Greek noun (feminine) · G5287
ὑπόστασις
hypostasishoop-os'-tas-is
a support, base or foundation (in various senses).; substance; steadiness, firmness (Polyb., al.)
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hypóstasis
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5287is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5287
a setting under (support), i.e. (figuratively) concretely, essence, or abstractly, assurance (objectively or subjectively)
The King James renders it: confidence, confident, person, substance.
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
hypostasis is rendered "a support, base or foundation (in various senses).; substance; steadiness, firmness (Polyb., al.)". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "a support, base or foundation (in various senses).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Corinthians 9:4Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.
2 Corinthians 9:4ὑποστάσει
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Hebrews.
What the word means
The word carries three meanings: a support, base or foundation (in various senses)., and substance, and steadiness, firmness (Polyb., al.).
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a support, base or foundation (in various senses). | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where2 Corinthians 9:4Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared… |
| substance | Tagged as
| WhereHebrews 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature… |
| steadiness, firmness (Polyb., al.)hence, assurance, confidence | Tagged as
| Where2 Corinthians 9:4Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared… |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑποστρέφω | hypostrepho | to return | Uses35 |
| ὑποστέλλω | hypostello | to withdraw | Uses4 |
| ὑποστολή | hypostole | shrinking | Uses1 |
| ὑποστρώννυμι | hypostronnymi | to spread | Uses1 |
All 5, 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
- ὑποστάσει2
- ὑποστάσεως2
- ὑπόστασις1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular2N-DSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
2 Corinthians
two uses
Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.
- ὑποστάσειhupostaseinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: confidence
In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
- ὑποστάσειhupostaseinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: confidence
Hebrews
three uses
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
- ὑποστάσεωςhupostaseosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: substance
We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
- ὑποστάσεωςhupostaseosnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: assurance
Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.
- ὑπόστασιςhupostasisnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: assurance
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.