noun · neuter
hēttēmem
Strong’sG2275
a defeat, failure
stem hēttēm-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 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.
† ἥττημα, -τος, τό,
[in LXX for מַס, Is 31:9(8)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2275 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhayt'-tay-mah
a deterioration, i.e. (objectively) failure or (subjectively) loss
Fromfrom G2274;
King Jamesdiminishing, fault.
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
discomfiture, LXX; loss, NT: ἥττησις, εως, ἡ, = {ἧττα}, Refs
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.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | hēttēmem2×ἥττημα | hēttēmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | hēttēmeu | hēttēmeiu |
| to, for dative | hēttēme | hēttēmei |
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
hēttēme 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
hēttēmem“defeat”subject or objectdirect singular2×
Romans 11:12… paraptōmem autoiu ploutos kosmou kai tem hēttēmem autoiu ploutos ethneiu, pose mallon tem …… riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how …
1 Corinthians 6:7“defeat”ēdē men oun holōs hēttēmem vi atō hoti krimeim echavō meta …… that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not …