ιμωρία, τιμωρίας, ἡ (τιμωρός, see τιμωρέω); 1. a rendering help; assistance ((Herodotus, Thucydides, others)). 2. vengeance, penalty, punishment: Heb_10:29 (Pro_19:29; Pro_24:22; in the Greek writings from Aeschylus and Herodotus down). (Synonym: see κόλασις, at the end.)

τιμωρία timōria 1x punishment, Heb_10:29

τιμωρία , -ας , ἡ ( < τιμωρέω ), [in LXX : Pro_24:22 ( H6365 ), etc.;] 1. help, assistance. 2. vengeance, punishment: Heb_10:29 .† SYN.: κόλασις G2851 , q.v. , and cf. MM , xxiv.

τιμωρία [page 636] found in the NT only in Heb_10:29 , conveys like the verb the idea of giving an offender his deserts, without the thought of discipline which normally attaches to κόλασις . So in P Lond 1171 verso ( c ) .12 (A.D. 42) (= III. p. 107) κα̣τὰ τούτου τῇ ἀνωτάτω χρήσομαι τειμωρίᾳ , a prefect threatens those who employ unauthorized violence and forced labour or extortion towards the natives, P Leid W vii. 28 (ii/iii A.D.) (= II. p. 105) ὁ κτίσας τὴν ἀναγκή (ν ), καὶ τιμωρίαν , καὶ τὴν βάσανον , and BGU IV. 1024 iv. 17 (iv/v A.D.) ἐκδέξι το [ίνυν ] τὴ [[η ]]ν ἕως κεφ [αλῆ ]ς τ [ι ]μωρίαν a sentence of capital punishment.

τιμωρία τι_μωρία, ἡ, [Etym: from τιμωρός] "help, aid, assistance, succour", Hdt. , Thuc. "assistance to one who has suffered wrong, retribution, vengeance, punishment", Hdt. , etc.; πατρὸς τ. "vengeance taken for" him, Eur. ; ἐπὶ τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ τ. for the purpose of "punishing" us, Thuc. ; ποιεῖσθαι τιμωρίαν to execute "vengeance", Dem. ; τ. εὑρεῖν τινος "to find" vengeance at his hand, Aesch. ; τιμωρίαν λαμβάνειν, τιμωρίας τυγχάνειν are used both of the avenger and the sufferer, Plat. , Thuc. :—in pl., "penalties", Plat. [Etym: from τι_μωρός]

τιμωρία, -ας, ἡ (τιμωρέω), [in LXX: Pro.24:22 (פִּיד), etc. ;] __1. help, assistance. __2. vengeance, punishment: Heb.10:29.† SYN.: κόλασις, which see, and cf. MM, xxiv (AS)