ὑπερκεῖμαι
lie over, surpass
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὑπερκεῖμαι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 2 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Proverbs 31:29 ὑπερκεῖμαι Many daughters have obtained wealth, many have wrought valiantly; but you have exceeded, you have surpassed all.
- Ezekiel 16:47 ὑπερκεῖμαι Yet notwithstanding you have not walked in their ways, neither have you done according to their iniquities within a little, but you have exceeded them in all your ways.
About this word
About this word
ὑπερκεῖμαι (hyperkeîmai), “lie over, surpass,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 2 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
