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Strong's G5243 ὑπερηφανία (hyperephania)

Hyperephania means “pride” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5243 — namal (“circumcise”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5243
Language Greek
Linked Usages 47
Books 20

Strong's G5243 Quick Answer

Strong's G5243 ὑπερηφανία (huperephania) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. huperephania (hoop-er-ay-fan-ee'-ah) n. 1. haughtiness [from G5244] It has 47 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include pride. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
huperephania (hoop-er-ay-fan-ee'-ah) n. 1. haughtiness [from G5244]
Usage
47 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
pride

Meaning and Definition

huperephania (hoop-er-ay-fan-ee'-ah) n. 1. haughtiness [from G5244] KJV: pride Root(s): G5244

Original Word
ὑπερηφανία
Transliteration
huperephania
Derivation
Root: ὑπερήφανος R1: 5244
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5243. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

pride

Usage: ὑπερηφανία, -ας, ἡ (ὑπερήφανος, which see), [in LXX chiefly for גָּאוֹן and cogn. forms ;] haughtiness, arrogance, disdain: Mrk.7:22 (Plat., Xen.).† (AS)

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How Strong's G5243 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render huperephania, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

pride Mark 7:22

How Strong's G5243 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha with 23 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5243 (ὑπερηφανία) appears 46 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5243 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5243 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Mark 7:22 KJV

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

Strong's G5243 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

22 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 18:21 Septuagint / Brenton

And do thou look out for thyself out of all the people able men, fearing God, righteous men, hating pride, and thou shalt set over the people captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.

Leviticus 26:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass.

Numbers 15:30 Septuagint / Brenton

And whatever soul either of the natives or of the strangers shall do anything with a presumptuous hand, he will provoke God; that soul shall be cut off from his people,

Strong's G5243 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

23 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 6:19 Septuagint / Brenton

O Lord God of heaven, behold their pride, and pity the low estate of our nation, and look upon the face of those that are sanctified unto thee this day.

Judith 9:9 Septuagint / Brenton

Behold their pride, and send thy wrath upon their heads: give into my hand, which am a widow, the power that I have conceived.

1 Maccabees 1:21 Septuagint / Brenton

and entered proudly into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof,

Strong's G5243 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 5:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom, And they shall all live and never again sin, Either through ungodliness or through pride: But they who are wise shall be humble.

Usage Excerpts

First 47 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5243.

