Quick Definition
ἀποτομία, ας, ἡ n.f. harshness, severity
Strong's Definition
(figuratively) decisiveness, i.e. rigor
Derivation: from the base of G664 (ἀποτόμως);
KJV Usage: severity
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀποτομία, -as, 7, (the nature of that which is ἀπότομος, cut off, abrupt, precipitous like a cliff, rough; fr. ἀποτέμνω), prop. sharpness, (differing fr. ἀποτομή a cutting off, a segment); severity, roughness, rigor: Ro. xi. 22 (where opp. to χρηστότης, as in Plut. de lib. edue. c. 18 to πραότης, in Dion. Hal. 8, 61 to τὸ ἐπιεικές, and in Diod. p- 591 [exept. Ixxxiii. (frag. 1. 32, 27, 3 Dind.)] to jpeporns).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀποτομία apotomia 2x
pr. abruptness; met. severity, rigor, Rom. 11:22 (2x)*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
**† ἀποτομία, -ας, ἡ
(< ἀποτέμνω, to cut of), [in Sm.: Je 51 (28):35, Na 3:1*;]
steepness, sharpness; metaph., severity (MM, s.v.): Ro 11:22.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀποτομία. A rather curious use of the noun occurs in BGU ΙΝ. τφοϑὲ. 17 (B.C. 27) τ]ὴν ἀποτομίαν τῆς ἀναβάσεως (the inundation of 1 Y Mi απουσια the Nile). P Oxy II. 237%! 40 (a.p. 186) παρ᾽ οἷς ἄκρατός ἐστιν 7 τῶν ν[ὄμων ἀποτομ[(]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 ili. p. 303) compares with this passage BGU IV. 1024.8 (iv/v A.D.—a collection of judgements in capital cases), where he reads évépicas λανθάνειν τὴ]ν νόμων (he would emend τῶν Vv.) ἀπο[τ]ομίαν καὶ τὴν τοῦ δικάζοντος ἐξουσίαν. Cf. Plutarch De /éderis educ. 18 (p. 13D) δεῖ τοὺς πατέρας τὴν TOV ἐπιτιμημάτων ἀποτομίαν TH πρᾳότητι μιγνύναι. A further literary citation may illustrate the harsher side of the word—Demetrius De Z/oc. 292 (ed. Roberts) kata Φαλάριδος τοῦ τυράννου ἐροῦμεν καὶ τῆς Φαλάριδος ἀποτομίας, “we shall inveigh against the tyrant Phalaris and cruelty.” his
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀποτομία (apotomia) — severity. ἀποτομ-ία, ἡ, severity, νόμων[Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἐπιτιμημάτων[Refs 4th c.BC+]; of tortures, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II. cutting off, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
III. sheer madness, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]