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Lexicon :: Strong's G1640 - elassōn

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ἐλάσσων
Transliteration
elassōn (Key)
Pronunciation
el-as'-sone
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Comparative of the same as ἐλάχιστος (G1646)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:648,593

Strong’s Definitions

ἐλάσσων elássōn, el-as'-sone; comparative of the same as G1646; smaller (in size, quantity, age or quality):—less, under, worse, younger.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G1640 in the following manner: worse (1x), younger (1x), under (1x), less (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G1640 in the following manner: worse (1x), younger (1x), under (1x), less (1x).

  1. less

    1. in age (younger)

    2. in rank

    3. in excellence, worse

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐλάσσων elássōn, el-as'-sone; comparative of the same as G1646; smaller (in size, quantity, age or quality):—less, under, worse, younger.
STRONGS G1640:
ἐλάσσων [in John and Romans] or -ττων [in Hebrews, 1 Timothy; cf. Buttmann, 7], -ον, (comparitive of the epic adjective ἐλαχύς equivalent to μικρός), [from Homer down], less — either in age (younger), Romans 9:12; or in rank, Hebrews 7:7; or in excellence, worse (opposed to καλός), John 2:10. Neuter ἔλαττον, adverbially, less [namely, than etc., A. V. under; cf. Winers Grammar, 239 (225); 595f, (554); Buttmann, 127f (112)]: 1 Timothy 5:9.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

John
2:10
Romans
9:12
1 Timothy
5:9
Hebrews
7:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1640 matches the Greek ἐλάσσων (elassōn),
which occurs 18 times in 17 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:16 - God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23 - The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:17 - The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:18 - And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:16 - When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:54 - To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one; each is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those listed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - The towns you give the Levites from the land the Israelites possess are to be given in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: Take many towns from a tribe that has many, but few from one that has few.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:21 - Saul answered, “But am I not a Benjamite, from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why do you say such a thing to me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:6 - “Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:7 - The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:1 - “But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:11 - Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:16 - One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:24 - “Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:20 - Therefore, hear what the LORD has planned against Edom, what he has purposed against those who live in Teman: The young of the flock will be dragged away; their pasture will be appalled at their fate.
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