Forfeit
Forfeit
forfit (, haram): Forfeit (from forisfacere, to act beyond) implies loss through transgression or non-observance of some law or rule. The word occurs only once as the translation of haram, to shut in, frequently to devote or consecrate a person or thing to God beyond redemption (compare Lev 27:28, Lev 27:29; Mic 4:13; Ezr 10:8, That whosoever came not within three days,… all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity, King James Version margin, the American Revised Version, margin and the Revised Version (British and American) devoted; compare 1 Esdras 9:4, Their cattle should be seized to the use of the temple (anieroo, to consecrate, devote); 6:32, all his goods seized for the king (ta huparchonia autou enai eis’ basilika’).
The Revised Version (British and American) has forfeited (kadhesh, consecrated, devoted) for defiled (Deu 22:9), margin Hebrew consecrated; forfeit his life for lose his own soul (psuche) (Mat 16:26; Mar 8:36); lose or forfeit his own self for lose himself or be cast away (Luk 9:25, heauton de apolesas e zemiothes; zemioo is the Septuagint for anash, to be mulcted, or fined, Exo 21:22; Deu 22:19; Pro 17:26 m; Pro 19:19; Pro 21:11; Pro 22:3); Weymouth renders Luk 9:25, to have lost or forfeited his own self (or had to pay his own self – his own existence – as a fine); in the other instances of zemioo (1Co 3:15; Phi 3:8), the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) render suffer loss, suffered … loss; 2Co 7:9 the King James Version, receive damage.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Forfeit
in the Active Voice, signifies “to damage;” in the Passive, “to suffer loss, forfeit,” Mat 16:26; Mar 8:36, of the “life,” RV; AV, and RV marg., “soul;” in each place the RV has “forfeit,” for AV, “lose;” Luk 9:25, “his own self” (RV. “forfeit,” AV, “be cast away;” here the preceding word “lose” translates apollumi, “to destroy”). What is in view here is the act of “forfeiting” what is of the greatest value, not the casting away by Divine judgment, though that is involved, but losing or penalizing one’s own self, with spiritual and eternal loss. The word is also used in 1Co 3:15; 2Co 7:9; Phi 3:8. See CAST, LOSE, LOSS (suffer).