ὑστέρημα
νὺξ μὲν ἐμὸν κατέχει ζωῆς φάος ὑπνοδοτείρη → sleep-giving night hath quenched my light of life | sleep-giving night covers my light of life | night, the giver of sleep, holds the light of my life
English (LSJ)
ατος, τό,
A shortcoming, deficiency, need, LXX Ps.33(34).10, Ev.Luc.21.4, Corp.Herm. 13.1, etc.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ὑστέρημα: τὸ, ἔλλειψις, ἀνάγκη, Ἑβδ. (Ψαλμ. ΛΓ΄, 10), Εὐαγγ. κ. Λουκ. κα΄, 4, κ. ἀλλ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ατος (τό) :
manque, pénurie, indigence.
Étymologie: ὑστερέω.
English (Strong)
from ὑστερέω; a deficit; specially, poverty: that which is behind, (that which was) lack(-ing), penury, want.
English (Thayer)
ὑστερήματος, τό (ὑστερέω);
a. deficiency, that which is lacking: plural with a genitive of the thing whose deficiency is to be filled up, ἀνταναπληρόω, and θλῖψις under the end); τό ὑστέρημα with a genitive (or its equivalent) of the person, the absence of one, ὑμέτερον being taken objectively (Winer s Grammar, § 22,7; Buttmann, § 132,8); others take ὑμέτερον subjectively and render that which was lacking on your part); τό ὑμῶν ὑστέρημα τῆς πρός με λειτουργίας, your absence, owing to which something was lacking in the service conferred on me (by you), poverty, want, destitution: Judges 18:10, etc.; ecclesiastical writings).
