hypēretēs · officer, attendant

What it means

hypēretēs (ὑπηρέτης) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “officer, attendant”.

Helper, servant; an officer or guard of a court or a synagogue.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A man serving a judge as enforcer.
2. A helper who serves another.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• officers ×11
• attendants ×4
• assistant ×1
• attendant ×1
• officer ×1
• servant ×1
• servants ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×2
• Luke×2
• John×9
• Acts×4
• 1 Corinthians×1

• Matthew 5:25

  Come to terms quickly with your opponent while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

• Matthew 26:58

  And Peter was following him from a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside, he sat with the attendants to see the outcome.

• Mark 14:54

  And Peter followed him from a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest; and he was sitting with the attendants and warming himself at the fire.

• Mark 14:65

  And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face and to strike him and to say to him, “Prophesy!” And the attendants received him with blows.

• Luke 1:2

  just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us,

• Luke 4:20

  And rolling up the scroll and giving it back to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.

• John 7:32

  The Pharisees heard the crowd grumbling these things about him, and the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to seize him.

• John 7:45

  So the officers came to the high priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”

• John 7:46

  The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken like this!”

• John 18:3

  So Judas, having taken the cohort and officers from the high priests and from the Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

• John 18:12

  So the cohort and the commander and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.

• John 18:18

  Now the slaves and the officers were standing there, having made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were warming themselves; and Peter too was with them, standing and warming himself.

• John 18:22

  When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by gave Jesus a slap, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”

• John 18:36

  Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my officers would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.”

• John 19:6

  So when the high priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate says to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no ground for a charge in him.”

• Acts 5:22

  But the officers who came did not find them in the prison, and they returned and reported,

• Acts 5:26

  Then the captain went with the officers and brought them, not with force, for they were afraid of the people, that they might be stoned.

• Acts 13:5

  And when they were in Salamis, they were announcing the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their assistant.

• Acts 26:16

  But get up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and a witness both of the things in which you have seen me and of those in which I will appear to you,

• 1 Corinthians 4:1

  This is how one should regard us: as attendants of the Messiah and stewards of the mysteries of God.