STRONGS G5302:
ὑστερέω,
ὑστερῶ; 1 aorist
ὑστέρησα; perfect
ὑστέρηκα; passive, present
ὑστεροῦμαι; 1 aorist participle
ὑστερηθείς; (
ὕστερος);
1. Active, "to be
ὕστερος i. e. behind
; i. e.
a. to come late or too tardily" (so in secular authors from
Herodotus down):
Hebrews 4:1;
to be left behind in the race and so fail to reach the goal, to fall short of the end; with
ἀπό and the genitive indicating the end, metaphorically,
fail to become a partaker:
ἀπό τῆς χάριτος,
Hebrews 12:15 (others render here
fall back (i. e. away)
from; cf.
Winers Grammar, § 30, 6 b.;
Buttmann, 322f (276f) cf. § 132, 5) (
Ecclesiastes 6:2).
b. to be inferior, in power, influence, rank,
1 Corinthians 12:24 (where
L T Tr WH passive,
ὑστερουμένῳ); in virtue,
τί ἔτι ὑστερῶ; in what am I still deficient (
A. V. what lack I yet (cf.
Buttmann, § 131, 10)),
Matthew 19:20 (Sir. 51:24;
ἵνα γνῷ τί ὑστερῶ ἐγώ,
Psalm 38:5 (
Ps. 39:5);
μηδ' ἐν ἄλλῳ μηδενί μέρει ἀρετῆς ὑστερουντας,
Plato, de rep. 6, p. 484 d.);
μηδέν or
οὐδέν followed by a genitive (depending on the idea of comparison contained in the verb (
Buttmann, § 132, 22)) of the person,
to be inferior to (
A. V. to be behind)
another in nothing, 2 Corinthians 11:5;
2 Corinthians 12:11.
c. to fail, be lacking (
Dioscorides (?) 5, 86):
John 2:3 (not
Tdf.);
ἕν σοι (
T WH Tr marginal reading
σε (cf.
Buttmann, as above))
ὑστερεῖ,
Mark 10:21.
d. to be in want of, lack: with a genitive of the thing (
Winer's Grammar, § 30, 6),
Luke 22:35 (
Josephus, Antiquities 2, 2, 1).
2. Passive
to suffer want (
Winer's Grammar, 260 (244)):
Luke 15:14;
2 Corinthians 11:9 (8);
Hebrews 11:37 (Sir. 11:11); opposed to
περισσεύειν, to abound,
Philippians 4:12;
τίνος,
to be devoid (
R. V. fall short)
of, Romans 3:23 (
Diodorus 18, 71;
Josephus, Antiquities 15, 6, 7);
ἐν τίνι, to suffer want in any respect,
1 Corinthians 1:7, opposed to
πλουτίζεσθαι ἐν τίνι,
1 Corinthians 1:5;
to lack (be inferior)
in excellence, worth, opposed to
περισσεύειν (
A. V. to be the worse... the better),
1 Corinthians 8:8. (Compare:
ἀφυστερέω.)
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