ὕψος
height
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
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G5311 appears in the Dative case, across 1 book. 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.
James 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.
“height” is the headline sense of the Greek noun υψος (hýpsos). Its earliest occurrence is Luke 1:78. The Greek New Testament uses it across 6 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in Luke. Related forms include υπερ, υβρις and υπεραιρομαι. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5311 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 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 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 33%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 33%
- Johannine 1 verse · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 17%
- Revelation 1 verse · 17%
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: High 3×, Height 2×
- American Standard Version: High 3×, Height 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: High 3×, Height 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Height 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5311 across 6 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5311 across 6 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5311 across 6 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 G5311 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 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.
- height
Word origin
Derived from υπερ (hypér) (G5228) — over.
From a derivative of G5228 ; elevation that is (abstractly) altitude (specifically) the sky or (figuratively) dignity : - be exalted height (on) high.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G5311 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὕψος hýpsos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Ephesians 3:18 | 3 |
| ὕψους hýpsous | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Luke 1:78 | 2 |
| ὕψει hýpsei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | James 1:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5311, 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
- υβρις hýbris G5196 insult
- υπεραιρομαι hyperaíromai G5229 to exalt oneself
- υπερακμος hypérakmos G5230 overripe
- υπερανω hyperánō G5231 above
- υπεραυξανω hyperauxánō G5232 to increase greatly
- υπερβαινω hyperbaínō G5233 to step over
- υπερβαλλω hyperbállō G5235 to surpass
- υπερειδω hypereídō G5237 to overlook
- υπερεκεινα hyperékeina G5238 beyond
- υπερεκτεινω hyperekteínō G5239 to stretch beyond
- υπερεκχυνω hyperekchýnō G5240 to overflow
- υπερεντυγχανω hyperentynchánō G5241 to intercede
- υπερεχω hyperéchō G5242 to stand out
- υπερηφανος hyperḗphanos G5244 haughty
- υπερνικαω hypernikáō G5245 to overcome completely
- υπερογκος hypéronkos G5246 immoderate
- υπερπερισσευω hyperperisseúō G5248 to abound greatly
- υπερπερισσως hyperperissōs G5249 exceedingly
- υπερπλεοναζω hyperpleonázō G5250 to overflow
- υπερυψοω hyperypsóō G5251 to exalt highly
- υπερφρονεω hyperphronéō G5252 to think arrogantly
- υπερωον hyperōion G5253 upper room
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 27 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υψος appears 99 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 94 verses in 24 books.
- 99
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 94
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 24 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 24 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:15 ὕψος
- Exodus 25:10 ὕψος
- Judges 5:18 ὕψος
- 1 Samuel 17:4 ὕψος
- 2 Samuel 1:19 ὕψος
- 1 Kings 6:2 ὕψος
- 2 Kings 19:22 ὕψος
- 1 Chronicles 14:2 ὕψος
- 2 Chronicles 1:1 ὕψος
- Ezra 6:3 ὕψος
- Job 5:11 ὕψος
- Psalms 7:8 ὕψος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5311) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 94. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:15 ὕψος This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- Exodus 25:10 ὕψος "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
- Exodus 25:23 ὕψος "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.
- Exodus 27:1 ὕψος "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.
- Exodus 27:14 ὕψος The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Exodus 27:15 ὕψος For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Exodus 27:16 ὕψος For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
- Exodus 27:18 ὕψος The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
- Exodus 30:2 ὕψος Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
- Exodus 37:16 ὕψος He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
- Judges 5:18 ὕψος Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death, Naphtali, on the high places of the field.
- 1 Samuel 17:4 ὕψος There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
- 2 Samuel 1:19 ὕψος Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How are the mighty fallen!
- 2 Samuel 1:25 ὕψος How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
- 2 Samuel 22:17 ὕψος He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters;
- 2 Samuel 22:34 ὕψος He makes his feet like hinds' [feet], Sets me on my high places.
- 1 Kings 6:2 ὕψος The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the height of it thirty cubits.
- 1 Kings 6:10 ὕψος He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:20 ὕψος Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height of it; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:26 ὕψος The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
- 1 Kings 7:3 ὕψος It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.
- 1 Kings 7:4 ὕψος There were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.
- 1 Kings 7:10 ὕψος The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
- 1 Kings 7:14 ὕψος He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
- 1 Kings 7:18 ὕψος So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital.
- 1 Kings 7:39 ὕψος He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
- 2 Kings 19:22 ὕψος Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
- 2 Kings 19:23 ὕψος By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.
- 2 Kings 25:17 ὕψος The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital round about, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network.
- 1 Chronicles 14:2 ὕψος David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel's sake.
- 1 Chronicles 15:16 ὕψος David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.
- 1 Chronicles 23:17 ὕψος The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
- 1 Chronicles 29:3 ὕψος In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
- 2 Chronicles 1:1 ὕψος Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 ὕψος The porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 3:15 ὕψος Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
- 2 Chronicles 4:1 ὕψος Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the height of it.
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 ὕψος Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass; and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
- 2 Chronicles 6:13 ὕψος (for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)
- 2 Chronicles 17:12 ὕψος Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.
- 2 Chronicles 20:19 ὕψος The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.
- 2 Chronicles 32:26 ὕψος Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh didn't come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
- Ezra 6:3 ὕψος In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let the foundations of it be strongly laid; the height of it sixty cubits, and the breadth of it sixty cubits;
- Job 5:11 ὕψος So that he sets up on high those who are low, Those who mourn are exalted to safety.
- Job 39:18 ὕψος When she lifts up herself on high, She scorns the horse and his rider.
- Job 40:10 ὕψος "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
- Psalms 7:8 ὕψος Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, And to my integrity that is in me.
- Psalms 11:9 ὕψος
- Psalms 17:17 ὕψος
- Psalms 55:3 ὕψος Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5311) 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.
