ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΑ, υπερηφανα
YPERĒPHANA, yperēphana
Sounds Like: hoo-per-AY-fah-nah
Translations: haughty, arrogant, proud, boastful, presumptuous, proudly, arrogantly
From the root: ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Adverb
Explanation: This word describes someone or something that is excessively proud, arrogant, or boastful. It implies a sense of superiority and disdain for others. As an adjective, it can describe a person or their actions. As an adverb, it describes how an action is performed, meaning 'proudly' or 'arrogantly'.
Inflection: Neuter Plural Nominative, Neuter Plural Accusative, Neuter Plural Vocative, or Neuter Singular Adverbial
Strong’s number: G5244 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 19:140
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 10 — 11:225
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 9:12
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- Υ̓ΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟΙΣ — proud, arrogant, haughty, boastful, disdainful, a proud one, an arrogant one
- Υ̓ΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟΣ — proud, arrogant, haughty, a proud person
- ΥΕΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΩΝ — of the proud, of the arrogant, of the haughty
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝ — proud, arrogant, haughty, a proud person
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΗΣΗΣ — proud, arrogant, haughty, a proud one, an arrogant one
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟ — proud, arrogant, haughty, a proud one, an arrogant one
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟΙ — proud, arrogant, haughty, the proud, the arrogant
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟΙΣ — (to) the proud, (to) the arrogant, (to) the haughty
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟΝ — proud, arrogant, haughty, a proud one, an arrogant one
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟΣ — proud, arrogant, haughty, a proud person, an arrogant person
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟΥ — proud, arrogant, haughty, a proud one, the proud
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΟΥΣ — proud, arrogant, haughty, a proud person, arrogant people
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΩΝ — proud, arrogant, haughty, boastful, a proud one, an arrogant one
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΩΣ — proudly, arrogantly, haughtily, boastfully
- ΥΠΕΡΗΦΑΝΩΤΕΡΟΝ — more arrogant, prouder, haughtier, a more arrogant thing, a prouder thing, a haughtier thing
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