TRV
ὑστερέω
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Greek New Testament, this word appears as a verb across 16 occurrences, inflected in 13 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it. These are this word’s own inflections, not words built from it — for those, see Related Words.
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ὑστερεῖσθαι
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
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ὑστερηκέναι
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
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ὑστέρησα
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
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ὑστερήσατε;
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ὑστερήσαντος
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Genitive
- Possession or source — often "of".
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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ὑστερηθεὶς
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Nominative
- The subject of the verb.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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ὑστερῶ;
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Singular
- One.
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ὑστερεῖ·
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ὑστερῶν
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Nominative
- The subject of the verb.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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ὑστερούμεθα
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 1st
- First person — the speaker ("I"/"we").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ὑστεροῦνται
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ὑστερουμένῳ
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Dative
- The indirect object — often "to" or "for".
- Singular
- One.
- Neuter
- Neuter grammatical gender.
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ὑστερούμενοι
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Nominative
- The subject of the verb.
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 16 verses across 9 of the 27 books. Most frequent in 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, and Hebrews (3 verses each); never once in the other 18.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.