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ὑπάρχω

to be at hand

‘to be at hand’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓

G5225 Strong's Greek
hypárchō Transliteration
/hoop-ar'-kho/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 60 appearances

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About this entry

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υπαρχω — transliterated hypárchō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to be at hand.” Translators differ — “being” in the King James Version, then “possessions” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 60 verses in 11 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Acts (42% of all occurrences). Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 60-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
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Modern gloss
to be at hand
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G5225 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 →

60
distinct verses
The word appears in 60 distinct verses.
11 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 19:21
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 19:21.
2 Peter 3:11
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 2 Peter 3:11.
#272
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 272 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 60 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 18 · 30%
  • Acts 25 · 42%
  • Pauline Epistles 12 · 20%
  • General Epistles 5 · 8%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 60 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 40 verses · 67%
  • Gospels 18 verses · 30%
  • Pauline corpus 12 verses · 20%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 7%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 2%

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: Being 12×, Be 6×, Was 6×
  • American Standard Version: Being 12×, Be 4×, Is 4×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Possessions 10×, Are 6×, Is 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Being 23×, Possessions 12×, Were 5×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5225 across 49 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Being” 12×
  • “Be” 6×
  • “Was” 6×
  • “Is” 4×
  • “Were” 4×

Plus 17 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 G5225 across 51 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Being” 12×
  • “Be” 4×
  • “Is” 4×
  • “Was” 4×
  • “Were” 3×
  • “Are” 2×

Plus 22 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 G5225 across 52 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Possessions” 10×
  • “Are” 6×
  • “Is” 5×
  • “Was” 5×
  • “Be” 3×
  • “He is” 2×
  • “He was” 2×

Plus 19 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5225 across 66 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Being” 23×
  • “Possessions” 12×
  • “Were” 5×
  • “Was” 4×
  • “Be” 3×
  • “Existing” 2×
  • “Is” 2×
  • “Of” 2×

Plus 13 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 3 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.

  1. to begin below, to make a beginning
  2. to come forth, hence to be there, be ready, be at hand
  3. to be

Word origin

Derived from υπο (hypó) (G5259) — under.

Part of speech: Verb

From G5259 and G756 ; to begin under ( quietly ) that is come into existence ( be present or at hand ); expletively to exist (as copula or subordinate to an adjective participle adverb or preposition or as auxilliary to principal verb): - after behave live.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 14 distinct written forms G5225 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ὑπάρχων hypárchōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 9:48 15
ὑπάρχοντα hypárchonta Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 19:21 7
ὑπάρχειν hypárchein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Acts 19:36 6
ὑπάρχοντες hypárchontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Luke 7:25 6
ὑπαρχόντων hyparchóntōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Neuter Luke 8:3 5
ὑπῆρχεν hypē̂rchen Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 8:41 5
ὑπάρχουσιν hypárchousin Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Neuter Matthew 24:47 4
ὑπάρχοντος hypárchontos Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Acts 4:37 3
ὑπάρχει hypárchei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 3:6 3
ὑπῆρχον hypē̂rchon Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 4:34 2
ὑπάρχοντά hypárchontá Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 1 Corinthians 13:3 1
ὑπάρχοντας hypárchontas Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Acts 16:37 1
ὑπάρχωσιν hypárchōsin Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural James 2:15 1
ὑπαρχούσης hyparchoúsēs Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Acts 27:21 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5225, 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

+15 more words share this root (not shown).

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 43 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word υπαρχω appears 105 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 102 verses in 29 books.

105
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
102
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
29 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 29 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5225) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 102. 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 (G5225) 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.

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