ὑπερέχω
to stand out
‘to stand out’ 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).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5242 appears in the Book of Philippians — 3 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.
Philippians
- Philippians 2:3 ὑπερέχοντας pres act ptcp acc pl masc doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
- Philippians 3:8 ὑπερέχον pres act ptcp acc sg neut Yes most assuredly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
- Philippians 4:7 ὑπερέχουσα pres act ptcp nom sg fem And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
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.
“to stand out” is the headline sense of the Greek verb υπερεχω (hyperéchō). It is rare — just 5 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. More than half of its appearances fall in Philippians. Scripture first uses it in Romans 13:1. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5242 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Philippians 3 verses 60%
- Romans 1 verse 20%
- 1 Peter 1 verse 20%
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 5 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 80%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 20%
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: Better than 1×, Excellency 1×, Higher 1×
- American Standard Version: Better 1×, Excellency 1×, Higher 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: More important than 1×, Supreme 1×, Surpasses 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Better than 1×, One having supreme authority 1×, Subject 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5242 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5242 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5242 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5242 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 have or hold over one
- to stand out, rise above, overtop
Word origin
Derived from υπερ (hypér) (G5228) — over.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G5242 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑπερέχον hyperéchon | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Philippians 3:8 | 1 |
| ὑπερέχοντας hyperéchontas | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Philippians 2:3 | 1 |
| ὑπερέχοντι hyperéchonti | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Peter 2:13 | 1 |
| ὑπερέχουσα hyperéchousa | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Philippians 4:7 | 1 |
| ὑπερεχούσαις hyperechoúsais | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Romans 13:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5242, 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
- υπερανω hyperánō G5231 above
- 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
- 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 25 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υπερεχω appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 7 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 25:23 ὑπερἔχω
- Exodus 26:13 ὑπερἔχω
- Leviticus 25:27 ὑπερἔχω
- Judges 5:25 ὑπερἔχω
- 1 Kings 8:8 ὑπερἔχω
- 2 Chronicles 5:9 ὑπερἔχω
- Daniel 5:11 ὑπερἔχω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5242) 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.
- Genesis 25:23 ὑπερἔχω Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.
- Genesis 39:9 ὑπερἔχω He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
- Exodus 26:13 ὑπερἔχω The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tent on this side and on that side, to cover it.
- Leviticus 25:27 ὑπερἔχω then let him reckon the years since the sale of it, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
- Judges 5:25 ὑπερἔχω He asked water, [and] she gave him milk; She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
- 1 Kings 8:8 ὑπερἔχω The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day.
- 2 Chronicles 5:9 ὑπερἔχω The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day.
- Daniel 5:11 ὑπερἔχω There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, [I say], your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5242) 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.
