ὑπεραίρομαι
hyperaíromai · G5229 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to be overly proud, to be puffed up with pride, to feel overly self-confident
To become puffed up with pride, with the probable implication of being disparaging toward others
Examples2 Corinthians 12:7 Because of the extraordinary greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!
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to rise up in pride against
To exalt oneself in pride against someone or something
Examples2 Thessalonians 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: I 2
- Not stated (participle) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπίon+ λέγωto say 1
With adverbsAdverbs
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- μήnot 2
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 1
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 2 words
- φυσιόω physióō · G5448 · to make proud, to make arrogant, to make haughty
- Greek verb meaning to be puffed up or inflated with pride, overlapping with the figurative sense of ὑπεραίρομαι in contexts of arrogance and self-exaltation.
- τυφόω typhóō · G5187 · to be insanely arrogant, to be extremely proud, to be very arrogant
- Greek verb expressing being lifted up in pride or conceit, sharing the semantic range of prideful self-exaltation with ὑπεραίρομαι (cf. 1 Timothy 3:6, 6:4; 2 Timothy 3:4).
In the other Testament 3 words
- גָּבַהּ gâbahh · H1361 · to be tall, to be high, to make high
- Standard Hebrew equivalent for the concept of exalting oneself or being haughty; used frequently in contexts of pride and self-elevation (e.g., Ezekiel 31:10, Proverbs 16:18).
- רוּם rûwm · H7311 · to be high, to become high, to mount up
- Common Hebrew verb for being lifted up or exalted, used both literally and figuratively for pride and self-exaltation (e.g., Isaiah 2:12, Ezekiel 31:10).
- נָשָׂא nâsâʼ · H5375 · to become high, to be lifted up, to rise
- Hebrew verb meaning to lift up or raise, used reflexively or with heart/soul as object to convey becoming proud or haughty (e.g., Ezekiel 28:2, 5, 17).
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To rise up in pride against39.39
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4 — “who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.”
- To be overly proud, to be puffed up with pride, to feel overly self-confident88.211
- 2 Corinthians 12:7 — “Because of the extraordinary greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!”
Word family 26 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : present middle ὑπεραίρομαι; (ὑπέρ and αἴρω); to lift or raise up over something; middle…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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