ὑποτάσσω
to subject
‘to subject’ is one of 6 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).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5293 appears in the Book of Colossians — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Colossians
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.
υποτασσω (hypotássō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to subject.” Its English rendering has broadened — “submit yourselves” classically, “submit” (Berean Standard Bible) and “be subjected” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Greek New Testament uses it across 31 verses — moderately common. It first appears in Luke 2:51. Ranging over 6 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5293 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 →
- 31
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 31 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #392
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 392 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 31 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Peter 6 verses 19%
- Romans 5 verses 16%
- 1 Corinthians 5 verses 16%
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 31 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 18 verses · 58%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 7 verses · 23%
- Gospels 3 verses · 10%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 10%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 10%
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: Submit yourselves 6×, Be subject 5×, Are subject 3×
- American Standard Version: Be in subjection 6×, Be subject 3×, Subject 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Submit 8×, Submit yourselves 5×, Subject 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be subjected 7×, Are subjected 2×, He has put 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5293 across 49 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 29 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 G5293 across 49 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 23 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 G5293 across 38 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 18 renderings that appear 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 G5293 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 30 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 6 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 arrange under, to subordinate
- to subject, put in subjection
- to subject one's self, obey
- to submit to one's control
- to yield to one's admonition or advice
- to obey, be subject A Greek military term meaning "to arrange [troop divisions] in amilitary fashion under the command…
Word origin
Derived from υπο (hypó) (G5259) — under.
Forms in the corpus
The 26 distinct written forms G5293 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5293, 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).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 42 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υποτασσω appears 16 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 16 verses in 6 books.
- 16
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 16
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Kings 10:15 ὑποτάσσω
- 1 Chronicles 22:18 ὑποτάσσω
- 2 Chronicles 9:14 ὑποτάσσω
- Psalms 8:7 ὑποτάσσω
- Daniel 7:27 ὑποτάσσω
- Haggai 2:18 ὑποτάσσω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5293) 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.
- 1 Kings 10:15 ὑποτάσσω besides [that which] the traders [brought], and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.
- 1 Chronicles 22:18 ὑποτάσσω Isn't Yahweh your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on every side? for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
- 1 Chronicles 29:24 ὑποτάσσω All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
- 2 Chronicles 9:14 ὑποτάσσω besides that which the traders and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
- Psalms 8:7 ὑποτάσσω All sheep and oxen, Yes, and the animals of the field,
- Psalms 17:48 ὑποτάσσω
- Psalms 36:7 ὑποτάσσω How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
- Psalms 46:4 ὑποτάσσω There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, The holy place of the tents of the Most High.
- Psalms 59:10 ὑποτάσσω My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
- Psalms 61:2 ὑποτάσσω From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- Psalms 61:6 ὑποτάσσω You will prolong the king's life; His years shall be for generations.
- Psalms 107:10 ὑποτάσσω Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
- Psalms 143:2 ὑποτάσσω Don't enter into judgment with your servant, For in your sight no man living is righteous.
- Daniel 7:27 ὑποτάσσω The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole the sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
- Daniel 11:37 ὑποτάσσω Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.
- Haggai 2:18 ὑποτάσσω 'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5293) 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.
