ὑποχωρέω
hypochōréō · G5298 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to withdraw, to retire, to go off, to go away
To move away from a location, implying a considerable distance
How it’s used In 2 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: he, she or it 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἰςto+ πόλιςcity 1
- κατάaccording to, against, down+ ἴδιοςone’s own 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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Contrasting words 2 words
- προσέρχομαι prosérchomai · G4334 · to move toward, to approach, to come near to
- Greek verb meaning to approach or come near, the lexical opposite of withdrawing or retiring away
- ἐγγίζω engízō · G1448 · to draw near, to come near, to approach
- Greek verb for drawing near or approaching, directly opposite to the action of withdrawing or retiring that ὑποχωρέω expresses
In the other Testament 2 words
- סוּג çûwg · H5472 · to step back, to retreat, to cause to step back
- Hebrew verb for withdrawing or moving back, a direct translation equivalent for the action of retiring or withdrawing that ὑποχωρέω denotes
- נָסַג nâçag · H5253 · to step back, to retreat, to cause to step back
- Hebrew verb for retreating or withdrawing, particularly in contexts of moving back or departing from a place
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To withdraw, to retire, to go off, to go away15.53
- Luke 5:16 says that Jesus Himself “would often slip away to the wilderness and pray”.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὑποχώρω; 1 aorist ὑπεχώρησα; from Homer down; to go back (see ὑπό, III. 1 at the end); to…
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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