hēssōnem

Strong’sG2276

lesser, inferior, weaker

stem hēssōn-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books0 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἥσσων (Rec. ἥττ-, the Attic literary form), ἧσσον,

inferior, less; neut., τὸ ἧ., adverbially, less: II Co 12:15; εἰς τὸ ἧ., for the worse (opp. to κρεῖττον): I Co 11:17.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2276 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhate'-ton

worse (as noun); by implication, less (as adverb)

Fromneuter of comparative of ἧκα (slightly) used for that of G2556;

King Jamesless, worse.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἥσσων,
ἧσσον, genitive ονος; Attic dialect ἥττων, Ionic dialect ἥσσων (not ἕσσων) Refs 5th c.BC+:
I with genitive person, inferior; especially in force, weaker, αἴθ᾽ ὅσον ἥ. εἰμὶ τόσον σέο φέρτερος εἴην Refs 8th c.BC+; of horses, Refs; ῥώμῃ ἥσσονες τῶν Περσέων Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔς τι in a thing, Refs 5th c.BC+infinitive modi, ἥσς. τινὸς θέειν not so good at running, Refs; οὐδενὸς ἥσς. γνῶναι second to none in judging, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἱππεύειν ἥττ. τῶν ἡλίκων inferior to them in riding, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2 absolutely, οἱ ἥσς. the weaker party, Refs 4th c.BC+; οὐχ ἥσσους γενέσθαι to have the best of it, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ λαμβάνειν τὰ τῶν ἡττ. Refs 5th c.BC+; of things, τὸν ἥττω λόγον κρείττω ποιεῖν 'to make the worse appear the better cause', Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2.b less, fewer, ἵνα πλείω μὲν ἀκούωμεν, ἥττονα δὲ λέγωμεν Refs 4th c.BC+
II with genitive of things, giving way or yielding to a thing, a slave to.. , τοῦ τῆσδ᾽ ἔρωτος εἰς ἅπανθ᾽ ἥσς. Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, unable to resist, τοῦ πεπρωμένου Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ ἥττους τῶν πόνων [ἵπποι] Refs 5th c.BC+
III neuter ἧσσον, ἧττον, as adverb, less, ὀλίγον δέ τί μ᾽ ἧσς. ἐτίμα Refs 8th c.BC+; ὁμοίως τε τρωθεὶς καὶ ἧσς. Hp.[same place]: mostly with Verbs, but also with adjectives, ἀριστοκρατίαι.. αἱ μὲν ἧττ., αἱ δὲ μᾶλλον μόνιμοι Refs 4th c.BC+: with a comparative, ἧττ. ἀκριβέστερον Refs 1st c.BC+., not a whit less, just as much, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐδὲν ἧσς., μηδὲν ἧσς., Refs 5th c.BC+; for τὸ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττ., see at {μάλα}.

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

less1×worse1×

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Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	hēssōnos	hēssōnas	hēssōnem	hēssōnois	hēssōnais	hēssōneim
object accusative	hēssōnon	hēssōnan		hēssōnoin	hēssōnain
direct address vocative	hēssōnor	hēssōnar		hēssōnoir	hēssōnair
of, belonging to genitive	hēssōnou	hēssōnau	hēssōneu	hēssōnoiu	hēssōnaiu	hēssōneiu
to, for dative	hēssōno	hēssōna	hēssōne	hēssōnoi	hēssōnai	hēssōnei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

hēssōnstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

hēssōn is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

hēssōnem2×

1 Corinthians 11:17“worse”… eis tem kreittonem alla eis tem hēssōnem sunerchovō.In the following instructions …

2 Corinthians 12:15… psuchaiu vu. ei perissoterōs vin agaparōntos, hēssōnem agapomō?… you more, will you love me less?