◄ 5236. huperbolé ►
Strong's Lexicon huperbolé: Excess, surpassing, extraordinary, beyond measure Original Word: ὑπερβολή Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: huperbolé Pronunciation: hoo-per-bol-AY Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-er-bol-ay') Definition: Excess, surpassing, extraordinary, beyond measure Meaning: excess, surpassing excellence, preeminence; adv: exceedingly. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 5236 hyperbolḗ – This very emphatic term means "superlatively, beyond, measure" (Souter). See 5235 (hyperbállō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin from huperballó Definition a throwing beyond, excess, superiority NASB Translation all comparison (1), beyond* (1), excessively* (1), far...all comparison (1), measure (1), more excellent (1), surpassing greatness (2), utterly (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5236: ὑπερβολή ὑπερβολή, ὑπερβολης, ἡ (ὑπερβάλλω, which see), from Herodotus (8, 112, 4) and Thucydides down; 1. properly, a throwing beyond. 2. metaphorically, superiority, excellence, preeminence (R. V. exceeding greatness): with a genitive of the thing, 2 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Corinthians 12:7; καθ' ὑπερβολήν, beyond measure, exceedingly, preeminently: Romans 7:13; 1 Corinthians 12:31 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 54, 2b.; Buttmann, § 125, 11 at the end); 2 Corinthians 1:8; Galatians 1:13 (4 Macc. 3:18; Sophocles O. R. 1196; Isocrates, p. 84 d. (i. e. πρός Φιλ. 5); Polybius 3, 92, 10; Diodorus 2, 16; 17, 47); καθ' ὑπέρ εἰς ὑπερβολήν, beyond all measure (R. V. more and more exceedingly), 2 Corinthians 4:17. STRONGS NT 5236a: ὑπερεγώ ὑπερεγώ (Lachmann), equivalent to ὑπέρ ἐγώ (see ὑπέρ, II. 2 c.): 2 Corinthians 11:23. Cf. Winer's Grammar, 46 (45). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance abundance, excess From huperballo; a throwing beyond others, i.e. (figuratively) supereminence; adverbially (with eis or kata) pre- eminently -- abundance, (far more) exceeding, excellency, more excellent, beyond (out of) measure. see GREEK huperballo see GREEK eis see GREEK kata Forms and Transliterations υπερβολη υπερβολή ὑπερβολὴ ὑπερβολῇ υπερβολην υπερβολήν ὑπερβολὴν υπερεδυνάμωσαν hyperbole hyperbolē hyperbolḕ hyperbolêi hyperbolē̂i hyperbolen hyperbolēn hyperbolḕn uperbole uperbolē uperbolen uperbolēn Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Romans 7:13 N-AFS GRK: γένηται καθ' ὑπερβολὴν ἁμαρτωλὸς ἡ NAS: sin would become utterly sinful. INT: might become beyond excessively sinful 1 Corinthians 12:31 N-AFS GRK: ἔτι καθ' ὑπερβολὴν ὁδὸν ὑμῖν NAS: you a still more excellent way. KJV: unto you a more excellent way. INT: yet by more surpassing a way to you 2 Corinthians 1:8 N-AFS GRK: ὅτι καθ' ὑπερβολὴν ὑπὲρ δύναμιν KJV: out of measure, above INT: that against excessively beyond [our] power 2 Corinthians 4:7 N-NFS GRK: ἵνα ἡ ὑπερβολὴ τῆς δυνάμεως NAS: so that the surpassing greatness of the power KJV: that the excellency of the power INT: that the surpassingness of the power 2 Corinthians 4:17 N-AFS GRK: ἡμῶν καθ' ὑπερβολὴν εἰς ὑπερβολὴν NAS: of glory far beyond INT: of us far surpassing to excessiveness 2 Corinthians 4:17 N-AFS GRK: ὑπερβολὴν εἰς ὑπερβολὴν αἰώνιον βάρος NAS: far beyond all comparison, INT: surpassing to excessiveness an eternal weight 2 Corinthians 12:7 N-DFS GRK: καὶ τῇ ὑπερβολῇ τῶν ἀποκαλύψεων NAS: Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, KJV: I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, INT: And by the surpassingness of the revelations Galatians 1:13 N-AFS GRK: ὅτι καθ' ὑπερβολὴν ἐδίωκον τὴν NAS: beyond measure and tried to destroy KJV: beyond measure I persecuted INT: that beyond exceeding measure I was persecuting the Strong's Greek 5236 8 Occurrences ὑπερβολὴ — 2 Occ. ὑπερβολὴν — 6 Occ.