2276. héttón
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héttón: Lesser, inferior, weaker

Original Word: ἥττων
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: héttón
Pronunciation: HAY-ton
Phonetic Spelling: (hate'-ton)
KJV: less, worse
Word Origin: [neuter of comparative of heka (slightly) used for that of G2556 (κακός - evil)]

1. worse (as noun)
2. (by implication) less (as adverb)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
less, worse.

Neuter of comparative of heka (slightly) used for that of kakos; worse (as noun); by implication, less (as adverb) -- less, worse.

see GREEK kakos

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
variant reading for héssón, q.v.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2276: ἥσσων

[ἥσσων, see ἥττων.]

STRONGS NT 2276: ἥττωνἥττων or (so L T Tr WH, see Sigma) ἥσσων, ἧσσον, inferior; neuter adverbially (from Homer down) less, 2 Corinthians 12:15; εἰς τό ἧσσον, for the worse (that ye may be made worse; opposed to εἰς τό κρεῖττον), 1 Corinthians 11:17.

Forms and Transliterations
ησσον ήσσον ἧσσον ησσόνων ήσσων ήττον ήττονες ήττους ήττων esson ēsson hesson hêsson hēsson hē̂sson
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Englishman's Concordance
1 Corinthians 11:17 Adj-ANS-C
GRK: εἰς τὸ ἧσσον συνέρχεσθε
KJV: but for the worse.
INT: for the worse you come together

2 Corinthians 12:15 Adj-ANS-C
GRK: ὑμᾶς ἀγαπῶν ἧσσον ἀγαπῶμαι
KJV: I love you, the less I be loved.
INT: you I love less I am loved

Strong's Greek 2276
2 Occurrences


ἧσσον — 2 Occ.

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