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ὑψόω

to exalt

‘to exalt’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G5312 Strong's Greek
hypsóō Transliteration
/hoop-so'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 20 appearances

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About this entry

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At its core, υψοω (hypsóō) means “to exalt.” It first appears in Matthew 11:23. Spanning 16 verses in 7 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Luke (25% of all occurrences). Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 16-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
exalt
Modern gloss
to exalt
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G5312 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 →

16
distinct verses
The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
7 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 11:23
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 11:23.
1 Peter 5:6
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Peter 5:6.
#622
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 622 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 10 · 63%
  • Acts 3 · 19%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 6%
  • General Epistles 2 · 13%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 16 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 10 verses · 63%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 7 verses · 44%
  • Johannine 4 verses · 25%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 13%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 6%

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: Exalted 4×, Shall be exalted 3×, Art exalted 2×
  • American Standard Version: Shall be exalted 3×, Be lifted up 2×, Exalted 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Exalts 3×, Will be exalted 3×, Be lifted up 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Will be exalted 3×, Be exalted 2×, Be lifted up 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5312 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Exalted” 4×
  • “Shall be exalted” 3×
  • “Art exalted” 2×
  • “Be lifted up” 2×
  • “Exalteth” 2×

Plus 9 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 G5312 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Shall be exalted” 3×
  • “Be lifted up” 2×
  • “Exalted” 2×
  • “Exalteth” 2×

Plus 12 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 G5312 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Exalts” 3×
  • “Will be exalted” 3×
  • “Be lifted up” 2×
  • “Exalted” 2×
  • “Will you be lifted up” 2×

Plus 8 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 G5312 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Will be exalted” 3×
  • “Be exalted” 2×
  • “Be lifted up” 2×
  • “Exalting” 2×
  • “Up” 2×
  • “You will” 2×

Plus 12 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.

  1. to lift up on high, to exalt
  2. metaph.

Word origin

Derived from υψος (hýpsos) (G5311) — height.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 18:06,1

From G5311 ; to elevate (literally or figuratively): - exalt lift up.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 11 distinct written forms G5312 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ὕψωσεν hýpsōsen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 1:52 4
ὑψωθήσεται hypsōthḗsetai Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 23:12 3
ὑψωθήσῃ hypsōthḗsē Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 11:23 2
ὑψωθῆναι hypsōthē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive John 3:14 2
ὑψώσει hypsṓsei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 23:12 2
ὑψῶν hypsō̂n Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 14:11 2
ὑψωθεὶς hypsōtheìs Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 2:33 1
ὑψωθῆτε hypsōthē̂te Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural 2 Corinthians 11:7 1
ὑψωθῶ hypsōthō̂ Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular John 12:32 1
ὑψώσητε hypsṓsēte Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural John 8:28 1
ὑψώσῃ hypsṓsē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 Peter 5:6 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5312, 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

Derived from this word

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word υψοω appears 160 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 157 verses in 24 books.

160
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
157
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

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5312) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 157. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5312) 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.

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