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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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ἐλάσσων

Strong’s: G1640

Associated OET lemmas: ἐλάσσων · ἐλάττων

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: ἐλάσσων; -ον

Related lemmas: ἐλαττόω

Sense 1: few, less

Semantic entry: 59.3

Semantic domains: Quantity

Subdomains: Many, Few [Countables]

Definition: a relatively small quantity on any dimension

TI1 5:9: RV TI1 5:9 · LV TI1 5:9 · Read together TI1 5:9

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OET-RV TI1 5:9

9 The assembly should enrol a widow if she’s at least sixty years old and was the wife of a single husband.

OET-LV TI1 5:9

9 ˓Let˒_ a_widow _be_being_enrolled having_become not lessor than sixty years, the_wife of_one husband,

Sense 2: lesser

Semantic entry: 87.67

Semantic domains: Status

Subdomains: Low Status or Rank [including persons of low status]

Definition: pertaining to being of less status than something else

JHN 2:10: RV JHN 2:10 · LV JHN 2:10 · Read together JHN 2:10

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OET-RV JHN 2:10

10 and exclaimed, “Most people supply the best wine at the beginning of the reception, and the cheaper stuff when people are a bit tipsy. But you’ve kept the best wine until last!”

OET-LV JHN 2:10

10 and he_is_saying to_him:
Every person is_presenting first the good wine, and the lessor whenever they_may_be_being_drunk, you have_kept the good wine until now.

HEB 7:7: RV HEB 7:7 · LV HEB 7:7 · Read together HEB 7:7

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OET-RV HEB 7:7

7 There’s no doubt that it’s the lessor person that gets blessed by someone greater.

OET-LV HEB 7:7

7 But apart_from from_all controversy, the lessor by the better is_being_blessed.

Sense 3: young, younger

Semantic entry: 67.116

Semantic domains: Time

Subdomains: Duration of Time without Reference to Points or Units of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young

Definition: pertaining to a living being who is relatively young, often the younger of two objects

ROM 9:12: RV ROM 9:12 · LV ROM 9:12 · Read together ROM 9:12

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OET-RV ROM 9:12

12 (not as a result of effort, but by God’s announcement), she was told, ‘The older child will serve the younger one.’

OET-LV ROM 9:12

12 not of works, but of the one calling, it_was_said to_her, that The greater will_be_serving for_the lessor.