ὑπερήφανος
haughty
‘haughty’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
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.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
2 distinct verses where G5244 appears in the Accusative case, across 2 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Luke 1 verse
Romans 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.
At its core, υπερηφανος (hyperḗphanos) means “haughty.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. Scripture first uses it in Luke 1:51. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. From the same root come υπερ, υβρις and υπεραιρομαι. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5244 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.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 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 →
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 2 verses · 40%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 40%
- Gospels 1 verse · 20%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 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: Proud 5×
- American Standard Version: Proud 3×, Haughty 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Proud 3×, Arrogant 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Proud 4×, Super 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5244 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5244 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5244 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5244 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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.
- showing one's self above others, overtopping, conspicuous above others, pre-eminent
- with an overweening estimate of one's means or merits, despising others or even treating them with contempt, haughty
Word origin
Derived from υπερ (hypér) (G5228) — over.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G5244 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑπερηφάνοις hyperēphánois | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | James 4:6 | 2 |
| ὑπερηφάνους hyperēphánous | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 1:51 | 2 |
| ὑπερήφανοι hyperḗphanoi | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Timothy 3:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5244, 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
- υπερεχω hyperéchō G5242 to stand out
- 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 υπερηφανος appears 19 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 19 verses in 5 books.
- 19
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 19
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 38:15 ὑπερήφανος
- Psalms 17:28 ὑπερήφανος
- Proverbs 3:34 ὑπερήφανος
- Isaiah 1:25 ὑπερήφανος
- Zephaniah 3:6 ὑπερήφανος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5244) 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.
- Job 38:15 ὑπερήφανος From the wicked, their light is withheld, The high arm is broken.
- Job 40:12 ὑπερήφανος Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
- Psalms 17:28 ὑπερήφανος
- Psalms 88:11 ὑπερήφανος Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
- Psalms 93:2 ὑπερήφανος Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.
- Psalms 100:5 ὑπερήφανος For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, His faithfulness to all generations.
- Psalms 118:21 ὑπερήφανος I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, And have become my salvation.
- Psalms 118:51 ὑπερήφανος
- Psalms 118:69 ὑπερήφανος
- Psalms 118:78 ὑπερήφανος
- Psalms 118:122 ὑπερήφανος
- Psalms 122:4 ὑπερήφανος Where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, According to an ordinance for Israel, To give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
- Psalms 139:6 ὑπερήφανος This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
- Proverbs 3:34 ὑπερήφανος Surely he mocks the mockers, But he gives grace to the humble.
- Isaiah 1:25 ὑπερήφανος And I will turn my hand on you, Thoroughly purge away your dross, And will take away all your tin.
- Isaiah 2:12 ὑπερήφανος For there will be a day of Yahweh of Hosts for all that is proud and haughty, And for all that is lifted up; And it shall be brought low:
- Isaiah 13:11 ὑπερήφανος I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
- Isaiah 29:20 ὑπερήφανος For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who watch for iniquity are cut off;
- Zephaniah 3:6 ὑπερήφανος I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5244) 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.
