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Strong's G5293 ὑποτάσσω (hypotasso)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5293 — naaray (“Naarai”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5293
Language Greek
Linked Usages 57
Books 19

Strong's G5293 Quick Answer

Strong's G5293 ὑποτάσσω (hupotasso) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. hupotasso (hoop-ot-as'-so) v. 1. to subordinate 2. (reflexively) to obey It has 57 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include unto, under, obedient, obey, and subdue. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
hupotasso (hoop-ot-as'-so) v. 1. to subordinate 2. (reflexively) to obey
Usage
57 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
unto, under, obedient, obey, and subdue

Meaning and Definition

hupotasso (hoop-ot-as'-so) v. 1. to subordinate 2. (reflexively) to obey [from G5259 and G5021] KJV: be under obedience (obedient), put under, subdue unto, (be, make) subject (to, unto), be (put) in subjection (to, under), submit self unto Root(s): G5259, G5021

Original Word
ὑποτάσσω
Transliteration
hupotasso
Derivation
Root: τάσσω R1: 5259 R2: 5021
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5293. 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)

to subject

Usage: ὑπο-τάσσω [in LXX for דָבַר hi., דָּמַם, שׂוּם, שִׁית, etc. ;] __1. as a military term, to place or rank under (Polyb.). __2. to subject, put in subjection: 1Co.15:27, Php.3:21, Heb.2:5, 8; pass., Rom.8:20, 1Co.15:27-28, 1Pe.3:22, Eph.1:22. Mid., to subject oneself, obey: absol., Rom.13:5, 1Co.14:34; with dative of person(s), Luk.2:51 10:17, 20, Rom.8:7 10:3 13:1, 1Co.14:32 15:28 (ὑποταγήσεται; cf.

M, Pr., 163), 1Co.16:16, Eph.5:21-22 (T, WH, txt., R, om.), Eph.5:24, Col.3:18, Tit.2:5, 9 3:1, Heb.12:9, 1Pe.2:18 3:1 3:5 5:5; imperat., Jas.4:7, 1Pe.2:13 5:5.† (AS)

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How Strong's G5293 Is Translated

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

unto Luke 2:51 13× under 1 Corinthians 14:34 obedient Titus 2:5 obey Titus 3:1 put Hebrews 2:5 subdue Philippians 3:21

How Strong's G5293 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old 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 New Testament with 32 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 G5293 (ὑποτάσσω) appears 25 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5293 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 G5293 in the New Testament

32 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 2:51 KJV

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Luke 10:17 KJV

And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

Luke 10:20 KJV

Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Strong's G5293 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

16 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

3 Kingdoms 10:15 Septuagint / Brenton

Besides the tributes of them that were subjects, both merchants and all the kings of the country beyond the river, and of the princes of the land.

1 Chronicles 22:18 Septuagint / Brenton

Is not the Lord with you? and he has given you rest round about, for he has given into your hands the inhabitants of the land; and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people.

1 Chronicles 29:24 Septuagint / Brenton

The princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons of King David his father, were subject to him.

Strong's G5293 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

9 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

2 Maccabees 4:12 Septuagint / Brenton

for he built gladly a place of exercise under the tower itself, and brought the chief young men under his subjection, and made them wear a hat.

2 Maccabees 8:9 Septuagint / Brenton

Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.

2 Maccabees 8:22 Septuagint / Brenton

and joined with himself his own brethren, leaders of each band, to wit, Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving each one fifteen hundred men.

Usage Excerpts

First 57 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5293.

