ὕπανδρος
hýpandros · G5220 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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married
Pertaining to being legally bound to a man in marriage
ExamplesRomans 7:2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.
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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Contrasting words 2 words
- παρθένος parthénos · G3933 · virgin, young woman, chaste
- Lexically opposite in terms of marital status: παρθένος denotes an unmarried virgin, while ὕπανδρος specifically denotes a woman bound in marriage to a man. These represent the two contrasting states in ancient social categories of female status.
- χήρα chḗra · G5503 · widow
- Represents the opposite state with respect to having a living husband: ὕπανδρος is a woman under a husband's authority, while χήρα is a woman whose husband has died and who is therefore no longer under that marital bond.
In the other Testament 1 word
- אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh · H802 · woman, wife, mate
- The standard Hebrew term that can denote both 'woman' generally and 'wife' specifically when context indicates marriage. When used with a possessive (e.g., 'his wife'), it functions as the natural translation equivalent for a married woman under her husband.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Married34.75
- Romans 7:2 — “For the married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband.”
Word family 11 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὕπανδρον (ὑπό and ἀνήρ), under i. e. subject to a man: γυνή, married, Rom 7:2. ((Num…
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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