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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 Box Jdg 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:20 - When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated upper room all by himself. Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." When Eglon rose up from his seat,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:23 - As Ehud went out into the vestibule, he closed the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:24 - When Ehud had left, Eglon's servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said, "He must be relieving himself in the well-ventilated inner room."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25 - They waited so long they were embarrassed, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. Finally they took the key and opened the doors. Right before their eyes was their master, sprawled out dead on the floor!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:33 - (19:1) The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, "My son, Absalom! My son, my son, Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - He said to her, "Hand me your son." He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, "See, your son is alive!"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 1:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, "Go, ask Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:10 - Let's make a small private upper room and furnish it with a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:11 - One day Elisha came for a visit; he went into the upper room and rested.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz's upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the LORD's temple. He crushed them up and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:11 - David gave to his son Solomon the blueprints for the temple porch, its buildings, its treasuries, its upper areas, its inner rooms, and the room for atonement.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:9 - The gold nails weighed 50 shekels; he also plated the upper areas with gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3 - and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:13 - He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:2 - When he heard Jeremiah's prophecy, he had the prophet flogged. Then he put him in the stocks which were at the Upper Gate of Benjamin in the LORD's temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:13 - "'Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:14 - He says, "I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms." He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:7 - The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; for the structure surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:5 - Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:10 - When Daniel realized that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. Three times daily he was kneeling and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.
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