxy III. 471% (ii/a.p.) τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆς γυναικὸς καὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν ἀναλη[μ]φθῆναι κελεύεις, “you order his property and that of his wife and friends to be confiscated ”’ (Edd.), «1 The word is used of Imperial estate in such a passage as P Ryl II. 1348 (A.D. 34) γεωργοῦ τῆ[9] Τιβερίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ οὐσία(ς) Γερμανικιανῆς, ‘farmer on the Germanician estate of Tiberius Caesar Augustus.” For the corresponding use of the adj. οὐσιακός, cf. P Tebt II. 3177 (a.p. 174-5) ἐπὶ τοῦ κρατίστου οὐσιακοῦ ἐπιτίρόϊπου Οὐλπίου Ἡρακλείδου, “before his highness the procurator of the Imperial estates ”’ (Edd.), α΄, and on the οὐσιακὴ γῆ as the patrimonial possession of the Emperor, see Chrest. I. i. p. 298 ff. For οὐσία in the sense of ‘‘ essence,” ‘ being,” cf. P Leid Wi: 85 (ii/iii ap.) (=II. p. 105) ἀποσκεδασθήτω pov πᾶσα φηλόξ (/. φλόξ), πᾶσα δύναμις οὐσίας (cf. MGr πάνω στὴν ov., “in the prime of life’’), and on the general use of οὐσία and οὐσιάζω in the magic papyri, see Wiener Studien xl. (1918), p. 5 ff. For the ὁμοούσιος of the Creeds Sharp (Zpict. p. 128) compares Epict. ii. 8. 2 τίς οὖν οὐσία θεοῦ ; σάρξ ; μὴ γένοιτο κτλ.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

οὐσία (ousia) — estate. οὐσί-α, Ionic dialect -ιη[Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialect ἐσσία, ὠσία (which see): ἡ: (ὀντ-, participle of εἰμί sum):—that which is one's own, one's substance, property, [Refs 5th c.BC+][same place], etc.; opposed to τὰ σώματα (civil status), [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰ ἐκεκτήμην οὐ. if I had been a man of substance, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; φανερὰ οὐσία real property, immovables, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀφανής, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently of estates in Egypt, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]

II. in Philos., like Ionic dialect φύσις (with which it is interchanged in various uses, e. g. [Refs 5th c.BC+], stable being, immutable reality, opposed to γένεσις, ὅτιπερ πρὸς γένεσιν οὐσία, τοῦτο πρὸς πίστιν ἀλήθεια [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁδὸς εἰς οὐσίαν [Refs]: hence, being in the abstract, opposed to non-being (τὸ μὴ εἶναι), [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.2. substance, essence, opposed to πάθη ('modes'), [Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to συμβεβηκότα ('accidents'), [Refs]

II.3. true nature of that which is a member of a kind, defined as ὃ τυγχάνει ἕκαστον ὄν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; as τὸ ὅ ἐστι[Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ εἶναί τε καὶ τὴν οὐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; expressed in a formula or definition, ψυχῆς οὐ. τε καὶ λόγον [Refs 4th c.BC+]

II.4. the possession of such a nature, substantiality, ἔτι ἐπέκεινα τῆς οὐ. πρεσβείᾳ.. ὑπερέχοντος [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.5. in the concrete, the primary real, the substratum underlying all change and process in nature, applied by [Refs 4th c.BC+] to the atoms of Democritus, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.6. in Logic, substance as the leading category, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἱ πρῶται οὐ. (individuals), αἱ δεύτεραι οὐ. (species and genera), [Refs]; ἡ οὐ. ἐντελέχεια[Refs]; of the abstract objects of mathematics, μονὰς οὐ. ἄθετος, στιγμὴ δὲ οὐ. θετός [Refs]

II.7. after [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ οὐσίαν, opposed to κατὰ δύναμιν ἢ ἐνέργειαν, Polystr.p.12 W.; πᾶς νοῦς ἀμέριστός ἐστιν οὐ. [Refs 3rd c.AD+]

II.8. [Refs 4th c.BC+]

III. name of a plaster, [Refs 6th c.AD+]

IV. αἱ οὐ. fireresisting substances, Zos.Alch.p.168 [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the four σώματα (copper, tin, lead, iron), [Refs 5th c.BC+]

V. in Magic, a material thing by which a connexion is established between the person to be acted upon and the supernatural agent, e.g. a hair, λαβὼν βελόνην διείρων τὴν οὐ. εἰς αὐτήν [Refs]