adjective
hupēkoos
Strong’sG5255
listening to, obedient
stem hupēko-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὑπήκοος, -ον
(< ὑπακούω), [in LXX: Jo 17:13 (לָמַם) Pr 21:28 (שׁוֺמֵעַ), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5255 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhoop-ay'-ko-os
attentively listening, i.e. (by implication) submissive
Fromfrom G5219;
King Jamesobedient.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἀκοή) hearkening, ἀμφοτέροισι perhaps answering with both gifts, Refs; a hearer, scholar, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II obeying, subject, with genitive, Πέρσας Μήδων ὑπηκόους ἐποίησε Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 with dative, Refs 5th c.BC+; also ναυσὶ καὶ οὐ φόρῳ ὑ. liable to furnish.. (compare ὑποτελής), Refs 5th c.BC+; τροφὴ ὑ. τῇ πέψει easy of digestion, Refs 1st c.AD+; ὕλη ὑ. phlegm easily brought up, Refs 4th c.BC+
III absolutely as substantive, ὑπήκοοι, οἱ, subjects, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ὑ. (i.e. χώρα) Refs 2nd c.AD+; τὸ ὑ. ={οἱ ὑ}., τὸ ὑ. τῶν ξυμμάχων Refs 5th c.BC+; the subject allies of Athens were called ὑπήκοοι, opposed to αὐτόνομοι, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hupēkoos1×ὑπήκοος | hupēkoas | hupēkoem | hupēkoois2×ὑπήκοοι | hupēkoais | hupēkoeim |
| object accusative | hupēkoon | hupēkoan | hupēkooin | hupēkoain | ||
| direct address vocative | hupēkoor | hupēkoar | hupēkooir | hupēkoair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | hupēkoou | hupēkoau | hupēkoeu | hupēkooiu | hupēkoaiu | hupēkoeiu |
| to, for dative | hupēkoo | hupēkoa | hupēkoe | hupēkooi | hupēkoai | hupēkoei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hupēko is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
hupēkoos“obedient”subjectnominative singular1×
Philippians 2:8tapeinata heauton generantos hupēkoos mechris thanatou, thanatou de staurou;… man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death — even death on a …
hupēkoois“willing”subjectnominative plural2×
Acts 7:39“willing”ho ouk thelala hupēkoois genera tois patrois nu, alla apōthela …But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and …
2 Corinthians 2:9… tan dokiman vu, ei eis panteim hupēkoois avō.… would stand the test and be obedient in everything.