ὑπάγω
to depart
‘to depart’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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 Revelation — 6 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.
Revelation
- Revelation 10:8 ὕπαγε pres act impv 2sg The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."
- Revelation 13:10 ὑπάγει pres act ind 3sg If anyone has captivity, he will go. If anyone is with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
- Revelation 14:4 ὑπάγῃ pres act subj 3sg These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
- Revelation 16:1 ὑπάγετε pres act impv 2pl I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!"
- Revelation 17:8 ὑπάγειν pres act inf The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.
- Revelation 17:11 ὑπάγει pres act ind 3sg The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.
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.
