noun · neuter

huperōem

Greekὑπερῷον (huperōon)

Strong’sG5253

an upper room

stem huperō-4 times in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur

Translated as

upper room4×

What it means

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.

Every form

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

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

huperōe“upper room”to, fordative singular2×

Acts 9:37“upper room”gineta de en tai hēmerai ekeinai asthenaratan autan apothnēskara; louaratois de tithala autan en huperōe.At that time, however, she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upper room.

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

huperōem2×

Acts 1:13“upper room”kai hote eiserchala, eis tem huperōem anabainala hou ale katamenarōtois, tos tē Petros kai Iōannos kai Iakōbos kai Andreos, Filippos kai Thōmaos, Bartholomaios kai Mathaios, Iakōbos Halfaiou kai Simōnos tos zēlōtos kai Ioudaos Iakōbou.When they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.

Acts 9:39“upper room”anistanaratos de Petros sunerchata autoi; hon paragineraton anagala eis tem huperōem, kai paristanala auto pantais tais chērais klaiarōtais kai epideiknuerōtais chitōnoin kai himatieim hoseim poiate meta autaiu arōtas tas Dorkadas.So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.