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Strong's G5253 ὑπερῷον (hyperoion)

huperoon - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5253 — nacag (“retreat”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5253
Language Greek
Linked Usages 27
Books 12

Strong's G5253 Quick Answer

Strong's G5253 ὑπερῷον (huperoon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. huperoon (hoop-er-o`-on) n. 1. a higher part of the house, i.e. apartment in the third story [neuter of a derivative of G5228] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include upper. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
huperoon (hoop-er-o`-on) n. 1. a higher part of the house, i.e. apartment in the third story [neuter of a derivative of G5228]
Usage
27 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
upper

Meaning and Definition

huperoon (hoop-er-o`-on) n. 1. a higher part of the house, i.e. apartment in the third story [neuter of a derivative of G5228] KJV: upper chamber (room) Root(s): G5228

Original Word
ὑπερῷον
Transliteration
huperoon
Derivation
Root: ὑπέρ R1: 5228
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5253. 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)

upper room

Usage: ὑπερῷον, -ου, τό (neut. of ὑπερῷος, above, ὑπέρ) [in LXX for עֲלִיָּה and cogn. forms ;] __1. in cl., the upper story or upper rooms where the women resided (Hom., a1.). __2. In LXX and NT, an upper chamber, roof-chamber, built on the flat roof of the house (see DB, iii, 674a): Act.1:13 9:37, 39 20:8 (cf. 4Ki.23:22).† (AS)

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How Strong's G5253 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render huperoon, 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.

upper Acts 1:13

How Strong's G5253 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 21 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.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5253 (ὑπερῷον) appears 23 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5253 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 G5253 in the New Testament

4 indexed usages in New Testament.

Acts 1:13 KJV

And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

Acts 9:37 KJV

And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.

Acts 9:39 KJV

Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

Strong's G5253 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

21 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Judges 3:20 Septuagint / Brenton

And Ehud went in to him; and he sat in his own upper summer chamber quite alone; and Ehud said, I have a message from God to thee, O king: and Eglon rose up from his throne near him.

Judges 3:23 Septuagint / Brenton

And Ehud went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed guards, and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked them.

Judges 3:24 Septuagint / Brenton

And he went out: and Eglon’s servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer chamber?

Strong's G5253 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 3:10 Septuagint / Brenton

When she heard these things she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.

Tobit 3:17 Septuagint / Brenton

And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit: and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.

Usage Excerpts

First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5253.

Judges 3:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Ehud went in to him; and he sat in his own upper summer chamber quite alone; and Ehud said, I have a message from God to thee, O king: and Eglon rose up from his throne near him.
Judges 3:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Ehud went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed guards, and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked them.
Judges 3:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he went out: and Eglon’s servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer chamber?
Judges 3:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they waited till they were ashamed, and, behold, there was no one that opened the doors of the upper chamber; and they took the key, and opened them; and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead upon the earth.
2 Kingdoms 19:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king was troubled, and went to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and thus he said as he went, My son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom; would God I had died for thee, even I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son!
3 Kingdoms 17:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elijah said to the woman, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and took him up to the chamber in which he himself lodged, and laid him on the bed.
3 Kingdoms 17:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and he brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and gave him to his mother; and Elijah said, See, thy son lives.
4 Kingdoms 1:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Ahaziah fell through the lattice that was in his upper chamber in Samaria, and was sick; and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go and inquire of Baal fly, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this my sickness. And they went to inquire of him.
4 Kingdoms 4:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let us now make for him an upper chamber, a small place; and let us put there for him a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall come to pass that when he comes in to us, he shall turn in thither.
4 Kingdoms 4:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And a day came, and he went in thither, and turned aside into the upper chamber, and lay there.
4 Kingdoms 23:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from thence, and cast their dust into the brook of Kidron.
1 Chronicles 28:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David gave Solomon his son the plan of the temple, and its buildings, and its treasuries, and its upper chambers, and the inner storerooms, and the place of the atonement,
2 Chronicles 3:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the weight of the nails, even the weight of each was fifty shekels of gold: and he gilded the upper chamber with gold.
Psalms 103:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who covers his chambers with waters; Who makes the clouds his chariot; Who walks on the wings of the wind.
Psalms 103:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He waters the mountains from his chambers: The earth shall be satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
Jeremiah 20:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he smote him, and cast him into the dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 22:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that builds his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment, who works by means of his neighbor for nothing, and will by no means give him his reward.
Jeremiah 22:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast built for thyself a well-proportioned house, airy chambers, fitted with windows, and wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Ezekiel 41:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the breadth of the upper side was made according to the projection out of the wall, against the upper one round about the house, that it might be enlarged above, and that men might go up to the upper chambers from those below, and from the groundsills to the third story.
Ezekiel 42:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the upper walks were in like manner: for the peristyle projected from it, even from the range of columns below, and there was a space between; so were there a peristyle and a space between, and so were there two porticoes.
Daniel 6:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when Daniel knew that the decree was ordered, he went into his house; and his windows were opened in his chambers toward Jerusalem, and three times in the day he knelt upon his knees, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he used to do before.
Acts 1:13 New Testament, KJV
And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
Acts 9:37 New Testament, KJV
And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
Acts 9:39 New Testament, KJV
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
Acts 20:8 New Testament, KJV
And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
Tobit 3:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
When she heard these things she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.
Tobit 3:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit: and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5253, grouped by book.

Judges 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 4 usages, New Testament
Tobit 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5253 FAQ

What does hyperoion (ὑπερῷον) mean?

Strong's G5253 is a Greek entry for G5253 ὑπερῷον (huperoon). huperoon (hoop-er-o`-on) n. 1. a higher part of the house, i.e. apartment in the third story [neuter of a derivative of G5228]

How many times is hyperoion (ὑπερῷον) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's G5253 across 12 books.

Where can I study hyperoion (ὑπερῷον) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5253 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate hyperoion (ὑπερῷον)?

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

Does Strong's G5253 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 21 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5253, with linked reader references where each row is available.