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Strong's #1641 - ἐλαττονέω
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- to be less, inferior, (in possessions)
- to make less, diminish
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ἐλαττον-έω,
1. receive less, LXX Exodus 16:18; but, give less, ib. 30.15.
2. waste, be consumed, ib. 1 Kings 17:16; to be missing, defective, PMagd. 26.12 (iii A.D.).
3. Med., lack, want, ib.11.22.
ἐλαττονέω (Buttmann, 7), ἐλαττόνω: 1 aorist ἠλαττόνησα; (ἔλαττον); not found in secular authors (yet see Aristotle, de plant. 2, 3, p. 825a, 23); to be less, inferior (in possessions): 2 Corinthians 8:15 from Exodus 16:18. (Proverbs 11:24; Sir. 19:6 (Sir. 19:5); also transitively, to make less, diminish: Genesis 8:3; Proverbs 14:34; 2 Macc. 13:19, etc.)
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† ἐλαττονέω , -ῶ
(< ἔλαττον ),
[in LXX (with -όω ) chiefly for H2637;]
to be less (RV, had no lack): 2 Corinthians 8:15 (LXX) (a rare word; cf. MM, Exp., xii).†
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Grimm’s statement that this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (2 Corinthians 8:15 from LXX Exodus 16:18) is ";not found in prof. auth."; requires correction, in view not only of Aristot. de plant. 2, 3 p. 825a, 23 (as Thayer), but of P Magd 26.12 (B.C. 217) ἐπαναγκάσαι αὐτὸν ἀπο ̣δ ̣ο ̣υ ̣̑να ̣ι ̣ . . .. τὸ διάφορον τῶν ἐλαττονούντων ιδ ̄ κεραμίων, cf. .9, and the illiterate BGU IV. 1195.19 (c. B.C. 10) ἐλατωνῖ, apparently = ἐλαττονεῖ.
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