Strong G5229ὑπεραίρω
be haughty
- Transliteration
- huperairomai
- Pronunciation
- hoop-er-ah'ee-rom-ahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
ὑπερ-αίρω
[in LXX: 2Ch.32:23 (נָשָׂא ni.), etc.;]
to lift or raise over. Mid., to uplift oneself: 2Co.12:7; before ἐπί, with accusative, of person(s), 2Th.2:4 (cf. 2Ma.5:23).†
(AS)
[in LXX: 2Ch.32:23 (נָשָׂא ni.), etc.;]
to lift or raise over. Mid., to uplift oneself: 2Co.12:7; before ἐπί, with accusative, of person(s), 2Th.2:4 (cf. 2Ma.5:23).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5229 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- exalteth1
- should1
First verses
- 2 Corinthians 12:7And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὑπεραίρω,
lift or raise up over, εἰς τὸν ἔξω τόπον τὴν τοῦ ἡνιόχου κεφαλήν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 248a; τὴν ὀφρῦν ὑπὲρ τοὺς κροτάφους 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 54)]; ἑρμάτων ὑ. τὸ σκάφος over the rocks, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.23)]; ὑ. τὸ φθέγμα raise it very high, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ner.” 9)]:—middle, lift oneself or rise above, πάντων [Refs (Anonymus in Rhetores Graeci 1.632)] W.: absolutely, to be lifted up, [NT (NT.2Cor.12.7)]; give oneself airs, be coy, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 1.17, 2.6)]; exalt oneself above, ἐπὶ θεόν [NT (NT.2Thes.2.4.)]
2 heighten, ναῦν τοίχοις [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.35.)]
II intransitive,
II.1 with accusative, jump over, τειχία [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 8.3)]; cross, Ἄλπεις [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.23.1; ὑ. τὸ πέλαγος)]pass over, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.28.1)]; ὑ. τὴν ἄκραν double the cape, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.54.7)]; κάμψαντες τὸν Πάχυνον ὑ. [τὸ πέλαγος] εἰς.. [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.25.8; also τὸν Καταράκτην “OGI” 654.6 (Egypt, 1st c.BC))]: absolutely, cross the sea, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.47.2)]: as naval and military term, outflank, τὸ λαιὸν τῶν πολεμίων [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.50.6, compare 3.73.7)], etc.: without a sense of motion, rise above, τὸ ὕδωρ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.8.10; τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ δένδρου [prev. author] “CP” 5.14.9.)]
II.2 excel, τινι in a thing, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.220)]: with accusative, excel, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] 60.21, Aristeas 16, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Heroicus” 2.19; τοὺς πρὸ ἑαυτοῦ ἡγεμονεύσαντας “SIG” 877 A 5 (Delph., 2nd-3rd c.AD))]; νοῦν ὑπεραίρει [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.22.)]
II.3 overshoot, go beyond, μήθ᾽ ὑπεράρας μήθ᾽ ὑποκάμψας καιρόν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 786 (_anapaest meter_); ὑ. τὸν ὡρισμένον καιρόν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.14.11; τὴν συνήθειαν [prev. author] 28.14.2)]; exceed, ὑ. τῆς οὐσίας τὸ μέγεθος ὁ τῶν τέκνων ἀριθμός [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1266b11; οὗ ἡ πρόνοια τὰς πάντων εὐχὰς οὐκ ἐπλήρωσε μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπερῆρε “BMus.Inscription” 894.8 (Halic., 1st c.AD))]; πυγωνιαῖον ἢ μικρὸν ὑπεραῖρον a little more, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.6.8)]; τῶν ὑπεραιρόντων ἱερέων the priests in excess (of a certain number), [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“BGU” 1.16 (3rd c.AD))]; τῶν ὑπεραιρούντων (sic) τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἱερέων [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“PLond.” 2.347.6 (3rd c.AD))]; τὸ ὑπεραῖρον ἀργύριον the money (received) in excess, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 976.27 (Samos, 2nd c.BC))]; τοσοῦτον ἐν [τοῖς δαπανηθεῖσιν] ὑπερῆρεν [αὐτόν] he so far exceeded him in his expenditure, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 37.8)]; λόγος ὑπεραίρων τοῖς ὀνόμασι καὶ ταῖς γνώμαις overdone, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 8.6)]; τὸ ὑπεραῖρον exaggeration, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 16.12.9.)]
III with genitive, pass beyond, double a cape, τοῦ ἀκρωτηρίου [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.24)]; rise above, τῆς γῆς [Refs ([prev. author] “Her.” 19.16.)]
III.2 transcend, exceed, μήθ᾽ ὑπεραίροντα τῶν εἰθισμένων ὄγκων (τὸν εἰθ. ὄγκον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes) μήτ᾽ ἐλλείποντα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 717d, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 75.13 (with _genitive_), etc.; ὑ. τῷ μεγέθει τινῶν 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.91, etc.)]; overcome, τέχνῃ τοῦ ῥοθίου [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 7.26.)]
III.3 with genitive, despise,[Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 1.2, 3rd c.AD: Philostratus Junior Sophista “Imagines” 7.)]
IV overflow, τὰ ἀγγεῖα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 835a32)]: absolutely, of a stream, ὑ. εἰς τὰ χωρία [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 55.10.)]
