ἀποτομία, ἀποτομιας, ἡ (the nature of that which is ἀπότομος, cut off, abrupt, precipitous like a cliff, rough; from ἀποτέμνω), properly, sharpness (differing from ἀποτομή a cutting off, a segment); severity, roughness, rigor: Rom_11:22 (where opposed to χρηστότης, as in Plutarch, de book educ. c. 18 to πραότης, in Dionysius Halicarnassus 8, 61 to τό ἐπιεικές, and in Diodorus, p. 591 (except 83 (fragment 50:32, 27, 3 Dindorf)) to ἡμερότης).

ἀποτομία apotomia 2x pr. abruptness; met. severity, rigor, Rom_11:22 (2x)

**† ἀποτομία , -ας , ἡ ( < ἀποτέμνω , to cut of), [in Sm .: Jer_51:35 , Nah_3:1 * ;] steepness, sharpness; metaph ., severity ( MM , s.v. ): Rom_11:22 .†

ἀποτομία [page 71] A rather curious use of the noun occurs in BGU IV. 1208 i. 17 (B.C. 27) τ ]ὴν ἀποτομίαν τῆς ἀναβάσεως (the inundation of the Nile). P Oxy II. 237 vii. 40 (A.D. 186) παρ᾽ οἷς ἄκρατός ἐστιν ἡ τῶν ν [ό ]μων ἀποτομ̣[ί ]α , amongst whom the severity of the law is untempered (Edd.). Counsel is pleading a native statute, admittedly harsh, which he claims was enforced rigidly : the word does not suggest straining a statute, but simply exacting its provisions to the full. Wilcken ( Archiv iii. p. 303) compares with this passage BGU IV. 1024 v. 18 (iv/v A.D. a collection of judgements in capital cases), where he reads ἐνόμισας λανθάνειν τ [ὴ ]ν νόμων (he would emend τῶν ν .) ἀπο [τ ]ομίαν καὶ τὴν τοῦ δικάζοντος ἐξουσίαν . Cf. Plutarch De liberis educ. 18 (p. 13D) δεῖ τοὺς πατέρας τὴν τῶν ἐπιτιμημάτων ἀποτομίαν τῇ πρᾳότητι μιγνύναι . A further literary citation may illustrate the harsher side of the word Demetrius De : Eloc. 292 (ed. Roberts) κατὰ Φαλάριδος τοῦ τυράννου ἐροῦμεν καὶ τῆς Φαλάριδος ἀποτομίας , we shall inveigh against the tyrant Phalaris and his cruelty.

ἀποτομία, -ας, ἡ (ἀποτέμνω, to cut of), [in Sm.: Jer.51:35, Nam.3:1 * ;] steepness, sharpness; metaphorically, severity (MM, see word): Rom.11:22.† (AS)