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Koine Greek wordlink #53368

SR GNT Luke 15:14 ὑστερεῖσθαι (hustereisthai) ‘and he began to_be_being deficient’ Strongs=53020 Lemma=hustereō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=passive
Year=33 AD

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Other uses (2) of identical word form ὑστερεῖσθαι (V-NPP····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ὑστερεῖσθαι’ (V-NPP····) has 2 different glosses: ‘to_be_being deficient’, ‘to_be_being lacked’.

1 Cor 1:7 ‘so_as you_all not to_be_being lacked in nothing a gift’ SR GNT 1 Cor 1:7 word 4

OET-LV: 7 so _as you _all not to _be _being _lacked in nothing a_gift, eagerly _waiting the revelation of _the master of _us, Yaʸsous chosen _one /messiah, (CO1_1:7)

OET-RV: 7 so that you all aren’t missing out on any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our master Yeshua Messiah to be revealed. (CO1 1:7)

Php 4:12 ‘both to_be being_plentiful and to_be_being deficient’ SR GNT Php 4:12 word 21

OET-LV: 12 I _have _known both to _be _being _humbled, I _have _known and to _be _being _plentiful. In everything and in all things I _have _been _enlightened, both to _be _being _satisfied and to _be _hungering, both to _be _being _plentiful and to _be _being _deficient. (PHP_4:12)

OET-RV: 12 I’ve experienced being humbled with little, and I’ve experienced having plenty, but I’ve grown through every one of those experiences, sometimes being satisfied and sometimes hungry, sometimes having plenty and other times not enough. (PHP 4:12)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘hustereō’ have 14 different glosses: ‘are_being fallen_short’, ‘being deficient’, ‘having been_deficient’, ‘having_been deficient’, ‘is lacking’, ‘to_be_being deficient’, ‘to_be_being lacked’, ‘to_have been_deficient’, ‘to_have falling_short’, ‘I am lacking’, ‘I being_deficient’, ‘we are_being deficient’, ‘you_all lacked’, ‘falling_short’.

Greek words (4) other than ὑστερεῖσθαι (V-NPP····) with a gloss related to ‘deficient’

1 COR 8:8 ὑστερούμεθα (husteroumetha) V-IPP1··P ‘nor if we may eat we are_being deficient’ SR GNT 1 Cor 8:8 word 23

OET-LV: 8 But food us not will _be _presenting to_ the _god, neither if not we _may _eat, we _are _being _deficient. nor if we _may _eat, we _are _being _plentiful, (CO1_8:8)

OET-RV: 8 But food doesn’t bring us closer to God—what we eat makes us no better or worse off spiritually. (CO1 8:8)

1 COR 12:24 ὑστερουμένῳ (husteroumenōi) V-PPP·DNS ‘the body to the members being deficient more_abundant having given honour’ SR GNT 1 Cor 12:24 word 17

OET-LV: 24 and the the_prominent of _us, no need is _having. But the god united _together the body, to _the members being _deficient, more _abundant having _given honour, (CO1_12:24)

OET-RV: 24 Our presentable parts don’t have any need for that, but rather God has put the body together and he gave greater honour to the lesser parts (CO1 12:24)

2 COR 11:9 ὑστερηθείς (husteraʸtheis) V-PAP·NMS ‘with you_all and having_been deficient not I burdened of no_one’ SR GNT 2 Cor 11:9 word 6

OET-LV: 9 and being _present with you _all and having _been _deficient, not I _burdened of _no _one, because/for the need of _me replenishing the brothers having _come from Makedonia, and in everything unburdensome myself to _you _all I _kept and I _will _be _keeping. (CO2_11:9)

OET-RV: 9 and when I was with you and needed something, I wasn’t a burden to anyone, because the believers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. Thus I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will keep doing so. (CO2 11:9)

HEB 11:37 ὑστερούμενοι (husteroumenoi) V-PPP·NMP ‘in goat skins being deficient being oppressed being mistreated’ SR GNT Heb 11:37 word 15

OET-LV: 37 They _were _stoned, they _were _sawn, they _were _tempted, by murder sword they _died _off, they _went _around in sheepskins, in goat skins, being _deficient, being _oppressed, being _mistreated, (HEB_11:37)

OET-RV: 37 They had rocks thrown at them to kill them, they were sawn in half, they were tempted, they were killed with swords. Living in poverty, they went around in skins of goats and sheep, and were mistreated by others. (HEB 11:37)

Key: V=verb