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.
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