Strong G2274ἡσσάομαι
be lesser
- Transliteration
- hēttaō
- Pronunciation
- hayt-tah'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From the same as G2276; to make worse that is vanquish (literally or figuratively); by implication to rate lower: - be inferior overcome.
Detailed definition
ἡττάω, -ῶ
(ἡσσ-, 2Co.12:13, see: ἥσσων) [in LXX for חָתַת, etc.;]
pass.,
1. to be inferior: before ὑπέρ, 2Co.12:13.
2. to be overcome: absol., 2Pe.2:20; with dative, 2Pe.2:19.†
(AS)
(ἡσσ-, 2Co.12:13, see: ἥσσων) [in LXX for חָתַת, etc.;]
pass.,
1. to be inferior: before ὑπέρ, 2Co.12:13.
2. to be overcome: absol., 2Pe.2:20; with dative, 2Pe.2:19.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2274 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- overcome2
- inferior1
First verses
- 2 Corinthians 12:13For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
- 2 Peter 2:19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
- 2 Peter 2:20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἡσσ-άομαι,
Attic dialect ἡττ-, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 936, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.57)]: future ἡσσηθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 727, 976, ἡττ- 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.32, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.42:)]future middle ἡττήσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (in _passive_ sense, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 28.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.23)]: aorist ἡσσήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 917, etc.)]: perfect ἥσσημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1242, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 697)]: pluperfect ἥττητο [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.160)]: Ionic dialect ἑσσόομαι, participle ἑσσούμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.82:)]imperfect ἑσσοῦτο (without augment) [Refs ([prev. author] 7.166, 8.75)]: aorist ἑσσώθην [Refs ([prev. author] 2.169, etc.)]: perfect ἕσσωμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 8.130 (and variant in 7.9.β), 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 8.19)]: (ἥσσων):—to be less or weaker than, inferior to, with genitive person, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 697)]: with genitive person et participle, ἡττᾶσθαί τινος εὖ ποιοῦντος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.23, compare “Cyr.” 5.4.32; ἡττᾶσθαί τινός τινι [prev. work] 8.2.13; ἔν τινι in a thing, [prev. work] 3.3.42)], etc.: with genitive of things, τὸ μὴ δίκαιον τῆς δίκης -ώμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1117: with _neuter_)] adjective in accusative, ὃ ἡττῷτο wherein he had proved inferior, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.5.)]
2 as a real passive, to be defeated, discomfited, ὑπό τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.106, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.28, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.39)]; ὑπ᾽ ἔρωτος, ὑπ᾽ ἔχθρας, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 233c, “Plt.” 305c, etc.; πρὸς τἀφροδίσια [prev. author] “Lg.” 650a: with _genitive_ _person_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1252, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 70, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.57, etc.: with _genitive_ _of things_, τοῦ κόπου γὰρ ἕσσωμαι 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus [same place]: with _dative_ modi, ἑσσωθῆναι μάχῃ ὑπό τινων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.46, etc.; τοῖς ὅλοις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.64, etc.; also with _accusative_, μάχην 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.47, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.320; ἀγῶνα 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 63.9: with _dative_, τῷ θυμῷ)] to be broken in spirit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.130; ἑσσωθέντες τῇ γνώμῃ πρὸς Κύρου [prev. author] 9.122; ἡ. περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 239b: _absolutely_, οἱ ἡσσώμενοι, opposed to οἱ κρατοῦντες, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 516, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.β)]; τὴν γνώμην αὐτῶν οὐχ ἡσσῆσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.72.)]
3 as law-term, to be cast in a suit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1242, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 482, etc.; ἡττ. ἐν τοῖς δικαστηρίοις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.417)]; δίκην, παραγραφήν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 880c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.51.)]
4 give way, yield, with genitive person, οἱ φύσαντες ἡσσῶνται τέκνων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 936; εἰ παθών γε σοῦ τάδ᾽ ἡσσηθήσομαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 976)]; give way, be a slave to passion and the like, νηδύος ἡσσημένος [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 282.5; τοῦ παρόντος δεινοῦ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.37; τῶν φόβων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 635d; ἡδονῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 5.1; ὕπνου [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.5.11)]; [χρημάτων] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 28.9; τῆς τούτων παρασκευῆς [prev. work] 11; θνητοῦ κάλλους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.60; πικροῦ ἔρωτος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 727)]: with genitive person, to be in love with.. , [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.771f)]; of other things, ἡττ. τοῦ ὕδατος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.5)]; τοῦ δικαίου[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 5.4.31; τῆς ἀληθείας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.273; τὸ δίκαιον ἡττ. τοῦ φθόνου 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.75.)]
5 with dative, to be overcome by.. , ἀκοῆς ἡδονῇ ἡσσώμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38, compare 7.25; ὕπνῳ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 13.22; τοῖς δικαίοις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 16.)]
