Hyperoche means “authority” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5247 — nimrah in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5247 ὑπεροχή (huperoche) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. huperoche (hoop-er-okh-ay') n. 1. prominence 2. (figuratively) superiority (in rank or character) It has 7 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include excellency and authority. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
huperoche (hoop-er-okh-ay') n. 1. prominence 2. (figuratively) superiority (in rank or character) [from G5242] KJV: authority, excellency Root(s): G5242
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5247. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
authority
Usage: ὑπεροχή, -ῆς, ἡ (ὑπερέχω) [in LXX: Jer.52:22 (קוֹמָה), 2Ma.3:11, al. ;] a projection, eminence, as the peak of a mountain. Metaphorical (Arist.), excellence, pre-eminence: λόγου ἢ σοφίας, 1Co.2:1; οἱ ἐν ὑ (for a parallel to this phrase, see Deiss., BS, 255, and cf. 2Mac, l.with), 1Ti.2:2.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render huperoche, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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.
Strong's G5247 (ὑπεροχή) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And there was a brazen chapiter upon them, and the length was five cubits, even the height of one chapiter; and there were on the chapiter round about network and pomegranates, all of brass: and correspondingly the second pillar had eight pomegranates to a cubit for the twelve cubits.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and that some of it belonged to Hyrcanus son of Tobias, a man of great dignity, and not as that wicked Simon had misinformed: the sum whereof in all was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold:
But he began to consider discreetly, and as became his age, and the excellency of his ancient years, and the honor of his gray head, whereunto he was come, and his most honest education from a child, or rather the holy law made and given by God: therefore he answered accordingly, and willed them straightaway to send him to the grave.
And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5247.
And there was a brazen chapiter upon them, and the length was five cubits, even the height of one chapiter; and there were on the chapiter round about network and pomegranates, all of brass: and correspondingly the second pillar had eight pomegranates to a cubit for the twelve cubits.
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
and that some of it belonged to Hyrcanus son of Tobias, a man of great dignity, and not as that wicked Simon had misinformed: the sum whereof in all was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold:
But he began to consider discreetly, and as became his age, and the excellency of his ancient years, and the honor of his gray head, whereunto he was come, and his most honest education from a child, or rather the holy law made and given by God: therefore he answered accordingly, and willed them straightaway to send him to the grave.
And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.
This done, in like manner there appeared a man with gray hairs, and exceeding glorious, who was of a wonderful and excellent majesty.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5247, grouped by book.
Hyperoche (Strong's G5247) is a Greek word most simply glossed "authority". huperoche (hoop-er-okh-ay') n. 1. prominence 2. (figuratively) superiority (in rank or character)
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G5247 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5247 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as excellency and authority. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5247, with linked reader references where each row is available.