Original Word: ἥττημα, ατος, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: héttéma
Phonetic Spelling: (hayt'-tay-mah)
Short Definition: a defeat, failure
Definition: defect, loss, defeat, failure, shortcoming.STRONGS NT 2275: ἥττημα

ἥττημα (cf. Buttmann, 7; WH's Appendix, p. 166), ἡτηματος, τό, (ἡττάομαι);

1. a diminution, decrease: i. e. defeat, Isaiah 31:8; αὐτῶν, brought upon the Jewish people in that so few of them had turned to Christ, Romans 11:12 (R. V. loss).

2. loss, namely, as respects salvation, 1 Corinthians 6:7 (R. V. text defect). Cf. Meyer (but cf. his 6te Aufl.) on each passage. (Elsewhere only in ecclesiastical writ:)

diminishing, fault.

From hettao; a deterioration, i.e. (objectively) failure or (subjectively) loss -- diminishing, fault.

see GREEK hettao

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