ἥττημα
θοῦ, Κύριε, φυλακὴν τῷ στόµατί µου καὶ θύραν περιοχῆς περὶ τὰ χείλη µου → set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips | set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips (Psalm 140:3, Septuagint version)
English (LSJ)
ατος, τό,
A discomfiture, LXXIs.31.8; loss, 1 Ep.Cor.6.7: ἥττησις, εως, ἡ, = foreg., Suid. s.v. ἧττα.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἥττημα: τό, = ἧττα, Ἐβδ. (Ἠσαΐ. λα΄, 9), Α΄ Ἐπιστ. πρὸς κορινθ. ς΄, 7· - καὶ ἥττησις, ἡ, Σουΐδ.
English (Strong)
from ἡττάω; a deterioration, i.e. (objectively) failure or (subjectively) loss: diminishing, fault.
English (Thayer)
(cf. Buttmann, 7; WH's Appendix, p. 166), ἡτηματος, τό, (ἡττάομαι);
1. a diminution, decrease: i. e. defeat, αὐτῶν, brought upon the Jewish people in that so few of them had turned to Christ, R. V. loss).
2. loss, namely, as respects salvation, R. V. text defect). Cf. Meyer (but cf. his 6te Aufl.) on each passage. (Elsewhere only in ecclesiastical writ:)