Strong G5308ὑψηλός
high
- Transliteration
- hupsēlos
- Pronunciation
- hoop-say-los'
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
From G5311; lofty (in place or character): - high (-er -ly) (esteemed).
Detailed definition
ὑψηλός, -ή, -όν
[in LXX chiefly for בָּמָה, also for בָּמָה, רוּם, etc.;]
high, lofty: ὄρος, Mat.4:8 17:1, Mrk.9:2, Rev.21:10; τεῖχος, Rev.21:12; μετὰ βραχίονος., figuratively, Act.13:17 (cf. Exo.6:6, al); pl., ὑψηλά, of heaven (Psa.93:4, Isa.33:5, al.), Heb.1:3; compar., ὑψηλότερος τ. οὐρανῶν, Heb.7:26. Metaph: Luk.16:15; ὑψηλὰ ψρσνεῖν, Rom.11:20 12:16, 1Ti.6:17 (WH, txt., ὑψηλοφρονείν).†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for בָּמָה, also for בָּמָה, רוּם, etc.;]
high, lofty: ὄρος, Mat.4:8 17:1, Mrk.9:2, Rev.21:10; τεῖχος, Rev.21:12; μετὰ βραχίονος., figuratively, Act.13:17 (cf. Exo.6:6, al); pl., ὑψηλά, of heaven (Psa.93:4, Isa.33:5, al.), Heb.1:3; compar., ὑψηλότερος τ. οὐρανῶν, Heb.7:26. Metaph: Luk.16:15; ὑψηλὰ ψρσνεῖν, Rom.11:20 12:16, 1Ti.6:17 (WH, txt., ὑψηλοφρονείν).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5308 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- high9
- esteem1
- thing1
First verses
- Matthew 4:8Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
- Matthew 17:1And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
- Mark 9:2And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.
- Luke 4:5And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
- Luke 16:15And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
- Acts 13:17The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
- Romans 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
- Hebrews 1:3Who 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;
- Hebrews 7:26For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
- Revelation 21:10And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
- Revelation 21:12And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὑψηλός, ή, όν
(also -ός, όν Demetr.Troezen. 1 Diels): comparative and superlative -ότερος, -ότατος, and irregular -έστατος[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.13.9)]: (ὕψι, ὕψος): —high, lofty, θάλαμος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.426; πύργος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.384, etc.)]; of a highland country, χώρη ὀρεινὴ.. καὶ ὑψηλή [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.110; ὑψλὰ χωρία 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.97)]; and ὑψηλά alone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 732c)]; ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλοῦ εἶναι, καθῆσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.5.4, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 6; ἐν ὑψηλῷ τινι καταστάς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Eumenes” 17; ἀπὸ ὑψηλοῦ κρεμασθείς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 175d; ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλοτέρου καθορῶντες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.29)]; ἐποικοδομήσαντες ὑψηλότερον [τὸ τεῖχος] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.4)]. adverb, -λῶς καθήμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 64.)]
II metaphorically, high, lofty, stately, proud, ὄλβος, ἀρεταί, κλέος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.22, 5.1, “P.” 3.111; τέχνη θεσπεσία τις καὶ ὑ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 289e; ὑ. καὶ χαύνη ἐλπίς [prev. author] “Ep.” 341e)]; ὑψηλὰ κομπεῖν talk high and boastfully, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1230.)]
II.2 of persons, opposed to δυσδαίμων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 418; ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλῶν βραχὺν ᾤκισε [prev. author] “Heracl.” 613 (Lyric poetry); ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐμοῖς κακοῖς ὑ. εἶναι [prev. author] “Hipp.” 730; ἐπὶ τούτοις ὑ. ἐξαρεῖν αὑτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 494d, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.7, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.174; [δαίμονα] ὑ. αἴρειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 555; τὸ νέον ἅπαν ὑ. καὶ θρασύ 4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus “fragment” 57; αὑτὸν παρέχειν -ότερον λημμάτων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 25; ὑ. τῷ ἤθει 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Dio” 4.)]
II.3 upraised, i.e. mighty, ἐν βραχίονι -λῷ [LXX (LXX.Exo.6.1, +others)]
II.4 of poets, sublime, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 40.2)]; τὰ -ότερα the loftier, sublimer thoughts or language, [Refs ([prev. author] 43.3)]; ὑ. λέξις, λόγος, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Lysia” 13, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 5)]. adverb -λῶς[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.12.)]
(also -ός, όν Demetr.Troezen. 1 Diels): comparative and superlative -ότερος, -ότατος, and irregular -έστατος[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.13.9)]: (ὕψι, ὕψος): —high, lofty, θάλαμος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.426; πύργος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.384, etc.)]; of a highland country, χώρη ὀρεινὴ.. καὶ ὑψηλή [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.110; ὑψλὰ χωρία 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.97)]; and ὑψηλά alone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 732c)]; ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλοῦ εἶναι, καθῆσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.5.4, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 6; ἐν ὑψηλῷ τινι καταστάς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Eumenes” 17; ἀπὸ ὑψηλοῦ κρεμασθείς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 175d; ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλοτέρου καθορῶντες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.29)]; ἐποικοδομήσαντες ὑψηλότερον [τὸ τεῖχος] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.4)]. adverb, -λῶς καθήμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 64.)]
II metaphorically, high, lofty, stately, proud, ὄλβος, ἀρεταί, κλέος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.22, 5.1, “P.” 3.111; τέχνη θεσπεσία τις καὶ ὑ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 289e; ὑ. καὶ χαύνη ἐλπίς [prev. author] “Ep.” 341e)]; ὑψηλὰ κομπεῖν talk high and boastfully, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1230.)]
II.2 of persons, opposed to δυσδαίμων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 418; ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλῶν βραχὺν ᾤκισε [prev. author] “Heracl.” 613 (Lyric poetry); ἐπὶ τοῖς ἐμοῖς κακοῖς ὑ. εἶναι [prev. author] “Hipp.” 730; ἐπὶ τούτοις ὑ. ἐξαρεῖν αὑτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 494d, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.7, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.174; [δαίμονα] ὑ. αἴρειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 555; τὸ νέον ἅπαν ὑ. καὶ θρασύ 4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus “fragment” 57; αὑτὸν παρέχειν -ότερον λημμάτων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 25; ὑ. τῷ ἤθει 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Dio” 4.)]
II.3 upraised, i.e. mighty, ἐν βραχίονι -λῷ [LXX (LXX.Exo.6.1, +others)]
II.4 of poets, sublime, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 40.2)]; τὰ -ότερα the loftier, sublimer thoughts or language, [Refs ([prev. author] 43.3)]; ὑ. λέξις, λόγος, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Lysia” 13, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 5)]. adverb -λῶς[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.12.)]