ὑπεράνω
above
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
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G5231 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Ephesians 2 verses
- Ephesians 1:21 ὑπεράνω adv far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.
- Ephesians 4:10 ὑπεράνω adv He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
Hebrews 1 verse
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.
υπερανω (hyperánō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “above.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. Ephesians dominates its distribution — 2 of 3 verses. Debuting at Ephesians 1:21, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include υπερ, υβρις and υπεραιρομαι. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5231 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 67%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 33%
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: Far above 2×
- American Standard Version: Far above 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Above 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Far above 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5231 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5231 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5231 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 G5231 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- above
Word origin
Derived from υπερ (hypér) (G5228) — over.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5231, 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
- υβρις hýbris G5196 insult
- υπεραιρομαι hyperaíromai G5229 to exalt oneself
- υπερακμος hypérakmos G5230 overripe
- υπεραυξανω hyperauxánō G5232 to increase greatly
- υπερβαινω hyperbaínō G5233 to step over
- υπερβαλλω hyperbállō G5235 to surpass
- υπερειδω hypereídō G5237 to overlook
- υπερεκεινα hyperékeina G5238 beyond
- υπερεκτεινω hyperekteínō G5239 to stretch beyond
- υπερεκχυνω hyperekchýnō G5240 to overflow
- υπερεντυγχανω hyperentynchánō G5241 to intercede
- υπερεχω hyperéchō G5242 to stand out
- υπερηφανος hyperḗphanos G5244 haughty
- υπερνικαω hypernikáō G5245 to overcome completely
- υπερογκος hypéronkos G5246 immoderate
- υπερπερισσευω hyperperisseúō G5248 to abound greatly
- υπερπερισσως hyperperissōs G5249 exceedingly
- υπερπλεοναζω hyperpleonázō G5250 to overflow
- υπερυψοω hyperypsóō G5251 to exalt highly
- υπερφρονεω hyperphronéō G5252 to think arrogantly
- υπερωον hyperōion G5253 upper room
- υψος hýpsos G5311 height
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 24 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υπερανω appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 10 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 26:19 ὑπεράνω
- Ezra 22:38 ὑπεράνω
- Psalms 8:2 ὑπεράνω
- Isaiah 2:2 ὑπεράνω
- Ezekiel 8:2 ὑπεράνω
- Daniel 3:46 ὑπεράνω
- Jonah 4:6 ὑπεράνω
- Micah 4:1 ὑπεράνω
- Haggai 2:15 ὑπεράνω
- Malachi 1:5 ὑπεράνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5231) 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.
- Deuteronomy 26:19 ὑπεράνω and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
- Deuteronomy 28:1 ὑπεράνω It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, who Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:
- Ezra 22:38 ὑπεράνω
- Ezra 22:39 ὑπεράνω
- Psalms 8:2 ὑπεράνω From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, Because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
- Psalms 73:5 ὑπεράνω They are free from burdens of men, Neither are they plagued like other men.
- Psalms 148:4 ὑπεράνω Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.
- Isaiah 2:2 ὑπεράνω It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be raised above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.
- Ezekiel 8:2 ὑπεράνω Then I saw, and, behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
- Ezekiel 10:19 ὑπεράνω The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
- Ezekiel 11:22 ὑπεράνω Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
- Ezekiel 43:15 ὑπεράνω The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.
- Daniel 3:46 ὑπεράνω
- Jonah 4:6 ὑπεράνω Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
- Micah 4:1 ὑπεράνω But in the latter days, It will happen that the mountain of Yahweh's temple will be established on the top of the mountains, And it will be exalted above the hills; And peoples will stream to it.
- Haggai 2:15 ὑπεράνω Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.
- Malachi 1:5 ὑπεράνω Your eyes will see, and you will say, "Yahweh is great--even beyond the border of Israel!"
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5231) 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.
