hypantaō · meet

What it means

hypantaō (ὑπαντάω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “meet”.

Go out to meet.

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. To go toward someone arriving, to welcome or face him.

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

How it is translated

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

• met ×7
• meet ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

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

• Matthew 8:28

  And when he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two men possessed by demons met him, coming out of the tombs, so violent that no one could pass along that road.

• Matthew 28:9

  And look, Jesus met them, saying, “Greetings.” And they came up and took hold of his feet and bowed down before him.

• Mark 5:2

  And when he had come out of the boat, at once a man with an unclean spirit met him from the tombs.

• Luke 8:27

  And when he stepped out onto the land, a certain man from the town who had demons met him; and for a long time he had not worn clothing, and he was not living in a house but in the tombs.

• Luke 14:31

  Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

• John 4:51

  And as he was already going down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy was alive.

• John 11:20

  So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed sitting in the house.

• John 11:30

  Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.

• John 12:18

  For this reason also the crowd went to meet him, because they heard that he had done this sign.

• Acts 16:16

  And it happened as we were going to the place of prayer that a certain slave girl who had a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.