Lexical Summary ousia: substance, property Original Word: οὐσίαTransliteration: ousia Phonetic Spelling: (oo-see'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: substance, property Meaning: substance, property Strong's Concordance goods, property From the feminine of on; substance, i.e. Property (possessions) -- goods, substance. see GREEK on Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3776: οὐσίαοὐσία, οὐσίας, ἡ (from ὤν, οὖσα, ὄν, the participle of εἰμί), what one has, i. e. property, possessions, estate (A. V. substance): Luke 15:12f. (Tobit 14:13; Herodotus 1, 92; Xenophon, Plato, Attic orators, others.) |