II later in active ἡττάω, overcome, τινα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 9, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.22.6, +others)]: aorist 1 ἥττησα, τὰς ψυχὰς τῶν ὑπεναντίων [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.75.3; ταῖς ψυχαῖς τοὺς ὑπεναντίους [prev. author] 3.18.5, cf. Heraclitus Paradoxographus “de incredibilibus - Mythographi Graeci” 16)]; defeat, τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἀπὸ κράτους ἡττηκότες [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 15.87.)]
Attic dialect ἡττ-, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 936, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.57)]: future ἡσσηθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 727, 976, ἡττ- 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.32, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.42:)]future middle ἡττήσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (in _passive_ sense, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 28.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.23)]: aorist ἡσσήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 917, etc.)]: perfect ἥσσημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1242, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 697)]: pluperfect ἥττητο [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.160)]: Ionic dialect ἑσσόομαι, participle ἑσσούμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.82:)]imperfect ἑσσοῦτο (without augment) [Refs ([prev. author] 7.166, 8.75)]: aorist ἑσσώθην [Refs ([prev. author] 2.169, etc.)]: perfect ἕσσωμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 8.130 (and variant in 7.9.β), 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 8.19)]: (ἥσσων):—to be less or weaker than, inferior to, with genitive person, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 697)]: with genitive person et participle, ἡττᾶσθαί τινος εὖ ποιοῦντος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.23, compare “Cyr.” 5.4.32; ἡττᾶσθαί τινός τινι [prev. work] 8.2.13; ἔν τινι in a thing, [prev. work] 3.3.42)], etc.: with genitive of things, τὸ μὴ δίκαιον τῆς δίκης -ώμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1117: with _neuter_)] adjective in accusative, ὃ ἡττῷτο wherein he had proved inferior, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.5.)]
2 as a real passive, to be defeated, discomfited, ὑπό τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.106, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.28, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.39)]; ὑπ᾽ ἔρωτος, ὑπ᾽ ἔχθρας, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 233c, “Plt.” 305c, etc.; πρὸς τἀφροδίσια [prev. author] “Lg.” 650a: with _genitive_ _person_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1252, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 70, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.57, etc.: with _genitive_ _of things_, τοῦ κόπου γὰρ ἕσσωμαι 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus [same place]: with _dative_ modi, ἑσσωθῆναι μάχῃ ὑπό τινων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.46, etc.; τοῖς ὅλοις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.64, etc.; also with _accusative_, μάχην 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.47, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.320; ἀγῶνα 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 63.9: with _dative_, τῷ θυμῷ)] to be broken in spirit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.130; ἑσσωθέντες τῇ γνώμῃ πρὸς Κύρου [prev. author] 9.122; ἡ. περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 239b: _absolutely_, οἱ ἡσσώμενοι, opposed to οἱ κρατοῦντες, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 516, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.β)]; τὴν γνώμην αὐτῶν οὐχ ἡσσῆσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.72.)]
3 as law-term, to be cast in a suit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1242, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 482, etc.; ἡττ. ἐν τοῖς δικαστηρίοις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.417)]; δίκην, παραγραφήν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 880c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.51.)]
4 give way, yield, with genitive person, οἱ φύσαντες ἡσσῶνται τέκνων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 936; εἰ παθών γε σοῦ τάδ᾽ ἡσσηθήσομαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 976)]; give way, be a slave to passion and the like, νηδύος ἡσσημένος [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 282.5; τοῦ παρόντος δεινοῦ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.37; τῶν φόβων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 635d; ἡδονῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 5.1; ὕπνου [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.5.11)]; [χρημάτων] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 28.9; τῆς τούτων παρασκευῆς [prev. work] 11; θνητοῦ κάλλους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.60; πικροῦ ἔρωτος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 727)]: with genitive person, to be in love with.. , [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.771f)]; of other things, ἡττ. τοῦ ὕδατος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.5)]; τοῦ δικαίου[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 5.4.31; τῆς ἀληθείας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.273; τὸ δίκαιον ἡττ. τοῦ φθόνου 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.75.)]
5 with dative, to be overcome by.. , ἀκοῆς ἡδονῇ ἡσσώμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.38, compare 7.25; ὕπνῳ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 13.22; τοῖς δικαίοις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 16.)]
II later in active ἡττάω, overcome, τινα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 9, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.22.6, +others)]: aorist 1 ἥττησα, τὰς ψυχὰς τῶν ὑπεναντίων [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.75.3; ταῖς ψυχαῖς τοὺς ὑπεναντίους [prev. author] 3.18.5, cf. Heraclitus Paradoxographus “de incredibilibus - Mythographi Graeci” 16)]; defeat, τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἀπὸ κράτους ἡττηκότες [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 15.87.)]