ὑπάγω
to depart
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5217 appears in the Book of John — 28 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John
- John 3:8 ὑπάγει pres act ind 3sg The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
- John 4:16 ὕπαγε pres act impv 2sg Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
- John 6:21 ὑπῆγον impf act ind 3pl They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
- John 6:67 ὑπάγειν pres act inf Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"
- John 7:3 ὕπαγε pres act impv 2sg His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
- John 7:33 ὑπάγω pres act ind 1sg Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
- John 8:14 ὑπάγω ὑπάγω pres act ind 1sg pres act ind 1sg Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.
- John 8:21 ὑπάγω ὑπάγω pres act ind 1sg pres act ind 1sg Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."
- John 8:22 ὑπάγω pres act ind 1sg The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'"
- John 9:7 ὕπαγε pres act impv 2sg and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
- John 9:11 ὕπαγε pres act impv 2sg He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."
- John 11:8 ὑπάγεις pres act ind 2sg The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"
- John 11:31 ὑπάγει pres act ind 3sg Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."
- John 11:44 ὑπάγειν pres act inf He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."
- John 12:11 ὑπῆγον impf act ind 3pl because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
- John 12:35 ὑπάγει pres act ind 3sg Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
- John 13:3 ὑπάγει pres act ind 3sg Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,
- John 13:33 ὑπάγω pres act ind 1sg Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.
- John 13:36 ὑπάγεις ὑπάγω pres act ind 2sg pres act ind 1sg Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."
- John 14:4 ὑπάγω pres act ind 1sg Where I go, you know, and you know the way."
- John 14:5 ὑπάγεις pres act ind 2sg Thomas says to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"
- John 14:28 ὑπάγω pres act ind 1sg You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.
- John 15:16 ὑπάγητε pres act subj 2pl You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
- John 16:5 ὑπάγω ὑπάγεις pres act ind 1sg pres act ind 2sg But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
- John 16:10 ὑπάγω pres act ind 1sg about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more;
- John 16:17 ὑπάγω pres act ind 1sg Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"
- John 18:8 ὑπάγειν pres act inf Jesus answered, "I told you that I AM. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,"
- John 21:3 ὑπάγω pres act ind 1sg Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, υπαγω (hypágō) means “to depart.” It first appears in Matthew 4:10. Spanning 76 verses in 7 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in John (37% of all occurrences). Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5217 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 76
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 76 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #211
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 211 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 76 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 76 distinct verses.
- Gospels 68 verses · 89%
- Johannine 35 verses · 46%
- Revelation 6 verses · 8%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 7%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 3%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Go 25×, Go thy way 9×, I go 6×
- American Standard Version: Go 32×, I go 6×, Go thy way 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Go 38×, I am going 8×, Am going 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Go 37×, Go away 6×, I go 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5217 across 81 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5217 across 76 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5217 across 79 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5217 across 80 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to lead under, bring under
- to withdraw one's self, to go away, depart
Word origin
Derived from υπο (hypó) (G5259) — under.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms G5217 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὕπαγε hýpage | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Matthew 4:10 | 25 |
| ὑπάγετε hypágete | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Matthew 8:32 | 14 |
| ὑπάγω hypágō | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | John 7:33 | 14 |
| ὑπάγει hypágei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 13:44 | 10 |
| ὑπάγειν hypágein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Luke 8:42 | 6 |
| ὑπάγεις hypágeis | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | Luke 12:58 | 5 |
| ὑπῆγον hypē̂gon | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | John 6:21 | 2 |
| ὑπάγητε hypágēte | Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural | John 15:16 | 1 |
| ὑπάγοντας hypágontas | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 6:33 | 1 |
| ὑπάγοντες hypágontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 6:31 | 1 |
| ὑπάγῃ hypágē | Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Revelation 14:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5217, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- υπακουω hypakoúō G5219 to listen
- υπανδρος hýpandros G5220 under (married)
- υπανταω hypantáō G5221 to meet
- υπαρχω hypárchō G5225 to be at hand
- υπεικω hypeíkō G5226 to yield
- υπεναντιος hypenantíos G5227 adversary
- υπεχω hypéchō G5254 to sustain
- υπηρετης hypērétēs G5257 servant
- υπνος hýpnos G5258 sleep
- υποβαλλω hypobállō G5260 to instigate
- υπογραμμος hypogrammós G5261 example
- υποδεικνυμι hypodeíknymi G5263 to demonstrate
- υποδεχομαι hypodéchomai G5264 to welcome
- υποδεω hypodéō G5265 to bind on
- υποδικος hypódikos G5267 debtor
- υποζυγιον hypozýgion G5268 beast of burden
- υποζωννυμι hypozṓnnymi G5269 to undergird
- υποκατω hypokátō G5270 underneath
- υποκρινομαι hypokrínomai G5271 to pretend
- υπολαμβανω hypolambánō G5274 to welcome
- υποληνιον hypolḗnion G5276 wine pit
- υπομενω hypoménō G5278 to endure
- υπομιμνησκω hypomimnḗskō G5279 to remind
- υπονοεω hyponoéō G5282 to suppose
+15 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 41 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υπαγω appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 14:21 ὑποἄγω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5217) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5217) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
