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Lexicon :: Strong's G5253 - hyperōon

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ὑπερῷον
Transliteration
hyperōon (Key)
Pronunciation
hoop-er-o'-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of ὑπέρ (G5228)
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Strong’s Definitions

ὑπερῷον hupĕrōiŏn, hoop-er-o'-on; neuter of a derivative of G5228; a higher part of the house, i.e. apartment in the third story:—upper chamber (room).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G5253 in the following manner: upper chamber (3x), upper room (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G5253 in the following manner: upper chamber (3x), upper room (1x).

  1. the highest part of the house, the upper rooms or story where the women resided

  2. a room in the upper part of a house, sometimes built upon the flat roof of the house, whither Orientals were wont to retire in order to sup, meditate, pray

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὑπερῷον hupĕrōiŏn, hoop-er-o'-on; neuter of a derivative of G5228; a higher part of the house, i.e. apartment in the third story:—upper chamber (room).
STRONGS G5253:
ὑπεροων, ὑπεροωυ, τό (from ὑπεροως or ὑπερωιος, 'upper,' and this from ὑπέρ; like πατρωιος, πατροως, from πατήρ; (cf. Winers Grammar, 96 (91))), in the Greek writings (often in Homer) the highest part of the house, the upper rooms or story where the women resided; in Biblical Greek (the Sept. for עֲלִיָּה), a room in the upper part of a house, sometimes built upon the flat roof of the house (2 Kings 23:12), whither Orientals were accustomed to retire in order to sup, meditate, pray, etc.; (R. V. upper chamber; cf. B. D. under the word; McClintock and Strong, under the word): Acts 1:13; Acts 9:37, 39; Acts 20:8 (Josephus, Vita30).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Kings
23:12
Acts
1:13; 9:37; 9:39; 20:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5253 matches the Greek ὑπερῷον (hyperōon),
which occurs 21 times in 21 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:20 - And Aod went in to him; and he sat in his own upper summer chamber quite alone; and Aod said, I have a message from God to thee, O king: and Eglom rose up from his throne near him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23 - And Aod went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed guards, and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 - And he went out: and [fn]Eglom's servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25 - And they waited till they were ashamed, and, behold, there [fn]was no one that opened the doors of the upper chamber; and they took the key, and opened them; and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:33 - (LXX 19:1) And the king was troubled, and went to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and thus he said as he went, My son Abessalom, my son, my son Abessalom; [fn]would God I had died for thee, even I had died for thee, Abessalom, my son, my son!

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - And Eliu said to the woman, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and took him up to the chamber in which he himself lodged, and [fn]laid him on the bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - and he brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and gave him to his mother; and Eliu said, See, thy son lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - And Ochozias fell through the lattice that was in his upper chamber in Samaria, and was sick; and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go and enquire of Baal fly, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my sickness. And they went to enquire of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:10 - Let us now make for him an upper chamber, a small place; and let us put there for him a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall come to pass that when he comes in to us, he shall [fn]turn in thither.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:11 - And a day came, and he went in thither, and turned aside into the upper chamber, and lay there.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from thence, and cast their dust into the brook of Kedron.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:11 - And David gave Solomon his son the plan of the temple, and its buildings, and its treasuries, and its upper chambers, and the inner store-rooms, and the place of the atonement,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:9 - And the weight of the nails, even the weight of each was fifty shekels of gold: and he gilded the upper chamber with gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3 - (LXX 103:3) Who covers his chambers with waters; who makes the clouds his chariot; who walks on the wings of the wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:13 - (LXX 103:13) He waters the mountains from his chambers: the earth shall be satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:2 - And he smote him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:13 - He that builds his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment, who works by means of his neighbour for nothing, and will by no means give him his reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:14 - Thou hast built for thyself a well-proportioned house, airy chambers, fitted with windows, and wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:7 - And the breadth of the upper side was made according to the projection out of the wall, against the upper one round about the house, that it might be enlarged above, and that men might go up to the upper chambers from those below, and from the ground-sills to the third story.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:5 - And the upper walks were in like manner: for the peristyle projected from it, even from the range of columns below, and there was a space between; so were there a peristyle and a space between, and so were there two porticos.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:10 - (LXX 6:11) And when Daniel knew that the decree was ordered, he went into his house; and his windows were opened in his chambers toward Jerusalem, and three times in the day he knelt upon his knees, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he used to do before.
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