Word Summary
hyperōon: the upper story, the upper rooms
Original Word: ὑπερῷονTransliteration: hyperōon
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-er-o'-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: the upper story, the upper rooms
Meaning: the upper story, the upper rooms
Strong's Concordance
upper room.
Neuter of a derivative of huper; a higher part of the house, i.e. Apartment in the third story -- upper chamber (room).
see GREEK huper
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5253: ὑπεροωνὑπεροων,
ὑπεροωυ,
τό (from
ὑπεροως or
ὑπερωιος, 'upper,' and this from
ὑπέρ; like
πατρωιος,
πατροως, from
πατήρ; (cf.
Winers Grammar, 96 (91))), in the Greek writings (often in
Homer)
the highest part of the house, the upper rooms or story where the women resided; in Biblical Greek (the
Sept. for
עֲלִיָּה),
a room in the upper part of a house, sometimes built upon the flat roof of the house (
2 Kings 23:12), whither Orientals were accustomed to retire in order to sup, meditate, pray, etc.; (
R. V. upper chamber; cf.
B. D. under the word
; McClintock and Strong, under the word): Acts 1:13; Acts 9:37, 39; Acts 20:8 (Josephus, Vita30).