Exodus 18:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And do thou look out for thyself out of all the people able men, fearing God, righteous men, hating pride, and thou shalt set over the people captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.
Leviticus 26:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass.
Numbers 15:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whatever soul either of the natives or of the strangers shall do anything with a presumptuous hand, he will provoke God; that soul shall be cut off from his people,
Deuteronomy 17:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the man whosoever shall act in haughtiness, so as not to hearken to the priest who stands to minister in the name of the Lord thy God, or the judge who shall preside in those days, that man shall die, and thou shalt remove the evil one out of Israel.
Psalms 16:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have enclosed themselves with their own fat: Their mouth has spoken pride.
Psalms 30:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let the deceitful lips become dumb, Which speak iniquity against the righteous With pride and scorn.
Psalms 30:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Love the Lord, all ye his saints: For the Lord seeks for truth, And renders a reward to them that deal very proudly.
Psalms 35:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let not the foot of pride come against me, And let not the hand of sinners move me.
Psalms 58:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips, Let them be even taken in their pride.
Psalms 72:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore pride has possessed them; They have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.
Psalms 73:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lift up thy hands against their pride continually; Because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in thy holy places.
Psalms 73:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Forget not the voice of thy suppliants: Let the pride of them that hate thee continually ascend before thee.
Psalms 100:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The proud doer dwelt not in the midst of my house; The unjust speaker prospered not in my sight.
Proverbs 8:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The fear of the Lord hates unrighteousness, And insolence, and pride, and the ways of wicked men; And I hate the perverse ways of bad men.
Isaiah 16:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride: thy prophecy shall not be thus, no not thus.
Jeremiah 31:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.
Ezekiel 7:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As for their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations: therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.
Ezekiel 16:49 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover this was the sin of thy sister Sodom, pride: she and her daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread and in abundance: this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:56 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And surely thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the days of thy pride:
Daniel 4:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now therefore I Nebuchadnezzar praise and greatly exalt and glorify the King of heaven; for all his works are true, and his paths are judgment: and all that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Amos 8:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.
Obadiah 1:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I have made thee small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonored. The pride of thy heart has elated thee, dwelling as thou dost in the holes of the rocks, as one that exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?
Mark 7:22 New Testament, KJV
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Judith 6:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord God of heaven, behold their pride, and pity the low estate of our nation, and look upon the face of those that are sanctified unto thee this day.
Judith 9:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold their pride, and send thy wrath upon their heads: give into my hand, which am a widow, the power that I have conceived.
1 Maccabees 1:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and entered proudly into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof,
1 Maccabees 1:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when he had taken all away, he went into his own land, having made a great massacre, and spoken very proudly.
1 Maccabees 2:47 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
They pursued also after the proud men, and the work prospered in their hand.
1 Maccabees 2:49 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when the time drew near that Mattathias should die, he said unto his sons, Now have pride and rebuke gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation:
2 Maccabees 1:28 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Punish them that oppress us, and with pride do us wrong.
2 Maccabees 5:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed in all haste unto Antioch, weening in his pride to make the land navigable, and the sea passable by foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.
2 Maccabees 7:36 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For our brethren, who now have suffered a short pain, are dead under God’s covenant of everlasting life: but thou, through the judgment of God, shalt receive just punishment for thy pride.
2 Maccabees 9:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging, but still was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding to hasten the journey: but it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot, carried violently; so that having a sore fall, all the members of his body were much pained.
2 Maccabees 9:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Here therefore, being plagued, he began to leave off his great pride, and to come to the knowledge of himself by the scourge of God, his pain increasing every moment.
3 Maccabees 2:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
It was thou who didst make the Sodomites, those workers of exceeding iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to after generations, when thou didst consume them with fire and brimstone.
3 Maccabees 2:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Punish us not by means of the uncleanness of their men, nor chastise us by means of their profanity; lest the lawless ones should boast in their rage, and exult in exuberant pride of speech, and say,
Wisdom of Solomon 5:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
What hath pride profited us? Or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us?
Wisdom of Sirach 10:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Pride is hateful before God and man: And by both doth one commit iniquity.
Wisdom of Sirach 10:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The beginning of pride is when one departeth from God, And his heart is turned away from his Maker.
Wisdom of Sirach 10:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For pride is the beginning of sin, And he that hath it shall pour out abomination: And therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, And overthrew them utterly.
Wisdom of Sirach 10:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Pride was not made for men, Nor furious anger for them that are born of a woman.
Wisdom of Sirach 15:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For she is far from pride, And men that are liars cannot remember her.
Wisdom of Sirach 16:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Neither spared he the place where Lot sojourned, But abhorred them for their pride.
Wisdom of Sirach 22:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend, fear not; For there may be a reconciliation: Except for upbraiding, or pride, or disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: For for these things every friend will depart.
Wisdom of Sirach 48:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
In his time Sennacherib came up, And sent Rabshakeh, And lifted up his hand against Zion, And boasted proudly.
Wisdom of Sirach 51:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord, That he would not leave me in the days of my trouble, And in the time of the proud, when there was no help.
1 Enoch 5:8 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom, And they shall all live and never again sin, Either through ungodliness or through pride: But they who are wise shall be humble.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5243, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Obadiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 9 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G5243 FAQ

What does hyperephania (ὑπερηφανία) mean?

Hyperephania (Strong's G5243) is a Greek word most simply glossed "pride". huperephania (hoop-er-ay-fan-ee'-ah) n. 1. haughtiness [from G5244]

How many times is hyperephania (ὑπερηφανία) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 47 linked usages for Strong's G5243 across 20 books.

Where can I study hyperephania (ὑπερηφανία) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5243 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate hyperephania (ὑπερηφανία)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pride. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5243 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 22 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 23 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G5243, with linked reader references where each row is available.