Strong's Greek: 2274. ἡττάω (héttaomai) -- to be inferior

Strong's Concordance

héttaomai: to be inferior

Original Word: ἡττάομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: héttaomai
Phonetic Spelling: (hayt-tah'-o)
Short Definition: I am defeated, made inferior
Definition: I am defeated, am overcome, am made inferior.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 2274: ἡσσάομαι

ἡσσάομαι, see ἡττάω and under the word Sigma.

STRONGS NT 2274: ἡττάωἡττάω: (ἥττων); to make less, inferior, to overcome (the active is only in Polybius, Diodorus, Josephus, Antiquities 12, 7, 1 (other examples in Veitch, under the word)); passive ἡττάομαι, from (Sophocles and) Herodotus down; perfect ή῾ττημαι; 1 aorist ἡττήθην (ἡσσωθην, 2 Corinthians 12:13 L T Tr WH; in opposed to which form cf. Fritzsche, De conform. N. T. crit. quam Lachmann edition, p. 32 (yet see Kuenen and Cobet, N. T. ad fid. Vat., p. xc.; WHs Appendix, p. 166; Buttmann, 59 (52); Veitch, under the word)); to be made inferior; to be overcome, worsted: in war, ὑπό τίνος, 2 Macc. 10:24; universally, τίνι (cf. Buttmann, 168 (147); Winer's Grammar, 219 (206)), to be conquered by one, forced to yield to one, 2 Peter 2:19; absolutely, 2 Peter 2:20. τί ὑπέρ τινα, equivalent to ἧττον ἔχω τί, to hold a thing inferior, set below (on the accusative (ὁ) cf. Buttmann, § 131, 10; and on the comparitive use of ὑπέρ see ὑπέρ, II. 2 b.), 2 Corinthians 12:13.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

be inferior, overcome.

From the same as hetton; to make worse, i.e. Vanquish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to rate lower -- be inferior, overcome.

see GREEK hetton

Forms and Transliterations

ησσωθητε ἡσσώθητε ηττάσθε ηττηθέντες ηττήθη ηττήθησαν ηττηθήσεσθε ηττηθήσεται ηττηθήσονται ηττήθητε ηττήσεις ηττηται ήττηται ἥττηται ηττωνται ηττώνται ἡττῶνται essothete ēssōthēte ettetai ēttētai ettontai ēttōntai hessothete hessṓthete hēssōthēte hēssṓthēte hettetai hēttētai hḗttetai hḗttētai hettontai hettôntai hēttōntai hēttō̂ntai

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