Hypereteo means “serve” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5256 — necach (“pull down”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5256 ὑπηρετέω (hupereteo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. hupereteo (hoop-ay-ret-eh'-o) v. 1. to assist or help 2. (generally) to be a subordinate It has 8 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include unto. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
hupereteo (hoop-ay-ret-eh'-o) v. 1. to assist or help 2. (generally) to be a subordinate 3. (by implication) subserve, (by extension) to tend unto needs [from G5257] KJV: minister (unto), serve Root(s): G5257
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to serve
Usage: ὑπηρετέω, -ῶ (ὑπηρέτης) [in LXX: Wis.16:21, 24-25 19:6, Sir.39:4 * ;] prop., to serve as rower on a ship (Diod., al.). In cl. always metaphorically, to minister to, serve: with dative of person(s), Act.13:36 20:34 24:23.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render hupereteo, 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.
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Strong's G5256 (ὑπηρετέω) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For thy sustenance declared thy sweetness unto thy children, And serving to the appetite of the eater, Tempered itself to every man’s liking.
For the creature that serveth thee, who art the Maker, Increaseth his strength against the unrighteous for their punishment, And abateth his strength for the benefit of such as put their trust in thee.
Therefore even then was it altered into all fashions, And was obedient to thy grace, that nourisheth all things, According to the desire of them that had need:
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5256.
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
For thy sustenance declared thy sweetness unto thy children, And serving to the appetite of the eater, Tempered itself to every man’s liking.
For the creature that serveth thee, who art the Maker, Increaseth his strength against the unrighteous for their punishment, And abateth his strength for the benefit of such as put their trust in thee.
Therefore even then was it altered into all fashions, And was obedient to thy grace, that nourisheth all things, According to the desire of them that had need:
For the whole creature in his proper kind was fashioned again anew, Serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them, That thy children might be kept without hurt:
He shall serve among great men, And appear before princes: He will travel through strange countries; For he hath tried the good and the evil among men.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5256, grouped by book.
Hypereteo (Strong's G5256) is a Greek word most simply glossed "serve". hupereteo (hoop-ay-ret-eh'-o) v. 1. to assist or help 2. (generally) to be a subordinate
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G5256 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5256 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as unto. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5256, with linked reader references where each row is available.