ἥττον
hḗtton · G2276 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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less, to a lesser degree
A degree which is lower than what would be expected in the context
Examples2 Corinthians 12:15 I will most gladly spend and be expended for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
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worse
Pertaining to being less satisfactory than something else
Examples1 Corinthians 11:17 Now in giving this next instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better, but for the worse.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 1
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Worse65.29
- In 1 Corinthians 11:17, Paul tells the Corinthians, “you come together not for the better, but for the worse,” using this word for a comparative degree of a negative quality.
- Less, to a lesser degree78.38
- In 2 Corinthians 12:15, Paul asks the Corinthians, “If I love you more, am I to be loved less?” using this word for something done or felt to a lesser degree.
Word family 20 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon [, see ἥττων.] G2276 — ἥττων or (so L T Tr WH, see Sigma) ἥσσων, ἧσσον, inferior; neuter…
G2276 — ἥττων
or (so L T Tr WH, see Sigma) ἥσσων, ἧσσον, inferior; neuter adverbially (from Homer down) less, 2 Cor 12:15; εἰς τό ἧσσον, for the worse (that ye may be made worse; opposed to εἰς τό κρεῖττον), 1 Cor 11:17.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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