huperōem

Strong’sG5253

an upper room

stem huperō-4 times in the New Testament1 of 6 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.

ὑπερῷον, -ου, τό

(neut. of ὑπερῷος, above, < ὑπέρ) [in LXX for עֲלִיָּה and cogn. forms;]

1. in cl., the upper story or upper rooms where the women resided (Hom., a1.).

2. In LXX and NT, an upper chamber, roof-chamber, built on the flat roof of the house (v. DB, iii, 674a): Ac 1:13 9:37, 39 20:8 (cf. IV Ki 23:22).†

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

Strong’s G5253 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhoop-er-o'-on

a higher part of the house, i.e. apartment in the third story

Fromneuter of a derivative of G5228;

King Jamesupper chamber (room).

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

ὑπερῷον,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect ὑπερ-ώϊον, τό, the upper part of the house, where the women resided, παρθένος αἰδοίη ὑπερώϊον εἰσαναβᾶσα Refs 8th c.BC+; ὑπερωϊόθεν φρεσὶ σύνθετο θέσπιν ἀοιδὴν.. Πηνελόπεια from her chamber she heard it, Refsupper chamber or story, NT+2nd c.AD+
2 attic, garret, Refs 5th c.BC+; of a spare room, 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.

upper room4×

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	one singular	more than one plural
subject or object direct	huperōem	huperōeim
of, belonging to genitive	huperōeu	huperōeiu
to, for dative	huperōe2×ὑπερῴῳ	huperōei

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

huperōstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

huperōe 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.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

huperōe“upper room”to, fordative singular2×

Acts 9:37… apothnēskara; louarantois de tithala autan en huperōe.… was washed and placed in an upper room.

Acts 20:8ale de lampadais hikanais en te huperōe hou ane sunagorēntois;… there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.

huperōem2×

Acts 1:13kai hote eiserchala, eis tem huperōem anabainala hou ale katamenarōntois, tos tē …… they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and …

Acts 9:39… autoi; hon parageneranton anagala eis tem huperōem, kai parastēala auto pantais tais chērais …… arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him …