ἔξυπνος
éxypnos · G1853 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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having awakened, awake after having slept
Pertaining to having awakened
ExamplesActs 16:27 When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- γρηγορεύω grēgoreúō · G1127 · to stay awake, to be watchful, to be alert
- The primary Greek verb for being awake or watchful. While ἔξυπνος describes the state of having awakened (out of sleep), γρηγορεύω describes the ongoing state of wakefulness or vigilance. These are closely related but distinct lexemes describing the same general condition of being awake.
Contrasting words 2 words
- καθεύδω katheúdō · G2518 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep
- The standard Greek verb for sleeping, the direct opposite state to being awake. Where ἔξυπνος denotes the state of being awake (having emerged from sleep), καθεύδω denotes the state of being asleep.
- κοιμάω koimáō · G2837 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep
- Greek verb meaning to sleep or be asleep, often used both literally and figuratively (including of death). This represents the opposite state to being awake (ἔξυπνος).
In the other Testament 2 words
- עוּר ʻûwr · H5782 · to wake up, to awaken
- The standard Hebrew verb for awakening or being awakened, frequently used in contexts of arousal from sleep (both literal and metaphorical). This is the natural translation equivalent in Hebrew for the Greek state of being awake.
- יָקַץ yâqats · H3364 · to wake up, to arise
- Hebrew verb meaning to awake from sleep, commonly used in contexts describing the transition from sleep to wakefulness. A direct semantic equivalent to the Greek adjective describing the awake state.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Having awakened, awake after having slept23.75
- This adjective describes the state of having just woken from sleep, used of the Philippian jailer awakening to find the prison doors opened — "the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened" (Acts 16:27).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐξυπνον (ὕπνος), roused out of sleep: Acts 16:27. (1 Esdr. 3:3; (Josephus, Antiquities…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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