ὑπολαμβάνω
to welcome
‘to welcome’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G5274 appears in the Present tense in the Book of Acts. 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.
Acts
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.
υπολαμβανω (hypolambánō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to welcome.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. Luke dominates its distribution — 2 of 5 verses. Scripture first uses it in Luke 7:43. Ranging over 4 senses, it is not a single-sense word. 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 G5274 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 →
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.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 80%
- Gospels 2 verses · 40%
- Johannine 1 verse · 20%
- 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: Answering 1×, I suppose 1×, Received 1×
- American Standard Version: He 1×, Made answer 1×, Received 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hid 1×, I suppose 1×, Support 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Answering 1×, Are assuming 1×, Hid 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5274 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5274 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5274 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5274 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 4 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 take up in order to raise, to bear on high
- to receive hospitably, welcome
- follow in speech, in order either to reply to or controvert or supplement what another has said
- to assume, suppose
Word origin
Derived from υπο (hypó) (G5259) — under.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G5274 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑπέλαβεν hypélaben | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 1:9 | 1 |
| ὑπολαβὼν hypolabṑn | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 10:30 | 1 |
| ὑπολαμβάνειν hypolambánein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | 3 John 1:8 | 1 |
| ὑπολαμβάνετε hypolambánete | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Acts 2:15 | 1 |
| ὑπολαμβάνω hypolambánō | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | Luke 7:43 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5274, 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
- υπαγω hypágō G5217 to depart
- 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
- 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 υπολαμβανω appears 37 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 37 verses in 5 books.
- 37
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 37
- 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
- 2 Chronicles 25:8 ὑπολαμβάνω
- Job 2:4 ὑπολαμβάνω
- Psalms 16:12 ὑπολαμβάνω
- Jeremiah 44:9 ὑπολαμβάνω
- Daniel 2:30 ὑπολαμβάνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5274) 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.
- 2 Chronicles 25:8 ὑπολαμβάνω But if you will go, do [valiantly], be strong for the battle: God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to cast down.
- Job 2:4 ὑπολαμβάνω Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.
- Job 4:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
- Job 6:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Job answered,
- Job 8:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
- Job 9:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Job answered,
- Job 11:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,
- Job 12:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Job answered,
- Job 15:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
- Job 16:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Job answered,
- Job 18:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
- Job 19:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Job answered,
- Job 20:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
- Job 20:2 ὑπολαμβάνω "Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.
- Job 21:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Job answered,
- Job 22:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
- Job 23:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Job answered,
- Job 25:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
- Job 25:3 ὑπολαμβάνω Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
- Job 26:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Job answered,
- Job 32:6 ὑπολαμβάνω Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.
- Job 32:17 ὑπολαμβάνω I also will answer my part, And I also will show my opinion.
- Job 34:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Moreover Elihu answered,
- Job 35:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Moreover Elihu answered,
- Job 40:3 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Job answered Yahweh,
- Job 40:6 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
- Job 42:1 ὑπολαμβάνω Then Job answered Yahweh,
- Psalms 16:12 ὑπολαμβάνω
- Psalms 29:2 ὑπολαμβάνω Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array.
- Psalms 47:10 ὑπολαμβάνω
- Psalms 49:21 ὑπολαμβάνω
- Psalms 67:17 ὑπολαμβάνω
- Psalms 72:16 ὑπολαμβάνω There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
- Jeremiah 44:9 ὑπολαμβάνω Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
- Daniel 2:30 ὑπολαμβάνω But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
- Daniel 3:9 ὑπολαμβάνω They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever.
- Daniel 3:95 ὑπολαμβάνω
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5274) 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.
