Lexicon
ὑστέρημα
husterēma
G5303
G:N-N Greek

deficiency

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Greek
Language

Husterema denotes a lack or shortfall that may be supplied, completed, or given from what remains.

The term most often marks a shortfall that another person’s resources, service, or provision can supply; it also describes what remains incomplete in faith or in the pressures of Christ, and the condition from which a woman gives all she has.

Senses in use

  1. A shortfall supplied by provision or service · dominant

    In 1 Corinthians 16:17 and 2 Corinthians 11:9, the accusative singular occurs where arrivals or brothers supply a lack. In 2 Corinthians 8:14, one group’s abundance supplies another’s lack, while 2 Corinthians 9:12 and Philippians 2:30 place the plural or singular within service that meets needs or supplies what was lacking.

  2. What remains to be completed · occasional

    In 1 Thessalonians 3:10, the accusative plural stands in the clause about seeing the recipients and completing the deficiencies of their faith. In Colossians 1:24, the same plural occurs in the statement that the speaker fills up deficiencies of the pressures of Christ in his flesh.

  3. Lack as a condition of giving · rare

    In Luke 21:4, the genitive singular occurs in the contrast between others giving from abundance and a woman giving all the life she had out of her deficiency.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses “deficiency” or “deficiencies,” and in Philippians 2:30 renders the clause “what was lacking in your service to me.” In 2 Corinthians 9:12 it instead speaks of “supplying the needs of the saints”; these are presentations of the whole clauses rather than definitions.

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