ὑποφέρω
to endure
‘to endure’ 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 Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5297 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 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.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
1 Peter 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.
υποφερω — transliterated hypophérō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to endure.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. More than a third of its appearances fall in 1 Corinthians. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Corinthians 10:13. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. 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 G5297 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 33%
- 2 Timothy 1 verse 33%
- 1 Peter 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 67%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 33%
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: Bear 1×, Endure 1×, I endured 1×
- American Standard Version: Endure it 1×, Endureth 1×, I endured 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Endures 1×, I endured 1×, Stand up under 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Endure it 1×, Endures 1×, I endured 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5297 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5297 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5297 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5297 across 3 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 bear by being under, bear up (a thing placed on one's shoulders)
- to bear patiently, to endure
Word origin
Derived from υπο (hypó) (G5259) — under.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G5297 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑπήνεγκα hypḗnenka | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | 2 Timothy 3:11 | 1 |
| ὑπενεγκεῖν hypenenkeîn | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | 1 Corinthians 10:13 | 1 |
| ὑποφέρει hypophérei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Peter 2:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5297, 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 υποφερω appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 12 verses in 6 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 12
- 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 8:64 ὑποφέρω
- Job 2:10 ὑποφέρω
- Psalms 54:13 ὑποφέρω
- Proverbs 6:33 ὑποφέρω
- Amos 7:10 ὑποφέρω
- Micah 7:9 ὑποφέρω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5297) 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 8:64 ὑποφέρω The same day did the king make the middle of the court holy that was before the house of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings.
- Job 2:10 ὑποφέρω But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.
- Job 4:2 ὑποφέρω "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
- Job 15:35 ὑποφέρω They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."
- Job 31:23 ὑποφέρω For calamity from God is a terror to me, By reason of his majesty I can do nothing.
- Psalms 54:13 ὑποφέρω
- Psalms 68:8 ὑποφέρω The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai-- At the presence of God, the God of Israel.
- Proverbs 6:33 ὑποφέρω He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.
- Proverbs 14:17 ὑποφέρω He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, And a crafty man is hated.
- Proverbs 18:14 ὑποφέρω A man's spirit will sustain him in sickness, But a crushed spirit, who can bear?
- Amos 7:10 ὑποφέρω Then Amaziah the priest of Beth El sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
- Micah 7:9 ὑποφέρω I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, Because I have sinned against him, Until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5297) 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.
