Strong's #5302: hustereo (pronounced hoos-ter-eh'-o)

from 5306; to be later, i.e. (by implication) to be inferior; generally, to fall short (be deficient):--come behind (short), be destitute, fail, lack, suffer need, (be in) want, be the worse.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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hustereō

1) behind

1a) to come late or too tardily

1a1) to be left behind in the race and so fail to reach the goal, to fall short of the end

1a2) metaphorically fail to become a partaker, fall back from

1b) to be inferior in power, influence and rank

1b1) of the person: to be inferior to

1c) to fail, be wanting

1d) to be in want of, lack

2) to suffer want, to be devoid of, to lack (be inferior) in excellence, worth

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G5306

Citing in TDNT: 8:592, 1240

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

Matthew 19:20: "my youth up: what lack I yet?"
Mark 10:21: "unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast,"
Luke 15:14: "and he began to be in want."
Luke 22:35: "and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said,"
John 2:3: "And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto"
Romans 3:23: "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"
1 Corinthians 1:7: "So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for"
1 Corinthians 8:8: "if we eat not, are we the worse."
1 Corinthians 12:24: "hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked:"
2 Corinthians 11:5: "For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles."
2 Corinthians 11:9: "with you, and wanted, I was chargable to no man: for"
2 Corinthians 12:11: "you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles,"
Philippians 4:12: "to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need."
Hebrews 4:1: "of you should seem to come short"
Hebrews 11:37: "sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;"
Hebrews 12:15: "Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God;"