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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

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Strong's Number G2274 matches the Greek ἡττάομαι (hēttaomai),
which occurs 3 times in 3 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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