ὑπερβαίνω
hyperbaínō · G5233 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to transgress, to sin against
To transgress the will and law of God by going beyond prescribed limits
Examples1 Thessalonians 4:6 and that no one violate the rights and take advantage of his brother or sister in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you previously and solemnly warned you.
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀδελφόςbrother 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin+ πρᾶγμαhappening 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μήnot 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 1 word
- πλεονεκτέω pleonektéō · G4122 · to take advantage of, to exploit, exploitation
- Greek verb meaning 'to overreach, defraud, take advantage of' — shares the sense of transgressing proper boundaries in interpersonal dealings. Both verbs denote exceeding proper limits, with πλεονεκτέω specifically focused on greedy overreaching in relationships.
In the other Testament 1 word
- עָבַר ʻâbar · H5674 · to pass, to pass by, to pass on
- Hebrew verb for 'to pass over, transgress' — the standard Hebrew equivalent for the transgression sense of ὑπερβαίνω, used both spatially (to cross over) and ethically (to transgress boundaries). Both verbs share the semantic field of crossing beyond proper limits.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To transgress, to sin against88.296
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6 — “and that no one violate the rights and take advantage of his brother or sister in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you previously and solemnly warned you.”
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon from Homer down; to step over, go beyond; metaphorically, to transgress: δίκην, νόμου,…
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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