Inferior
Bible Usage:
- inferior used 4 times.
- First Reference: Job 12:3
- Last Reference: 2 Corinthians 12:13
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Inferior
INFE'RIOR, adjective [Latin comparative from inferus, low.]
1. Lower in place.
2. Lower in station, age, or rank in life. Pay due respect to those who are superior in station, and due civility to those who are inferior
3. Lower in excellence or value; as a poem of inferior merit; cloth of inferior quality or price.
4. Subordinate; of less importance. Attend to health and safety; ease and convenience are inferior considerations.
INFE'RIOR, noun A person who is younger, or of a lower station or rank in society.
A person gets more by obliging his inferior than by disdaining him.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Inferiority
INFERIOR'ITY, noun A lower state of dignity, age, value or quality. We speak of the inferiority of rank, of office, of talents, of age, of worth.