Quick Definition
ἡττάομαι v. I am defeated, made inferior
Strong's Definition
from the same as 2276; to make worse, i.e. vanquish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to rate lower
KJV Usage: be inferior, overcome
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb
88.134 · (ἑσσόομαι) · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Treat Badly
to be treated worse, to suffer more to experience worse treatment
39.61 · (ἡττάομαι) · Hostility, Strife · Conquer
to be defeated, to be conquered, to be controlled by to experience defeat and subjection In a number of languages ‘to be defeated’ is simply ‘to be conquered.’ In some instances this is expressed as ‘to become the prisoner of’ or idiomatically ‘to be led away by.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἡττάω: (ἥττων); to make less, inferior, to overcome (the Act. only in Polyb., Diod., Joseph. antt. 12, 7, 1 [other exx. in Veitch 5. v.]); Pass. ἡττάομαι, fr. [Soph. and] Hdt. down; pf. ἥττημαι; 1 aor. ἡττήθην (ἡσσώθην, 2 Co. xii. 18 LT Tr WH; in opp. to which form cf. Fritzsche, De conform. N. T. crit. quam Lehm. ed. p. 32 [yet see Kuenen and Cobet, N. T. ad Πα. cod. Vat. p. xe.; WH. App. p. 166; B. 59 (52); Veitch s.v.]); to be made inferior; to be overcome, worsted: in war, ὑπό τινος, 2 Mace. x. 24; univ., τινί [cf. B. 168 (147); W. 219 (206) ], to be conquered by one, forced to yield to one, 2 Pet. ii. 19; absol. ib. 20. τὶ ὑπέρ twa, i. q. ἧττον ἔχω tt, to hold a thing inferior, set below, [on the ace. (6) ef. B. § 131, 10; and on the compar. use of ὑπέρ see ὑπέρ, Il. 2 b.], 2 Co. xii. 18.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἡττάομαι hēttaomai 2x
to be less, inferior to; to fare worse; by impl. to be overcome, vanquished, 2 Pet. 2:19, 20*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἡττάω, -ῶ
(ἡσσ-, II Co 12:13, v.s. ἥσσων), [in LXX for חתת, etc.;] pass.,
to be inferior: seq. ὑπέρ, II Co 12:13.
to be overcome: absol., II Pe 2:20; c. dat., II Pe 2:19.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἡττάομαι. For this form in --ττ--, which is read in the NT in 2 Pet 219f. (for the LXX see Thackeray Gr. i. p. 121f.), cf. PSI IV. 3407 (B.C. 257-6) οὐκ ἑττηθήσεσθε (1. ἧττ-) ὑπὸ ἀνθρώπου ἀνελευθέρου, and the interesting report of a Jewish uprising in an Egyptian village during the reign of Hadrian, Chrest. 1. 167, when the writer admits—ot ἡμέ[τ]ερο[ι] ἡττ[ἤ]θησαν καὶ πολλοὶ [α]ὐτῶν συνεκόπίησαν. In P Hal 1. 154,115 (mid. iii/B.c.) we have ἥσσηθῆι twice: cf. 2 Cor 1213 where ἡσσώθητε (from Ionic ἑσσοῦσθαι) is read in N* BD*. See further Wackernagel He//enzstica, p. 12 ff., where it is shown that Hellenistic writers have retained —rr- in certain words which were taken over directly from Attic and were not current in another form in the Kow7,
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἡσσάομαι (hēssaomai) — be lesser. ἡσσ-άομαι, Attic dialect ἡττ-, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: future ἡσσηθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]future middle ἡττήσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἡσσήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἥσσημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἥττητο [Refs 4th c.BC+]: Ionic dialect ἑσσόομαι, participle ἑσσούμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+]imperfect ἑσσοῦτο (without augment) [Refs]: aorist ἑσσώθην [Refs]: perfect ἕσσωμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+]: (ἥσσων):—to be less or weaker than, inferior to, with genitive person, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive person et participle, ἡττᾶσθαί τινος εὖ ποιοῦντος [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.: with genitive of things, τὸ μὴ δίκαιον τῆς δίκης -ώμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+] adjective in accusative, ὃ ἡττῷτο wherein he had proved inferior, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. as a real passive, to be defeated, discomfited, ὑπό τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπ᾽ ἔρωτος, ὑπ᾽ ἔχθρας, [Refs 5th c.BC+] to be broken in spirit, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν γνώμην αὐτῶν οὐχ ἡσσῆσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. as law-term, to be cast in a suit, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; δίκην, παραγραφήν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. give way, yield, with genitive person, οἱ φύσαντες ἡσσῶνται τέκνων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; give way, be a slave to passion and the like, νηδύος ἡσσημένος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; [χρημάτων] [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive person, to be in love with.. , [Refs 1st c.AD+]; of other things, ἡττ. τοῦ ὕδατος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ δικαίου[Refs 4th c.BC+]
5. with dative, to be overcome by.. , ἀκοῆς ἡδονῇ ἡσσώμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. later in active ἡττάω, overcome, τινα [Refs 1st c.AD+]: aorist 1 ἥττησα, τὰς ψυχὰς τῶν ὑπεναντίων [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; defeat, τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἀπὸ κράτους ἡττηκότες [Refs 1st c.BC+]