Quick Definition
ἀπόλαυσις, εως, ἡ n.f. the faculty or experience of enjoyment
Strong's Definition
from a comparative of 575 and lauo (to enjoy); full enjoyment
KJV Usage: enjoy(-ment)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀπόλαυσις, -ews, 7, (fr. ἀπολαύω to enjoy), enjoyment (Lat. fructus): 1 Tim. vi. 17 (εἰς ἀπόλαυσιν to enjoy) ; Heb. xi. 25 (ἁμαρτίας ἀπόλ. pleasure born of sin). (In Grk. writ. fr. [Eur. and] Thue. down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀπόλαυσις apolausis 2x
beneficial participation, 1 Tim. 6:17; enjoyment, pleasure, Heb. 11:25*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** ἀπόλαυσις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀπολαύω, to take of, enjoy a thing), [in LXX: III Mac 7:16*;]
enjoyment: I Ti 6:17, He 11:25 (for late exx., v. MM, s.v.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀπόλαυσις. OGZS 383} 8. (Commagene inscription, 1.8.6.) οὐ μόνον κτῆσιν βεβαιοτάτην. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν ἡδίστην ἀνθρώποις ἐνόμισα τὴν εὐσέβειαν, 20. κοινὴν ἀπόλαυσιν ἑορτῆς παρεχέτω, 70. 66ο" (i/A.D.) τά τε πρὸς σωτηρίαν καὶ τὰ πρὸς ἀπόλαυσιν, /G XII. iii. 32615 (Thera, time of Antonines) πρὸς [ἀπ]όλαυσιν. Cf. εἰς ἀπόλαυσιν in Didache 10°. A derived adjective occurs in Vettius Valens p. 1535 at δὲ ἑξῆς € (sc. μοῖραι) ᾿Αφροδίτης εὐκρατότεραι ἀνειμέναι πολύσοφοι ἀπολαυστικαί, “‘given to enjoyment.” For the verb cf. OG/S 6698 (i/A.D.) τὴν πόλιν ἀπολαύουσαν τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν ds ἔχει kTA., P Fay 125'°* (ii/a.p.) εὔχομαι [yap] μείζονος ἀξίας γενέσθαι [ἀφ᾽ o]d ἀπολαύομεν τῶν δώρων], “‘for I hope to be better off now that we are enjoying presents (?)” (Edd.), BGU I 24814 (ii/a.p.) τῶν ἠθῶν σου ἀπολαῦσαι, P Oxy I 418 (ili/iv A.D.) πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀπολείπω 66 ἀπολαύομεν. The sepulchral inscr., Pretsigke 2004, Avtwveive, πάντων ἀπέλουσας, must presumably mean ἀπέλαυσας. Sy// 891'®—a curious funeral inscription composed for a heathen by a proselyte, who quotes the LXX— μηδὲ καρπῶν ¢rodator. CPHerm 119 verso il6 (jii/a.D.), where Aelius Asclepiades receives ἄφεσις from public services from Gallienus ἵν]α διὰ τὴν [τῶν προγόνων] ἀρετὴν ἀπολαύσῃ τῆς ἐμῆς φιλανθρωπίας.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀπόλαυσις (apolausis) — enjoyment. ἀπό-λαυσις, εως, ἡ, act of enjoying, fruition, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἀνεύφραντος[Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II. result of enjoying, pleasure, αἱ ἀ. αἱ σωματικαί[Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ κατ᾽ ἀπόλαυσιν βίος a life of pleasure, [Refs]
II.2. with genitive, aduantage got from a thing, σίτων καὶ ποτῶν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπόλαυσιν εἰκοῦς (accusative absolutely) as a reward for your resemblance, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἀδικημάτων advantage, fruit of them, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]