ἀπολογία

ἀπολογία — apología

ἀπολογία, ἀπολογίας, ἡ (see ἀπολογέομαι), verbal defense, speech in defense: Act 25:16; 2Co 7:11; Php 1:7; Php 1:17 (16); 2Ti 4:16; with a dative of the person who is to hear the defense, to whom one labors to excuse or to make good his cause: 1Co 9:3; 1Pe 3:15; in the same sense, ἡ ἀπολογία ἡ πρός τινα, Act 22:1 (Xenophon, mem. 4, 8, 5).