Strong G5236ὑπερβολή
surpassing
- Transliteration
- huperbolē
- Pronunciation
- hoop-er-bol-ay'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Detailed definition
ὑπερ-βολή, -ῆς, ἡ
(ὑπερβάλλω), [in LXX: καθ᾽ ὑ., 4Ma.3:18 *;]
a throwing beyond. Metaphorical, excess, superiority, excellence: 2Co.4:7 12:7; καθ᾽ ὑπερβολήν, beyond measure, exceedingly, Rom.7:13, 1Co.12:31, 2Co.1:8, Gal.1:13; κ. ὑ. εἰς ὑ., beyond all measure, 2Co.4:17.†
(AS)
(ὑπερβάλλω), [in LXX: καθ᾽ ὑ., 4Ma.3:18 *;]
a throwing beyond. Metaphorical, excess, superiority, excellence: 2Co.4:7 12:7; καθ᾽ ὑπερβολήν, beyond measure, exceedingly, Rom.7:13, 1Co.12:31, 2Co.1:8, Gal.1:13; κ. ὑ. εἰς ὑ., beyond all measure, 2Co.4:17.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5236 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- exceed2
- measure2
- abundance1
- excellency1
- excellent1
- far1
First verses
- Romans 7:13Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
- 1 Corinthians 12:31But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
- 2 Corinthians 1:8For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
- 2 Corinthians 4:7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
- 2 Corinthians 4:17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
- 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.
- Galatians 1:13For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὑπερβολ-ή, ἡ,
(ὑπερβάλλω) a throwing beyond others, δίσκων ὑπερβολαῖς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.19)]: in intransitive sense, altitude of a star, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 342b32.)]
2 overshooting, superiority, χερῶν ὑπερβολαῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 434; στρατιᾶς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.31.)]
3 excess, τοῦ μεγέθεος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 1)]; opposed to ἔλλειψις or ἔνδεια, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356a, 357a, 357b; θερμασίης 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.65; ὑ. δισσὴ.., τῷ ποσῷ καὶ τῷ ποιῷ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 668b14)]; ὑπερβολὴν τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἔχειν with accusative et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.33, etc.: hence in various phrases, χρημάτων ὑπερβολῇ.. πρίασθαι)] at an extravagant price, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 232)]; ἐπέφερον τὴν ὑ. τοῦ καινοῦσθαι pushed on their extravagance in revolutionizing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82)]; οὐκ ἔχον ἐστὶν ὑπερβολήν it can go no further, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.119, compare 25.54; ἃ μηδὲ πιθανὰς τὰς ὑ. ἔχει 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἥρως” 62)]; so οὐδεμίαν or μηδεμίαν ὑ. λείπειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.5,110, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.25; οὐδεμίαν ὑ. καταλείπων φιλοτιμίας “SIG” 545.13 (Delph., 3rd c.BC))]; εἴ τις ὑ. τούτου if there is aught beyond (worse than) this, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.66, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.42)]; ταῦτ᾽ οὐχ ὑ.; is not this the extreme, the last degree? [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.38)]; ὑπερβολὴν ποιήσομαι I will put an extreme case, [Refs ([prev. author] 19.332)]; τοσαύτην ὑ. ποιεῖσθαι ὥστε.. to go so far that.., [Refs ([prev. author] 18.190: followed by a _genitive_, ὑ. ποιεῖσθαι ἐκείνων τῆς αὑτοῦ βδελυρίας)] to carry his own rascality beyond theirs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 22.52, compare 23.201, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.22, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.38)]; ὑ. ποιεῖν τῆς τιμῆς to raise the price, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1259a26; εἰς ὑ. εὐδαιμονίας ἥκειν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.14; τοσαύτας ὑ. δωρειῶν παρές χηται 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.141)]; ὑ. ἀνοίας ἔχειν Polystr.p.27 W.
4 with preposition in Adverbial phrases, ={ὑπερβαλλόντως}, εἰς ὑπερβολήν in excess, exceedingly; εἰς ὑ. ἄμεινον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 494; ἀγαθὸς εἰς ὑ. 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 80.11; ἐς ὑ. ἐκθερμαίνεσθαι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.65: with _genitive_, κτήσαιτ᾽ ἂν ὄλβον εἰς ὑ. πατρός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 282.6 (variant{εἰς ὑπεκτροφὴν πάτρας}))]; far beyond, τοῦ πρόσθεν εἰς ὑ. πανοῦργος, i. e. far more wicked, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Hipp.” 939, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 61.33; ἀναλίσκειν πάντα εἰς ὑπερβολάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 326d:— ἐξ ὑπερβολῆς 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.15.8:)] —καθ᾽ ὑπερβολὰν τοξεύσας with surpassing aim, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1196 (Lyric poetry); καθ᾽ ὑ. ἐπαινεῖν)]extravagantly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.11)]; οἱ καθ᾽ ὑ. ἐν ἐνδείᾳ ὄντες in extremity of need, [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1295b18; αἱ καθ᾽ ὑ. ἡδοναί [prev. author] “EN” 1151a12; τὸ καθ᾽ ὑ. τραχύ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Po.Herc.” 994.35; καθ᾽ ὑ. ἁμαρτωλός NT.Rom.7.13: with _genitive_, καθ᾽ ὑ. φιλοδοξίας “OGI” 472.9 (Didyma, 1st c.AD))]:—so in dative, εὐτελὴς ὑπερβολῇ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 615; παχεῖ᾽ ὑ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 41; ὑ. ἀγαθός 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 625a29, etc.)]
