ὑστέρημα
deficiency
‘deficiency’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 5 times (56%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 3 times (33%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5303 appears — 9 distinct verses across 6 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 4 verses
- 2 Corinthians 8:13 ὑστέρημα n acc sg neut For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
- 2 Corinthians 8:14 ὑστέρημα n acc sg neut but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.
- 2 Corinthians 9:12 ὑστερήματα n acc pl neut For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;
- 2 Corinthians 11:9 ὑστέρημά n acc sg neut When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
Philippians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun υστερημα centers on the idea of “deficiency.” Its earliest occurrence is Luke 21:4. The Greek New Testament uses it across 9 verses — uncommon. 2 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 4 of 9 verses. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5303 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 4 verses 44%
- Luke 1 verse 11%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 11%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 8 verses · 89%
- Gospels 1 verse · 11%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Want 3×, Was lacking 2×
- American Standard Version: Want 4×, Was lacking 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Is lacking 2×, Need 2×, Needs 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lack 3×, Need 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5303 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5303 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5303 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5303 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- deficiency, that which is lacking
- in reference to property and resources, poverty, want, destitution
Word origin
Derived from υστερεω (hysteréō) (G5302) — to fall short.
From G5302 ; a deficit ; specifically poverty : - that which is behind (that which was) lack (-ing) penury want.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G5303 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑστέρημα hystérēma | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 16:17 | 4 |
| ὑστερήματα hysterḗmata | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | 2 Corinthians 9:12 | 3 |
| ὑστέρημά hystérēmá | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | 2 Corinthians 11:9 | 1 |
| ὑστερήματος hysterḗmatos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Luke 21:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5303, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υστερημα appears 6 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 6 verses in 4 books.
- 6
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 6
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 18:10 ὑστέρημα
- Ezra 6:9 ὑστέρημα
- Psalms 33:10 ὑστέρημα
- Ecclesiastes 1:15 ὑστέρημα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5303) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 18:10 ὑστέρημα When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.
- Judges 19:19 ὑστέρημα Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything.
- Judges 19:20 ὑστέρημα The old man said, Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don't lodge in the street.
- Ezra 6:9 ὑστέρημα That which they have need of, both young bulls, and rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;
- Psalms 33:10 ὑστέρημα Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
- Ecclesiastes 1:15 ὑστέρημα That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5303) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
