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Lexicon :: Strong's G2274 - hēttaomai

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ἡττάομαι
Transliteration
hēttaomai (Key)
Pronunciation
hayt-tah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as ἥσσων (G2276)
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Strong’s Definitions

†ἡττάω hēttáō, hayt-tah'-o; from the same as G2276; to make worse, i.e. vanquish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to rate lower:—be inferior, overcome.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G2274 in the following manner: overcome (2x), be inferior (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G2274 in the following manner: overcome (2x), be inferior (1x).

  1. to make less, inferior, to overcome

    1. to be made inferior

    2. to overcome, worsted, to be conquered by one, forced to yield to one

    3. to hold a thing inferior, set below

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†ἡττάω hēttáō, hayt-tah'-o; from the same as G2276; to make worse, i.e. vanquish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to rate lower:—be inferior, overcome.
STRONGS G2274:
ἡττάω: (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 ἥττημαι; 1 aorist ἡττήθην (ἡσσώθην, 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. manuscript, p. 90; WHs Appendix, p. 166; Buttmann, 59 (52); Veitch, under the word]); to be made inferior; to be overcome, worsted: in war, ὑπό τινος, 2 Macc. 10:24; universally, τινί [cf. Buttmann, 168 (147); Winer's Grammar, 219 (206)], to be conquered by one, forced to yield to one, 2 Peter 2:19; absolute, 2 Peter 2:20. τὶ ὑπέρ τινα, equivalent to ἥττον ἔχω τι, to hold a thing inferior, set below, [on the accusative (ὅ) cf. Buttmann § 131, 10; and on the comparitive use of ὑπέρ see ὑπέρ, II. 2 b.], 2 Corinthians 12:13.

Related entry:
ἡσσάομαι, see ἡττάω and under the entry Σ, σ, ς.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Corinthians
12:13; 12:13
2 Peter
2:19; 2:20

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2274 matches the Greek ἡττάομαι (hēttaomai),
which occurs 13 times in 11 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:9 - Know, ye Gentiles, and be conquered; hearken ye, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after ye have strengthened yourselves; for even if ye should again strengthen yourselves, ye shall again be conquered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:15 - For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:1 - The Vision of Egypt. Behold, the Lord sits on a swift cloud, and shall come to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and their heart shall faint within them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5 - And the Egyptians being defeated shall be ashamed of the Ethiopians, in whom they had trusted; for they were their glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:31 - For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke wherewith he shall smite them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:4 - For thus said the Lord to me, As a lion would roar, or a lion's whelp over prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and the animals are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath: so the Lord of hosts shall descend to fight upon the mount Sion, even upon her mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9 - for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be worsted; and he that flees shall be taken. Thus saith the Lord, Blessed is he that has a seed in Sion, and household friends in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:1 - Woe to them that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable: and he that deals perfidiously with you does not deal perfidiously: they that deal perfidiously shall be taken and given up, and as a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:7 - Hear me, ye that know judgment, the people in whose heart is my law: fear not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their contempt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:17 - I will not suffer any [fn]weapon formed against thee to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against thee for judgment, thou shalt vanquish them all; and thine adversaries shall be condemned thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and ye shall be righteous before me, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:1 - (LXX 31:1) Thus has the Lord said concerning Moab, Woe to Nabau! for it has perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.
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