5 preeminence, perfection, without any notion of excess, δι᾽ ἀρετῆς ὑπερβολήν [Refs ([prev. author] “EN” 1145a24, compare “Rh.” 1367b1, “Pol.” 1284a4)]; ἡ ὑ. τῆς φιλίας the best and noblest kind of friendship, [Refs ([prev. author] “EN” 1166b1)]; but ἡ καθ᾽ ὑ. φιλία, ={ἡ καθ᾽ ὑπεροχήν}, [Refs ([prev. author] “EE” 1238b18.)]
6 overstrained phrase, hyperbole, ὑπερβολὰς εἰπεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.88; οἱ πρὸς ὑπερβολὴν πεπονημένοι λόγοι [prev. work]11; ὑπερβολὰς εἰπεῖν)] make strong statements, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 3.35, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.64)]; as a figure of speech, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1413a29, 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 52, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.2.9; πρὸς -ὴν εἰρημένος [prev. author] 1.2.33.)]
7 τὸ καθ᾽ ὑπερβολήν the superlative degree, in Adjectives, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 134b24)]; τιθέναι ὑπερβολῇ[Refs ([prev. work] 139a9; καθ᾽ ὑ. εἰπεῖν [prev. author] “Cael.” 281a16.)]
8 overbid at auction, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PPetr.” 2p.44 (3rd c.BC).)]
II crossing over, passage of mountains, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.25, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.34.6, etc.)]
II.2 in singular or plural, place of passage, mountain-pass, with or without τοῦ ὄρους, τῶν ὀρέων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.5.18, 4.1.21, 4.4.18)]; ὑ. τοῦ Ταύρου Wilcken [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Chr.” 1 ii 14 (3rd c.BC))]; αἱ τῶν Ἄλπεων ὑ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.39.10; αἱ Ἄλπιαι ὑ. 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 7.1.5; ἡ κατὰ τὸν Αἷμον ὑ. 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.73.)]
III (from middle) delay, τοῦ κακοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.112, cf. Decrees cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.29, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 14.9.8; [τῆς κρίσεως] ὑ. λαβούσης “PEnteux.” 65.3 (3rd c.BC).)]
IV the conic section called hyperbola, because the square of the ordinate is equal to a rectangle with height equal to the abscissa applied to the parameter (as base) but exceeding (ὑπερβάλλον), i. e. overlapping, that base, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Biographus Perg. “Con.” 1.12, 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in primum Euclidis librum commentarius” p.419F.)]
(ὑπερβάλλω) a throwing beyond others, δίσκων ὑπερβολαῖς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.19)]: in intransitive sense, altitude of a star, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 342b32.)]
2 overshooting, superiority, χερῶν ὑπερβολαῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 434; στρατιᾶς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.31.)]
3 excess, τοῦ μεγέθεος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 1)]; opposed to ἔλλειψις or ἔνδεια, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356a, 357a, 357b; θερμασίης 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.65; ὑ. δισσὴ.., τῷ ποσῷ καὶ τῷ ποιῷ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 668b14)]; ὑπερβολὴν τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἔχειν with accusative et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.33, etc.: hence in various phrases, χρημάτων ὑπερβολῇ.. πρίασθαι)] at an extravagant price, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 232)]; ἐπέφερον τὴν ὑ. τοῦ καινοῦσθαι pushed on their extravagance in revolutionizing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82)]; οὐκ ἔχον ἐστὶν ὑπερβολήν it can go no further, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.119, compare 25.54; ἃ μηδὲ πιθανὰς τὰς ὑ. ἔχει 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἥρως” 62)]; so οὐδεμίαν or μηδεμίαν ὑ. λείπειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.5,110, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.25; οὐδεμίαν ὑ. καταλείπων φιλοτιμίας “SIG” 545.13 (Delph., 3rd c.BC))]; εἴ τις ὑ. τούτου if there is aught beyond (worse than) this, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.66, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.42)]; ταῦτ᾽ οὐχ ὑ.; is not this the extreme, the last degree? [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.38)]; ὑπερβολὴν ποιήσομαι I will put an extreme case, [Refs ([prev. author] 19.332)]; τοσαύτην ὑ. ποιεῖσθαι ὥστε.. to go so far that.., [Refs ([prev. author] 18.190: followed by a _genitive_, ὑ. ποιεῖσθαι ἐκείνων τῆς αὑτοῦ βδελυρίας)] to carry his own rascality beyond theirs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 22.52, compare 23.201, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.22, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.38)]; ὑ. ποιεῖν τῆς τιμῆς to raise the price, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1259a26; εἰς ὑ. εὐδαιμονίας ἥκειν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.14; τοσαύτας ὑ. δωρειῶν παρές χηται 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.141)]; ὑ. ἀνοίας ἔχειν Polystr.p.27 W.