3 Kingdoms 10:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Besides the tributes of them that were subjects, both merchants and all the kings of the country beyond the river, and of the princes of the land.
1 Chronicles 22:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is not the Lord with you? and he has given you rest round about, for he has given into your hands the inhabitants of the land; and the land is subdued before the Lord, and before his people.
1 Chronicles 29:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons of King David his father, were subject to him.
2 Chronicles 9:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
besides what the men who were regularly appointed and the merchants brought, and all the kings of Arabia and princes of the land: all brought gold and silver to King Solomon.
Psalms 8:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou hast set him over the works of thy hands: Thou hast put all things under his feet:
Psalms 17:48 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It is God that avenges me, And has subdued the nations under me;
Psalms 36:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Submit thyself to the Lord, and supplicate him: Fret not thyself because of him that prospers in his way, At the man that does unlawful deeds.
Psalms 46:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He has subdued the peoples under us, And the nations under our feet.
Psalms 59:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Judah is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; Over Edom will I stretch out my shoe; The Philistines have been subjected to me.
Psalms 61:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Shall not my soul be subjected to God? For of him is my salvation.
Psalms 61:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless do thou, my soul, be subjected to God; For of him is my patient hope.
Psalms 107:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Moab is the caldron of my hope; Over Edom will I cast my sandal; The Philistines are made subject to me.
Psalms 143:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My mercy, and my refuge; My helper, and my deliverer; My protector, in whom I have trusted; Who subdues my people under me.
Daniel 6:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judea, has not submitted to thy decree; and three times in the day he makes his requests of his God.
Daniel 11:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall do thus in the strong places of refuge with a strange god, and shall increase his glory: and he shall subject many to them, and shall distribute the land in gifts.
Haggai 2:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Set your hearts now to think from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid;
Luke 2:51 New Testament, KJV
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Luke 10:17 New Testament, KJV
And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
Luke 10:20 New Testament, KJV
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Romans 8:7 New Testament, KJV
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Romans 8:20 New Testament, KJV
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Romans 10:3 New Testament, KJV
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Romans 13:1 New Testament, KJV
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Romans 13:5 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
1 Corinthians 14:32 New Testament, KJV
And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
1 Corinthians 14:34 New Testament, KJV
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
1 Corinthians 15:27 New Testament, KJV
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
1 Corinthians 15:28 New Testament, KJV
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
1 Corinthians 16:16 New Testament, KJV
That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
Ephesians 1:22 New Testament, KJV
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Ephesians 5:21 New Testament, KJV
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Ephesians 5:22 New Testament, KJV
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
Ephesians 5:24 New Testament, KJV
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Philippians 3:21 New Testament, KJV
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Colossians 3:18 New Testament, KJV
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Titus 2:5 New Testament, KJV
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:9 New Testament, KJV
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
Titus 3:1 New Testament, KJV
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Hebrews 2:5 New Testament, KJV
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
Hebrews 2:8 New Testament, KJV
Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
Hebrews 12:9 New Testament, KJV
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
James 4:7 New Testament, KJV
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
1 Peter 2:13 New Testament, KJV
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
1 Peter 2:18 New Testament, KJV
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
1 Peter 3:1 New Testament, KJV
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
1 Peter 3:5 New Testament, KJV
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
1 Peter 3:22 New Testament, KJV
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
1 Peter 5:5 New Testament, KJV
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
2 Maccabees 4:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
for he built gladly a place of exercise under the tower itself, and brought the chief young men under his subjection, and made them wear a hat.
2 Maccabees 8:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.
2 Maccabees 8:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and joined with himself his own brethren, leaders of each band, to wit, Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving each one fifteen hundred men.
2 Maccabees 9:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when he himself could not abide his own smell, he said these words, It is meet to be subject unto God, and that a man that is mortal should not proudly think of himself, as if he were God.
2 Maccabees 13:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
heard that Philip, who was left over the affairs in Antioch, was desperately bent, confounded, entreated the Jews, submitted himself, and swore to all equal conditions, agreed with them, and offered sacrifice, honored the temple, and dealt kindly with the place,
3 Maccabees 1:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
By doing this, and by making donations to their temples, he inspired his subjects with confidence.
3 Maccabees 2:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless.
Wisdom of Solomon 8:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
I shall set the people in order, And the nations shall be subject unto me.
Wisdom of Solomon 18:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So he overcame the destroyer, not with might of body, Nor force of arms, But with a word subdued him that punished, Alleging the oaths and covenants made with the fathers.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5293, grouped by book.

3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 3 usages, New Testament
Romans 5 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 5 usages, New Testament
Ephesians 4 usages, New Testament
Philippians 1 usage, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
Titus 3 usages, New Testament
Hebrews 3 usages, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 6 usages, New Testament
2 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5293 FAQ

What does hypotasso (ὑποτάσσω) mean?

Hypotasso (Strong's G5293) is a Greek word most simply glossed "subordinate". hupotasso (hoop-ot-as'-so) v. 1. to subordinate 2. (reflexively) to obey

How many times is hypotasso (ὑποτάσσω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 57 linked usages for Strong's G5293 across 19 books.

Where can I study hypotasso (ὑποτάσσω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5293 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate hypotasso (ὑποτάσσω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as unto, under, obedient, obey, subdue, and put. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5293 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 16 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 9 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5293, with linked reader references where each row is available.