ὕψιστος
hýpsistos · G5310 · Greek · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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high, world above, sky, heaven, on high
A location above the earth and associated with supernatural events or beings
ExamplesMatthew 21:9 Now the crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David; BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD; Hosanna in the highest!”
Mark 11:10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David; Hosanna in the highest!”
Luke 2:14 “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among people with whom He is pleased.”
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the Most High, the Highest, the Supreme One
(A title for God, literally: highest) One who is supreme, primarily a reference to status
ExamplesMark 5:7 and shouting with a loud voice, he said, “What business do You have with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!”
Luke 1:32 “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David;
Luke 1:35 The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; for that reason also the holy Child will be called the Son of God.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- θεόςGod 4
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κατοικέωto dwell, to live 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- ὡσαννάhosanna 2
- δόξαglory 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- υἱόςson 2
- δύναμιςpower, mighty deed 1
- προφήτηςprophet 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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In the other Testament 3 words
- עֶלְיוֹן ʻelyôwn · H5945 · high, upper, top
- Hebrew עֶלְיוֹן and Greek ὕψιστος both function as substantive adjectives denoting 'Most High' or 'highest' and serve as titles/epithets for God, particularly in contexts emphasizing divine supremacy; the Greek term regularly translates the Hebrew in LXX passages referring to God as ὁ ὕψιστος ('the Most High'), establishing a direct translation equivalence across both testaments.
- מָרוֹם mârôwm · H4791 · high, upwards, high position
- מָרוֹם (mârôwm, H4791) מָרוֹם denotes physical or metaphorical height/elevation as a noun, while ὕψιστος (hýpsistos, G5310) ὕψιστος functions as a superlative adjective meaning 'highest' and frequently serves as a divine title ('the Most High')—the equivalence holds where Hebrew noun constructs expressing height semantically align with Greek superlative usage in elevation or supremacy contexts.
- עֶלְיוֹן ʻelyôwn · H5946 · Most high
- Hebrew עֶלְיוֹן (ʻelyôwn, H5946) and Greek ὕψιστος (hýpsistos, G5310) both denote the superlative concept 'Most High' as a divine epithet, functioning as cross-linguistic translation equivalents for this supreme/highest designation of God.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὑψιστη, ὕψιστον (superlative; from ὕψι on high), in Greek writings mostly poetic,…
a. of place: neuter τά ὑψιστα (the Sept. for מְרומִים), the highest regions, i. e. heaven (see ὑψηλός, a.), Mt 21:9; Mk 11:10; Lk 2:14; Lk 19:38, (Job 16:19; Isa 57:15).
b. of rank: of God, ὁ Θεός ὁ ὕψιστος, the most high God, Mk 5:7; Lk 8:28; Acts 16:17; Heb 7:1; (Gen 14:18; Philo de leg. ad Gaium § 23); and simply ὁ ὕψιστος, the Most High, Acts 7:48; mid without the article (cf. Buttmann, § 124, 8 b. note; (WH. Introductory § 416)), Lk 1:32, Lk 1:35, Lk 1:76; Lk 6:35, and very often in Sir.; (Hebrew אֶלְיון, עֶלְיון אֵל, עֶלְיון אֱלֹהִים, עֶליון יְהוָה; Ζεύς ὕψιστος, Pindar Nem. 1, 90; 11, 2; Aeschylus Eum. 28).
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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