Word

ὑπερῷον

hyperōion · G5253 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Thing

Upper room, roof chamberRoom29 verses

Meanings

upstairs room

A room on the level above the ground floor (second story in American usage and first story in most other languages)

Examples
Acts 1:13 When they had entered the city, they went up to the upstairs room where they were staying, that is, Peter, John, James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
Acts 9:37 But it happened at that time that she became sick and died; and when they had washed her body, they laid it in an upstairs room.
Acts 9:39 So Peter got ready and went with them. When he arrived, they brought him into the room upstairs; and all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing all the tunics and garments that Dorcas used to make while she was with them.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

εἰμίto be 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

λαμπάςlamp, torch 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

εἰςto 5
ἐνin 4

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

ἀνώγεον anṓgeon · G508 · upstairs room: Both terms denote an elevated interior room within a building — an upper story or upstairs chamber. The target may denote the upper story or a room on a higher floor more generally, while ἀνώγεον specifically designates a room above the ground floor; this is a difference of degree or specificity within the same architectural concept, not a difference in the buildings or spaces referred to.

In the other Testament 1 word

עֲלִיָּה ʻălîyâh · H5944 · upper room, roof chamber: Hebrew עֲלִיָּה and Greek ὑπερῷον both denote an upper-story room or chamber within a building — an upstairs or roof chamber — and the Greek term serves as the standard translation of the Hebrew word in architectural contexts in the Septuagint.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Upstairs room7.27: Acts 1:13 — “When they had entered the city, they went up to the upstairs room where they were staying, that is, Peter, John, James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.”

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὑπεροωυ, τό (from ὑπεροως or ὑπερωιος, 'upper,' and this from ὑπέρ; like πατρωιος,…

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 Kgs 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, Acts 9:39; Acts 20:8 (Josephus, Vita30).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Parts and Areas of Buildings4 occurrences

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