ὕψιστος
highest
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- 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.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Degree
- Superlative
- Expresses the greatest degree (“greatest,” “most”).
2 verses where G5310 appears in the Dative case in the Book of Luke. 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
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.
The Greek verb υψιστος centers on the idea of “highest.” Luke dominates its distribution — 7 of 13 verses. The Greek New Testament uses it across 13 verses — uncommon. First canonically at Matthew 21:9, it enters the text early. Related forms include υψος, υψηλος and υψοω. 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 G5310 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #863
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 863 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 13 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 13 distinct verses.
- Gospels 10 verses · 77%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 9 verses · 69%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 8%
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: Highest 8×, Most high 5×
- American Standard Version: Most high 9×, Highest 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Most high 9×, Highest 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Most high 9×, Highest 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5310 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5310 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5310 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5310 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- highest, most high
Word origin
Derived from υψος (hýpsos) (G5311) — height.
Superlative from the base of G5311 ; highest that is (masculine singular) the supreme (God) or (neuter plural) the heavens : - most high highest.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G5310 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑψίστου hypsístou | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine, Superlative | Mark 5:7 | 8 |
| ὑψίστοις hypsístois | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Neuter, Superlative | Matthew 21:9 | 4 |
| ὕψιστος hýpsistos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine, Superlative | Acts 7:48 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5310, 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
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υψιστος appears 56 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 52 verses in 10 books.
- 56
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 52
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 14:18 ὕψιστος
- Numbers 24:16 ὕψιστος
- Deuteronomy 32:8 ὕψιστος
- 2 Samuel 22:14 ὕψιστος
- Job 16:19 ὕψιστος
- Psalms 7:18 ὕψιστος
- Isaiah 14:14 ὕψιστος
- Lamentations 3:35 ὕψιστος
- Daniel 2:18 ὕψιστος
- Micah 6:6 ὕψιστος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5310) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 52. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 14:18 ὕψιστος Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.
- Genesis 14:19 ὕψιστος He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
- Genesis 14:20 ὕψιστος and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.
- Genesis 14:22 ὕψιστος Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
- Numbers 24:16 ὕψιστος He says, who hears the words of God, Knows the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
- Deuteronomy 32:8 ὕψιστος When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 22:14 ὕψιστος Yahweh thundered from heaven, The Most High uttered his voice.
- Job 16:19 ὕψιστος Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
- Job 25:2 ὕψιστος "Dominion and fear are with him; He makes peace in his high places.
- Job 31:2 ὕψιστος For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?
- Job 31:28 ὕψιστος This also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God who is above.
- Psalms 7:18 ὕψιστος
- Psalms 9:3 ὕψιστος When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish in your presence.
- Psalms 12:6 ὕψιστος The words of Yahweh are flawless words, As silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
- Psalms 17:14 ὕψιστος From men by your hand, Yahweh, From men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, And they store up wealth for their children.
- Psalms 20:8 ὕψιστος They are bowed down and fallen, But we rise up, and stand upright.
- Psalms 45:5 ὕψιστος Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.
- Psalms 46:3 ὕψιστος Though the waters of it roar and are troubled, Though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
- Psalms 49:14 ὕψιστος They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, Far from their mansion.
- Psalms 56:3 ὕψιστος When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
- Psalms 70:19 ὕψιστος
- Psalms 72:11 ὕψιστος Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.
- Psalms 76:11 ὕψιστος Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
- Psalms 77:17 ὕψιστος The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.
- Psalms 77:35 ὕψιστος
- Psalms 77:56 ὕψιστος
- Psalms 81:6 ὕψιστος "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
- Psalms 82:19 ὕψιστος
- Psalms 86:5 ὕψιστος For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; Abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
- Psalms 90:1 ὕψιστος Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
- Psalms 90:9 ὕψιστος For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
- Psalms 91:2 ὕψιστος I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust."
- Psalms 91:9 ὕψιστος Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, And the Most High your dwelling place,
- Psalms 96:9 ὕψιστος Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.
- Psalms 106:11 ὕψιστος The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.
- Psalms 148:1 ὕψιστος Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!
- Isaiah 14:14 ὕψιστος I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.
- Isaiah 57:15 ὕψιστος For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Lamentations 3:35 ὕψιστος To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
- Lamentations 3:38 ὕψιστος Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
- Daniel 2:18 ὕψιστος that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should nor perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:19 ὕψιστος Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
- Daniel 3:93 ὕψιστος
- Daniel 4:7 ὕψιστος Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers; and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me the interpretation of it.
- Daniel 4:17 ὕψιστος The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
- Daniel 4:27 ὕψιστος Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquillity.
- Daniel 4:29 ὕψιστος At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
- Daniel 7:18 ὕψιστος But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.
- Daniel 7:22 ὕψιστος until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
- Daniel 7:25 ὕψιστος He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5310) 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.
