huperanō

Strong’sG5231

far above

stem huperanō-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 booksnever changes form

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.

ὑπερ-άνω

compound adv.,

[in LXX for עַל, מֵעָל, etc.;]

above: as prep. c. gen., Eph 1:21 4:10, He 9:5.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5231 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhoop-er-an'-o

above upward, i.e. greatly higher (in place or rank)

Fromfrom G5228 and G507;

King Jamesfar above, over.

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

ὑπεράνω [ᾰ],
adverb above, opposed to ὑποκάτω, Refs 2nd c.BC+; οἰκεῖν Refs 2nd c.AD+; above the horizon, LXX+4th c.BC+; ὑ. γίγνεσθαί τινος to get the upper hand of,Refs 1st c.BC+; ποιεῖν or ποιεῖσθαί τινα or τι ὑ. τινός, Refs 1st c.AD+; πάντων ὑ. ποιεῖν act more nobly than all others, Refs 3rd c.AD+
2 οἱ ὑ. πλεονασμοί excessive repetitions, Refs 2nd c.BC+; but μίαν ὑ. ποιότητα one supreme quality, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 of time, further back, ἐκ τῶν ὑ. χρόνων Refs 1st c.BC+
4 above, in a document, [ψηφίσματα] ὑ. γεγραμμένα Refs 2nd 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.

far above2×above1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

huperanō3×

Ephesians 1:21huperanō pantau archau kai exousiau kai dunamiau …far above all rule and authority, power and …

Ephesians 4:10“far above”… katabainarantos autos atō kai tos anabainarantos huperanō pantoiu toiu ouranoiu, hina plērateia teim …He who descended is the very One who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.

Hebrews 9:5huperanō de autau Cheroubeim doxau kataskiazarōnteim tem …Above the ark were the cherubim of …