4 with preposition in Adverbial phrases, ={ὑπερβαλλόντως}, εἰς ὑπερβολήν in excess, exceedingly; εἰς ὑ. ἄμεινον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 494; ἀγαθὸς εἰς ὑ. 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 80.11; ἐς ὑ. ἐκθερμαίνεσθαι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.65: with _genitive_, κτήσαιτ᾽ ἂν ὄλβον εἰς ὑ. πατρός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 282.6 (variant{εἰς ὑπεκτροφὴν πάτρας}))]; far beyond, τοῦ πρόσθεν εἰς ὑ. πανοῦργος, i. e. far more wicked, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Hipp.” 939, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 61.33; ἀναλίσκειν πάντα εἰς ὑπερβολάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 326d:— ἐξ ὑπερβολῆς 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.15.8:)] —καθ᾽ ὑπερβολὰν τοξεύσας with surpassing aim, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1196 (Lyric poetry); καθ᾽ ὑ. ἐπαινεῖν)]extravagantly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.11)]; οἱ καθ᾽ ὑ. ἐν ἐνδείᾳ ὄντες in extremity of need, [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1295b18; αἱ καθ᾽ ὑ. ἡδοναί [prev. author] “EN” 1151a12; τὸ καθ᾽ ὑ. τραχύ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Po.Herc.” 994.35; καθ᾽ ὑ. ἁμαρτωλός NT.Rom.7.13: with _genitive_, καθ᾽ ὑ. φιλοδοξίας “OGI” 472.9 (Didyma, 1st c.AD))]:—so in dative, εὐτελὴς ὑπερβολῇ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 615; παχεῖ᾽ ὑ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 41; ὑ. ἀγαθός 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 625a29, etc.)]
5 preeminence, perfection, without any notion of excess, δι᾽ ἀρετῆς ὑπερβολήν [Refs ([prev. author] “EN” 1145a24, compare “Rh.” 1367b1, “Pol.” 1284a4)]; ἡ ὑ. τῆς φιλίας the best and noblest kind of friendship, [Refs ([prev. author] “EN” 1166b1)]; but ἡ καθ᾽ ὑ. φιλία, ={ἡ καθ᾽ ὑπεροχήν}, [Refs ([prev. author] “EE” 1238b18.)]
6 overstrained phrase, hyperbole, ὑπερβολὰς εἰπεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.88; οἱ πρὸς ὑπερβολὴν πεπονημένοι λόγοι [prev. work]11; ὑπερβολὰς εἰπεῖν)] make strong statements, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 3.35, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.64)]; as a figure of speech, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1413a29, 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 52, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.2.9; πρὸς -ὴν εἰρημένος [prev. author] 1.2.33.)]
7 τὸ καθ᾽ ὑπερβολήν the superlative degree, in Adjectives, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 134b24)]; τιθέναι ὑπερβολῇ[Refs ([prev. work] 139a9; καθ᾽ ὑ. εἰπεῖν [prev. author] “Cael.” 281a16.)]
8 overbid at auction, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PPetr.” 2p.44 (3rd c.BC).)]
II crossing over, passage of mountains, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.25, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.34.6, etc.)]
II.2 in singular or plural, place of passage, mountain-pass, with or without τοῦ ὄρους, τῶν ὀρέων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.5.18, 4.1.21, 4.4.18)]; ὑ. τοῦ Ταύρου Wilcken [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Chr.” 1 ii 14 (3rd c.BC))]; αἱ τῶν Ἄλπεων ὑ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.39.10; αἱ Ἄλπιαι ὑ. 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 7.1.5; ἡ κατὰ τὸν Αἷμον ὑ. 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.73.)]
III (from middle) delay, τοῦ κακοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.112, cf. Decrees cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.29, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 14.9.8; [τῆς κρίσεως] ὑ. λαβούσης “PEnteux.” 65.3 (3rd c.BC).)]
IV the conic section called hyperbola, because the square of the ordinate is equal to a rectangle with height equal to the abscissa applied to the parameter (as base) but exceeding (ὑπερβάλλον), i. e. overlapping, that base, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Biographus Perg. “Con.” 1.12, 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in primum Euclidis librum commentarius” p.419F.)]