ΥΠΕΡΦΕΡΟΜΕΝΑ, υπερφερομενα
YPERPHEROMENA, yperpheromena
Sounds Like: hoo-per-feh-ROH-meh-nah
Translations: being carried over, being carried beyond, surpassing, excelling, being superior
From the root: ΥΠΕΡΦΕΡΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a compound participle, formed from the preposition ΥΠΕΡ (hyper), meaning 'over' or 'beyond', and the verb ΦΕΡΩ (pherō), meaning 'to carry' or 'to bear'. In its active sense, it means 'to carry over' or 'to excel'. In its passive sense, as seen here, it means 'to be carried over' or 'to be carried beyond'. It describes something that is being moved past a certain point or is superior in quality or degree.
Inflection: Present, Middle/Passive Voice, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter, Plural
Strong’s number: G5242 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 1:16
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΠΕΡΦΕΡΩ.
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.
- ΥΠΕΡΟΙΣΕΙ — will excel, will surpass, will exceed, will carry over, will bear over
- ΥΠΕΡΦΕΡΕΙΝ — to excel, to surpass, to be superior, to carry over, to bear over
- ΥΠΕΡΦΕΡΩ — excel, surpass, be superior, carry over, bear over, be preeminent, be more excellent
- ΥΠΕΡΦΕΡΩΝ — excelling, surpassing, exceeding, carrying over, bearing over
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