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GreekG5253Noun (Neuter)

ὑπερῷον

huperōon

4Occurrences
G5253Strong's #
Noun (Neuter)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

neuter of a derivative of G5228 (ὑπέρ);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
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 (see DB, iii, 674a)
LXX: for עֲלִיָּה and cogn. forms

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Neuter)

Morphology Code

G:N-N

Full Description

Greek Noun, Neuter

Occurrences

ὑπερῷον appears 4 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Acts
4

Key Passages

Acts 1:13BSB

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 20:8BSB

Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.

Acts 9:37BSB

At that time, however, she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upper room.

Acts 9:39BSB

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.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.