ὑποἵστημι
withstand, endure
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὑποἵστημι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 19 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.
- Numbers 22:26 ὑποἵστημι And the angel of the Lord went farther, and came and stood in a narrow place where it was impossible to turn to the right or the left.
- Joshua 7:12 ὑποἵστημι And the children of Israel will not be able to stand before their enemies; they will turn their back before their enemies, for they have become an accursed thing: I will not any longer be with you, unless you⌃ remove the cursed thing from yourselves.
- Judges 9:15 ὑποἵστημι And the bramble said to the trees, If you⌃ in truth anoint me to reign over you, come, stand under my shadow; and if not, let fire come out from me and devour the cedars of Libanus.
- 1 Samuel 30:10 ὑποἵστημι And he pursued them with four hundred men; and there remained behind two hundred men, who tarried on the other side of the brook Bosor.
- 2 Samuel 2:23 ὑποἵστημι And what does this mean? return to Joab your brother? But he would not stand aloof; and Abenner smites him with the hinder end of the spear on the loins, and the spear went out behind him, and he falls there and dies on the spot: and it came to pass that every one that came to the place where Asael fell and died, stood still.
- Psalms 129:3 ὑποἵστημι If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
- Psalms 139:11 ὑποἵστημι A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.
- Psalms 147:6 ὑποἵστημι Casting forth his ice like morsels: who shall stand before his cold?
- Proverbs 13:8 ὑποἵστημι A man's own wealth is the ransom of his life: but the poor endures not threatening.
- Proverbs 21:29 ὑποἵστημι An ungodly man impudently withstands with his face; but the upright man himself understands his ways.
- Proverbs 25:6 ὑποἵστημι Be not boastful in the presence of the king, and remain not in the places of princes;
- Proverbs 27:4 ὑποἵστημι Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: but envy can bear nothing.
- Ezekiel 22:14 ὑποἵστημι shall your heart endure? shall your hands be strong in the days which I bring upon you? I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.
- Hosea 13:13 ὑποἵστημι Pains as of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is your wise son, because he shall not stay in the destruction of your children.
- Amos 2:15 ὑποἵστημι and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in no wise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.
- Micah 5:6 ὑποἵστημι And they shall tend the Assyrian with a sword, and the land of Nebrod with her trench: and he shall deliver you from the Assyrian, when he shall come upon your land, and when he shall invade your coasts.
- Nahum 1:6 ὑποἵστημι Who shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his wrath? his wrath brings to nothing kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder by him.
- Zechariah 9:8 ὑποἵστημι And I will set up a defence for my house, that they may not pass through, nor turn back, neither shall there any more come upon them one to drive them away: for now have I seen with my eyes.
- Malachi 3:2 ὑποἵστημι And who will abide the day of his coming? or who will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers.
About this word
About this word
ὑποἵστημι (hypoístēmi), “withstand, endure,” 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 19 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 →