Strong G5287ὑπόστασις

confidence/essence

Transliteration
hupostasis
Pronunciation
hoop-os'-tas-is
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From a compound of G5259 and G2476; a setting under (support) that is (figuratively) concretely essence or abstractly assurance (objectively or subjectively): - confidence confident person substance.

Detailed definition

ὑπό-στασις, -εως, ἡ
(ὑφίστημι, to set under, stand under, support) [in LXX for מַצָּב (1Ki.13:23 14:4 B), תִּקְוָה (Rut.1:12, Eze.19:5), etc., also in Wis.16:21;]
1. a support, base or foundation (in various senses).

2. substance (Arist., al.; opposite to φαντασία, ἔμφασις): Heb.1:3

3. steadiness, firmness (Polyb., al.), hence, assurance, confidence: 2Co.9:4 11:17, Heb.3:14 11:1 (here perhaps title-deed, as that which gives reality or guarantee; see MM, xxv).†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G5287 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • confidence2
  • confident1
  • of1
  • person1
  • substance1

First verses

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:4
    Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
  2. 2 Corinthians 11:17
    That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
  3. Hebrews 1:3
    Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
  4. Hebrews 3:14
    For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
  5. Hebrews 11:1
    Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὑπόστᾰσις, εως, ἡ,
(ὑφίστημι, ὑφίσταμαι): as an act, standing under, supporting, ἡ κεφαλὴ τοῦ μηροῦ καὶ ὁ αὐχὴν τοῦ ἄρθρου.. ὑπὸ συχνῷ μέρει τοῦ ἰσχίου τὴν ὑ. πεποίηται [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 55; [τοὺς προσθίους πόδας] ἔχουσιν.. οὐ μόνον ἕνεχ᾽ ὑποστάσεως τοῦ βάρους 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 659a24; ἐνεπάγην εἰς ἰλὺν βυθοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὑ. LXX.Psa.68(69).3.)]
2 resistance, τοῦ κύματος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 368b12)] (unless = settling down); so perhaps in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “κατ᾽ ἰητρεῖον” 3, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Fragmenta” 59.)]
3 lying in ambush, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 719.)]
B as a thing,
B.I in liquids, that which settles at the bottom, sediment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Steril.” 242, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 551b29, “Mete.” 382b14, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.8.3)]; especially of sediment in the urine, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 146, 389, “Aph.” 4.69, +others, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.252, +others)]; but the urine itself is called ἡ ὑ. ἡ εἰς τὴν κύστιν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 358a8; ἡ τῆς ὑγρᾶς τροφῆς ὑ. [prev. author] “PA” 647b28; ἐκ τῶν νεφρῶν ἡ γιγνομένη ὑ. [prev. work] 671b20; also of the dry excrement, ἡ τῆς ξηρᾶς τροφῆς ὑ. [prev. work] 647b28, compare 677a15, “Mete.” 358b9.)]
B.I.b an accumulation of pus, abscess, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 40.)]
B.I.2 νέφους ὑποστάσεις cloud-cumuli, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.38.)]
B.I.3 a kind of jelly or thick soup, in plural, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 462.10 (compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.60), 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 4.8.1.)]
B.I.4 metaphorically of time, duration, ἡ στιγμιαία τῶν καιρῶν ὑ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.187)]; μνήσθητι τίς μου ἡ ὑ. remember how short my time is, [LXX (LXX.Psa.88(89).48)]; ἡ ὑ. μου ὡσεὶ οὐθὲν ἐνώπιόν σου mine age is as nothing before thee, [Refs ([prev. work] 38(39).6)]; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον αὐτοῦ (i.e. Ἕκτορος) ἡ ὑ. τῶν χρόνων ὑπῆρχεν as long as his store of years lasted, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 347.14.)]
B.I.5 coming into existence, origin, ἡ ὑ. μου ἐν τοῖς κατωτάτω τῆς γῆς [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.Psa.138(139).15; περὶ τοῦ γένους.. τῶν Ἰουδαίων.. ὅτι.. τὴν πρώτην ὑ. ἔσχεν ἰδίαν 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “contra Apionem” 1.1)]; ἀκμὴ οὐδὲ ἔχει γενέσεως ὑ. καθ᾽ ἑαυτήν has no power of originating by itself, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 1.10.)]
