Quick Definition
ἀπαλγέω v. I am past feeling, cease to care, become callous
Strong's Definition
from 575 and algeo (to smart); to grieve out, i.e. become apathetic
KJV Usage: be past feeling
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | ἀλγέω (feel pain)
25.197 · Attitudes and Emotions · Shame, Disgrace, Humiliation
to lose a feeling of shame, to become calloused to lose the capacity to feel shame or embarrassment
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀπ-αλγέω, -ὦ : [pf. ptep. ἀπηλγηκώς]}; to cease to feel pain or grief; a. to bear troubles with greater equanimity, cease to feel pain at: Thue. 2, 61 ete. b. to become callous, insensible to pain, apathetic : so those wha have become insensible to truth and honor and shame are called ἀπηλγηκότες [A. V. past feeling] in Eph. iv. 19. (Polyb. 1, 35, 5 ἀπηλγηκυίας ψυχάς dispirited and useless for war, [ef. Polyb. 16, 12, 7].)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀπαλγέω apalgeō 1x
pr. to desist from grief; hence, to become insensible or callous, Eph. 4:19*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἀπ-αλγέω, -ῶ, prop., to cease to feel pain for (Thuc., ii, 61).
In late Gk. to despair (Polyb., i, 35, 5);
to become callous, reckless (Polyb., xvi, 12, 7; MM, VGT, s.v.): Eph 4:19.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀπαλγέω. To Grimm-Thayer’s reff. for this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (Eph 419 ἀπηλγηκότες, but ἀπηλπικότες DG etc.) in its Hellenistic sense of “to despair” or ‘* become callous,” add Dion Cass. xlvill. 37 @. πρὸς τὴν ἐλπίδα.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀπαλγέω (apalgeō) — to become callous. ἀπαλγ-έω, put away sorrow for, τὰ ἴδια[Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. generally, to be despondent, ἀ. ταῖς ἐλπίσιν[NT+2nd c.BC+]