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Strong's #5303 - ὑστέρημα
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- deficiency, that which is lacking
- in reference to property and resources, poverty, want, destitution
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ὑστέρ-ημα, ατος, τό,
shortcoming, deficiency, need, LXX Psalms 34:10(33).10, Luke 21:4, Corp.Herm. 13.1, etc.
ὑστέρημα, ὑστερήματος, τό (ὑστερέω);
a. deficiency, that which is lacking: plural with a genitive of the thing whose deficiency is to be filled up, Colossians 1:24 (on which see ἀνταναπληρόω, and θλῖψις under the end); 1 Thessalonians 3:10; τό ὑστέρημα with a genitive (or its equivalent) of the person, the absence of one, 1 Corinthians 16:17 (ὑμέτερον being taken objectively (Winers Grammar, § 22, 7; Buttmann, § 132, 8); others take ὑμέτερον subjectively and render that which was lacking on your part); τό ὑμῶν ὑστέρημα τῆς πρός με λειτουργίας, your absence, owing to which something was lacking in the service conferred on me (by you), Philippians 2:30.
b. in reference to property and resources, poverty, want, destitution: Luke 21:4; 2 Corinthians 8:14 (
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† ὑστέρημα , -τος , τό
(< ὑστερέω ),
[in LXX: Judges 18:10; Judges 19:19-20, Psalms 34:9 (H4270), Ecclesiastes 1:15 (H2642), Ezra 6:9 (ὑ . εἶναι , H2818) *;]
(a) that which is lacking, deficiency, shortcoming: c. gen. puss. (prop. pose.), 1 Corinthians 16:17, Philippians 2:30; c. gen. rei, Colossians 1:24, 1 Thessalonians 3:10;
(b) need, want, poverty (Psalms 34:10, Judges 18:10, al.): Luke 21:4, 2 Corinthians 9:12; 2 Corinthians 11:9; opp. to περίσσευμα , 2 Corinthians 8:13-14 (eccl.).†
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