B.II foundation or substructure of a temple, etc., [LXX+1st c.BC+ (LXX.Nah.2.7, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.66, 13.82)]; ὑποστάσεις ἐπάλξεων lower part of a crenellated wall, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 84.9)]; ὑ. ξύλου is falsa lectio for{ὑπότασις ξ}. in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Mochl.” 25.)]
B.II.2 metaphorically of a narrative, speech, or poem, ground-work, subject-matter, argument, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.2.1, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.3, etc.)]
B.II.3 plan, purpose, [Refs ([prev. author] 16.32; κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν ὑ. [prev. author] 1.28, 15.70; πρὸς τὴν ἰδίαν ὑ. [prev. author] 1.3)]; οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι.. ἰδίᾳ τινὶ ὑ. κεχρημένοι εἰσί (i.e. in their calendar) [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 8.16, compare 25; κατὰ τὴν Καίσαρος ὑ. “BMus.Inscription” 892.21 (Halic., 1st c.BC-1st c.AD).)]
B.II.4 confidence, courage, resolution, steadiness, of soldiers, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.50.10, 6.55.2)]; hope, ἔστι μοι ὑ. τοῦ γενηθῆναί με ἀνδρί [LXX (LXX.Ruth.1.12)]; ἀπώλετο ἡ ὑ. αὐτῆς[LXX+NT (LXX.Eze.19.5, cf. NT.Heb.3.14; ἡ ὑ. τῆς καυχήσεως NT.2Cor.11.17, compare 9.4)]; ἔστιν δὲ πίστις ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις confidence in things hoped for, [NT (NT.Heb.11.1)] (unless substance be the right sense here).
B.II.5 undertaking, promise, οἱ ὑπογεγραμμένοι γεωργοὶ ἐπέδωκαν ἡμῖν ὑπόστασιν [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PEleph.” 15.3 (3rd c.BC),compare “PTheb.Bank” 1.8 (2nd c.BC), “PTeb.” 61 (b). 194 (2nd c.BC).)]
B.II.6 Astrology texts, τὰ τούτου (i.e. κλήρου τύχης) τετράγωνα ὑπόστασις (perhaps -στάσεις) [λέγεται] [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Serapio Astrologus in “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 8(4).227.)]
B.III substantial nature, substance, δύσσχιστα, τῷ κολλώδη τὴν ὑ. ἔχειν woods hard to cleave, because of their resinous substance, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.16.4; ἡ τοῦ γεώδους ὑ. [prev. work] 6.7.4.)]
B.III.2 substance, actual existence, reality (οἱ νεώτεροι τῶν φιλοσόφων ἀντὶ τῆς οὐσίας τῇ λέξει τῆς ὑ. ἐχρήσαντο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Socratis et Socraticorum Epistulae “HE” 3.7), opposed to semblance, φαντασίαν μὲν ἔχειν πλούτου, ὑ. δὲ μή 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 3.14)]; τῶν ἐν ἀέρι φαντασμάτων τὰ μέν ἐστι κατ᾽ ἔμφασιν, τὰ δὲ καθ᾽ ὑπόστασιν (substantial, actual), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 395a30, compare “Placita Philosophorum” 3.6, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.135, 9.91)]; so ὑποστάσεις are the substances of which the reflections (αἱ κατοπτρικαὶ ἐμφάσεις) appear in the mirror, [Refs (“Placita Philosophorum” 4.14.2)]; ὑ. ἔχειν have substantial existence, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1055.14, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.94, 176, 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 9.42)]; ἰδίᾳ χρησάμενον ὑποστάσει (ὑποτάσει codex), πρὸς ἰδίαν ὑ. φυτευθέντα, a separate existence, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.96, compare 33; ὑπόστασιν μὴ ἔχειν [prev. author] 2.57; ὑποστάσεις τε καὶ μεταβολαί 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 9.1, compare 10.5)]; [ἡ παρασιτικὴ] διαφέρει καὶ τῆς ῥητορικῆς καὶ τῆς φιλοσοφίας.. κατὰ τὴν ὑ. (in respect of reality) · ἡ μὲν γὰρ ὑφέστηκεν, αἱ δὲ οὔ [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Par.” 27; κατ᾽ ἰδίαν ὑ. καὶ οὐσίαν 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 9.338.)]
B.III.3 real nature, essence, χαρακτὴρ τῆς ὑ. [NT (NT.Heb.1.3.)]
B.IV as a Rhet. figure, the full expression or expansion of an idea, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 1.11, 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “τέχναι ῥητορικαί” 1p.479S., 5th c.AD: Syrianus Philosophus et Rhetor “in Hermogenem commentaria” 1.60 R.)]
B.V ={ὑπόστημα} [Refs (111,)]camp, [LXX (LXX.1Ki.13.23, 14.4.)]
B.VI wealth, substance, property,[LXX+3rd c.AD+ (LXX.Deu.11.6, LXX.Jer.10.17, “POxy.” 1274.15 (3rd c.AD), “BGU” 1020.16 (6th c.AD), etc.)]
B.VI.2 plural, title deeds, documents recording ownership of property, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (POxy. 237 viii 26 (2nd c.AD).)]