ὑπόστασις
confidence
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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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (40%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 2 times (40%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5287 appears — 5 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.
2 Corinthians 2 verses
- 2 Corinthians 9:4 ὑποστάσει n dat sg fem so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.
- 2 Corinthians 11:17 ὑποστάσει n dat sg fem That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
Hebrews 3 verses
- Hebrews 1:3 ὑποστάσεως n gen sg fem His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself made purification for our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Hebrews 3:14 ὑποστάσεως n gen sg fem For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
- Hebrews 11:1 ὑπόστασις n nom sg fem Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
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, υποστασις (hypóstasis) means “confidence.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. The word gravitates to Hebrews (60%), then 2 Corinthians. First canonically at 2 Corinthians 9:4, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5287 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.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 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
- Hebrews 3 verses 60%
- 2 Corinthians 2 verses 40%
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.
- Hebrews 3 verses · 60%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 40%
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: Confidence 2×
- American Standard Version: Confidence 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Assurance 2×, Confident 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Of 2×, Situation 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5287 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G5287 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G5287 across 5 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 G5287 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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.
- a setting or placing under
- that which has foundation, is firm
Word origin
Derived from υπο (hypó) (G5259) — under.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G5287 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑποστάσει hypostásei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 9:4 | 2 |
| ὑποστάσεως hypostáseōs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 1:3 | 2 |
| ὑπόστασις hypóstasis | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 11:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5287, 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
- υπολαμβανω hypolambánō G5274 to welcome
- υποληνιον hypolḗnion G5276 wine pit
- υπομενω hypoménō G5278 to endure
- υπομιμνησκω hypomimnḗskō G5279 to remind
+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 υποστασις appears 19 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 19 verses in 9 books.
- 19
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 19
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 1:12 ὑπόστασις
- Judges 6:4 ὑπόστασις
- Ruth 1:12 ὑπόστασις
- 1 Samuel 13:21 ὑπόστασις
- Job 22:20 ὑπόστασις
- Psalms 38:6 ὑπόστασις
- Jeremiah 10:17 ὑπόστασις
- Ezekiel 19:5 ὑπόστασις
- Nahum 2:8 ὑπόστασις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5287) 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 1:12 ὑπόστασις How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
- Deuteronomy 11:6 ὑπόστασις and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
- Judges 6:4 ὑπόστασις and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.
- Ruth 1:12 ὑπόστασις Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;
- 1 Samuel 13:21 ὑπόστασις yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
- 1 Samuel 13:23 ὑπόστασις The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 14:4 ὑπόστασις Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
- Job 22:20 ὑπόστασις Saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off, The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'
- Psalms 38:6 ὑπόστασις I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
- Psalms 38:8 ὑπόστασις I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
- Psalms 68:3 ὑπόστασις But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
- Psalms 88:48 ὑπόστασις
- Psalms 138:15 ὑπόστασις
- Jeremiah 10:17 ὑπόστασις Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege.
- Jeremiah 23:22 ὑπόστασις But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
- Ezekiel 19:5 ὑπόστασις Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
- Ezekiel 26:11 ὑπόστασις With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.
- Ezekiel 43:11 ὑπόστασις If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and the fashion of it, and the exits of it, and the entrances of it, and all the forms of it, and all the ordinances of it, and all the forms of it, and all the laws of it; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all the ordinances of it, and do them.
- Nahum 2:8 ὑπόστασις But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5287) 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.
