ἥσσων
less, weaker, inferior
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἥσσων appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 30:24 ἥσσων And who will listen to these your words? for they are not inferior to us; for according to the portion of him that went down to the battle, so shall be the portion of him that abides with the baggage; they shall share alike.
- Job 5:4 ἥσσων Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.
- Job 13:10 ἥσσων he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover you⌃ should secretly respect persons,
- Job 20:10 ἥσσων Let his inferiors destroy his children, and let his hands kindle the fire of sorrow.
- Isaiah 23:8 ἥσσων Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.
About this word
About this word
ἥσσων (hḗssōn), “less, weaker, inferior,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 5 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
