What does ὑπήκοος (hypḗkoos) mean in the Bible?
ὑπήκοος (hypḗkoos): Obedience as active listening and submission to authority, not mere compliance
Greek · G5255
ὑπήκοος
Obedient
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ὑπήκοος G5255
Pronunciation hypḗkoos
What does ὑπήκοος (hypḗkoos) mean in the Bible?
ὑπήκοος (hypḗkoos): Obedience as active listening and submission to authority, not mere compliance
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G5255?
The BSB source-word alignment has 3 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include be obedient (1), obedient (1), obey (1).
Where does ὑπήκοος (hypḗkoos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 7:39. Its strongest book concentrations include 2 Corinthians (1), Acts (1), Philippians (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It be obedient 1× 2 Corinthians 2:9
obedient 1× Philippians 2:8
obey 1× Acts 7:39
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Acts 7:39
Aligned rows 3
Books represented 3
Acts 1 2 Corinthians 1 Philippians 1
Source forms
ὑπήκοοι 1x hypēkooi Acts 7:39
ὑπήκοοί 1x hypēkooi 2 Corinthians 2:9
ὑπήκοος 1x hypēkoos Philippians 2:8
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural 2x Acts 7:39, 2 Corinthians 2:9
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular 1x Philippians 2:8
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Obedience as active listening and submission to authority, not mere compliance
Strong's G5255
Lexical occurrences 3 verses Greek text appearances 3 times Word forms 2 forms 3 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
obedient
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
3 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 7:39 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
ὑπήκοοι uphkooi
listening to, obedient
Read verse 2 Corinthians 2:9 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
ὑπήκοοί uphkooi
listening to, obedient
Read verse Philippians 2:8 Adjective Nominative Singular Masculine
ὑπήκοος uphkoov
listening to, obedient
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 3 Case pattern Nominative (3) Number pattern Plural (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Masculine Acts 7:39 · 2 Cor 2:9 2×
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Phil 2:8 1×
Word Origins
ὑπήκοος is built from this root:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain