Let L be a second order uniformly elliptic differential operator in a domain D of \(\mathbb {R}^{d}\) , \(\psi :\mathbb {R}_+\rightarrow \mathbb {R}_+\) be a nondecreasing continuous function and let \(\xi ,g:D\rightarrow \mathbb {R}_+\) be locally bounded Borel measurable functions. Under appropriate conditions, we determine a function \(\varphi \) with values in ]0, 1] such that for every nonnegative solution to inequality \(-Lu+\xi \psi (u) \ge g\) in D and for every \(x\in D\) , \(\begin{aligned} u(x)\ge p(x)\,\varphi \left( \frac{G_D(\xi \psi (p))(x)}{p(x)}\right) , \end{aligned}\) where \(p=G_Dg\) is the Green function of g. The function \(\varphi \) is completely determined by \(\psi \) and does not depend on \(L,D,\xi \) or g.