Greek noun (feminine) · G5236
ὑπερβολή
hyperbolehoop-er-bol-ay'
surpassing
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hyperbolḗ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5236is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5236
a throwing beyond others, i.e. supereminence
The King James renders it: abundance, (far more) exceeding, excellency, more excellent, beyond (out of) measure.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hyperbole is rendered "surpassing". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in 2 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 7:13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
Romans 7:13ὑπερβολὴν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eight uses are in 2 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a more surpassing1
- by surpassingness1
- exceeding measure1
- excess1
- excessively1
- excessiveness1
- surpassing1
- surpassingness1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑπέρ | hyper | above/for | Uses155 |
| ὑπερέχω | hyperecho | be higher | Uses5 |
| ὑπερβάλλω | hyperballo | to surpass | Uses5 |
| ὑπερήφανος | hyperephanos | arrogant | Uses5 |
| ὑπερῷον | hyperoion | upper room | Uses4 |
| ὑπεράνω | hyperano | above | Uses3 |
| ὑπεραίρομαι | hyperairomai | be haughty | Uses3 |
| ὑπεροχή | hyperoche | authority | Uses2 |
| ὑπέρογκος | hyperonkos | boastful | Uses2 |
| ὑπερπερισσεύω | hyperperisseuo | to abound | Uses2 |
| ὑπερείδω | hypereido | to overlook | Uses1 |
| ὑπερυψόω | hyperypsoo | to exalt | Uses1 |
and 13 more on the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ὑπερβολὴν6
- ὑπερβολὴ1
- ὑπερβολῇ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular6N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Romans
one use
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
- ὑπερβολὴνhuperbolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: excess
1 Corinthians
one use
But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.
- ὑπερβολὴνhuperbolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a more surpassing
2 Corinthians
five uses
We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
- ὑπερβολὴνhuperbolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: excessively
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
- ὑπερβολὴhuperbolenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: surpassingness
For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
- ὑπερβολὴνhuperbolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: surpassing
- ὑπερβολὴνhuperbolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: excessiveness
or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
- ὑπερβολῇhuperboleanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: by surpassingness
Galatians
one use
For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
- ὑπερβολὴνhuperbolennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: exceeding measure
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.