IV.2 ὑ. ὑπέρ τι project beyond.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 12.9)]; οἱ ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ ζυγῷ ὑ. τοὺς πρωτοστάτας πήχεις σ, i.e. their σάρισαι project beyond.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Tactica - Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller” 14.4)]; ὑπεραίρειν ἔξω τὰ βλέφαρα project beyond the eyelids, of a tumour, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 7.36)], compare 15; overlap, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Aristarchus Samius Astronomus 8.)]
V Ὑπεραίρων, οντος, ὁ, Most Excellent, = Latin Exsuperatorius, name given to December by Commodus, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 72.15.)]
lift or raise up over, εἰς τὸν ἔξω τόπον τὴν τοῦ ἡνιόχου κεφαλήν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 248a; τὴν ὀφρῦν ὑπὲρ τοὺς κροτάφους 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 54)]; ἑρμάτων ὑ. τὸ σκάφος over the rocks, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.23)]; ὑ. τὸ φθέγμα raise it very high, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ner.” 9)]:—middle, lift oneself or rise above, πάντων [Refs (Anonymus in Rhetores Graeci 1.632)] W.: absolutely, to be lifted up, [NT (NT.2Cor.12.7)]; give oneself airs, be coy, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 1.17, 2.6)]; exalt oneself above, ἐπὶ θεόν [NT (NT.2Thes.2.4.)]
2 heighten, ναῦν τοίχοις [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.35.)]
II intransitive,
II.1 with accusative, jump over, τειχία [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 8.3)]; cross, Ἄλπεις [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.23.1; ὑ. τὸ πέλαγος)]pass over, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.28.1)]; ὑ. τὴν ἄκραν double the cape, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.54.7)]; κάμψαντες τὸν Πάχυνον ὑ. [τὸ πέλαγος] εἰς.. [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.25.8; also τὸν Καταράκτην “OGI” 654.6 (Egypt, 1st c.BC))]: absolutely, cross the sea, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.47.2)]: as naval and military term, outflank, τὸ λαιὸν τῶν πολεμίων [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.50.6, compare 3.73.7)], etc.: without a sense of motion, rise above, τὸ ὕδωρ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.8.10; τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ δένδρου [prev. author] “CP” 5.14.9.)]
II.2 excel, τινι in a thing, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.220)]: with accusative, excel, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] 60.21, Aristeas 16, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Heroicus” 2.19; τοὺς πρὸ ἑαυτοῦ ἡγεμονεύσαντας “SIG” 877 A 5 (Delph., 2nd-3rd c.AD))]; νοῦν ὑπεραίρει [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.22.)]
II.3 overshoot, go beyond, μήθ᾽ ὑπεράρας μήθ᾽ ὑποκάμψας καιρόν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 786 (_anapaest meter_); ὑ. τὸν ὡρισμένον καιρόν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.14.11; τὴν συνήθειαν [prev. author] 28.14.2)]; exceed, ὑ. τῆς οὐσίας τὸ μέγεθος ὁ τῶν τέκνων ἀριθμός [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1266b11; οὗ ἡ πρόνοια τὰς πάντων εὐχὰς οὐκ ἐπλήρωσε μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπερῆρε “BMus.Inscription” 894.8 (Halic., 1st c.AD))]; πυγωνιαῖον ἢ μικρὸν ὑπεραῖρον a little more, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.6.8)]; τῶν ὑπεραιρόντων ἱερέων the priests in excess (of a certain number), [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“BGU” 1.16 (3rd c.AD))]; τῶν ὑπεραιρούντων (sic) τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἱερέων [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“PLond.” 2.347.6 (3rd c.AD))]; τὸ ὑπεραῖρον ἀργύριον the money (received) in excess, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 976.27 (Samos, 2nd c.BC))]; τοσοῦτον ἐν [τοῖς δαπανηθεῖσιν] ὑπερῆρεν [αὐτόν] he so far exceeded him in his expenditure, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 37.8)]; λόγος ὑπεραίρων τοῖς ὀνόμασι καὶ ταῖς γνώμαις overdone, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 8.6)]; τὸ ὑπεραῖρον exaggeration, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 16.12.9.)]
III with genitive, pass beyond, double a cape, τοῦ ἀκρωτηρίου [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.24)]; rise above, τῆς γῆς [Refs ([prev. author] “Her.” 19.16.)]
III.2 transcend, exceed, μήθ᾽ ὑπεραίροντα τῶν εἰθισμένων ὄγκων (τὸν εἰθ. ὄγκον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes) μήτ᾽ ἐλλείποντα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 717d, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 75.13 (with _genitive_), etc.; ὑ. τῷ μεγέθει τινῶν 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.91, etc.)]; overcome, τέχνῃ τοῦ ῥοθίου [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 7.26.)]
III.3 with genitive, despise,[Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 1.2, 3rd c.AD: Philostratus Junior Sophista “Imagines” 7.)]
IV overflow, τὰ ἀγγεῖα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 835a32)]: absolutely, of a stream, ὑ. εἰς τὰ χωρία [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 55.10.)]
IV.2 ὑ. ὑπέρ τι project beyond.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 12.9)]; οἱ ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ ζυγῷ ὑ. τοὺς πρωτοστάτας πήχεις σ, i.e. their σάρισαι project beyond.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Tactica - Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller” 14.4)]; ὑπεραίρειν ἔξω τὰ βλέφαρα project beyond the eyelids, of a tumour, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 7.36)], compare 15; overlap, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Aristarchus Samius Astronomus 8.)]
V Ὑπεραίρων, οντος, ὁ, Most Excellent, = Latin Exsuperatorius, name given to December by Commodus, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 72.15.)]