ὑστερέω, 
ὑστερῶ; 1 aorist 
ὑστέρησα; perfect 
ὑστέρηκα; passive, present 
ὑστεροῦμαι; 1 aorist participle 
ὑστερηθείς; (
ὕστερος); 
1. Active, "to be 
ὕστερος i. e. behind
; i. e.
 a. to come late or too tardily" (so in secular authors from 
Herodotus down): 
Hebrews 4:1; 
to be left behind in the race and so fail to reach the goal, to fall short of the end; with 
ἀπό and the genitive indicating the end, metaphorically, 
fail to become a partaker: 
ἀπό τῆς χάριτος, 
Hebrews 12:15 (others render here 
fall back (i. e. away) 
from; cf. 
Winers Grammar, § 30, 6 b.; 
Buttmann, 322f (276f) cf. § 132, 5) (
Ecclesiastes 6:2). 
b. to be inferior, in power, influence, rank, 
1 Corinthians 12:24 (where 
L T Tr WH passive, 
ὑστερουμένῳ); in virtue, 
τί ἔτι ὑστερῶ; in what am I still deficient (
A. V. what lack I yet (cf. 
Buttmann, § 131, 10)), 
Matthew 19:20 (Sir. 51:24; 
ἵνα γνῷ τί ὑστερῶ ἐγώ, 
Psalm 38:5 (
Ps. 39:5); 
μηδ' ἐν ἄλλῳ μηδενί μέρει ἀρετῆς ὑστερουντας, 
Plato, de rep. 6, p. 484 d.); 
μηδέν or 
οὐδέν followed by a genitive (depending on the idea of comparison contained in the verb (
Buttmann, § 132, 22)) of the person, 
to be inferior to (
A. V. to be behind) 
another in nothing, 2 Corinthians 11:5; 
2 Corinthians 12:11. 
c. to fail, be lacking (
Dioscorides (?) 5, 86): 
John 2:3 (not 
Tdf.); 
ἕν σοι (
T WH Tr marginal reading 
σε (cf. 
Buttmann, as above)) 
ὑστερεῖ, 
Mark 10:21. 
d. to be in want of, lack: with a genitive of the thing (
Winer's Grammar, § 30, 6), 
Luke 22:35 (
Josephus, Antiquities 2, 2, 1). 
2. Passive 
to suffer want (
Winer's Grammar, 260 (244)): 
Luke 15:14; 
2 Corinthians 11:9 (8); 
Hebrews 11:37 (Sir. 11:11); opposed to 
περισσεύειν, to abound, 
Philippians 4:12; 
τίνος, 
to be devoid (
R. V. fall short) 
of, Romans 3:23 (
Diodorus 18, 71; 
Josephus, Antiquities 15, 6, 7); 
ἐν τίνι, to suffer want in any respect, 
1 Corinthians 1:7, opposed to 
πλουτίζεσθαι ἐν τίνι, 
1 Corinthians 1:5; 
to lack (be inferior) 
in excellence, worth, opposed to 
περισσεύειν (
A. V. to be the worse... the better), 
1 Corinthians 8:8. (Compare: 
ἀφυστερέω.) 
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