ὑπερῷον
hyperōion · upper room
Greek word · Strong’s number G5253 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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hyperōion (ὑπερῷον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “upper room”.
A room on the upper floor or roof of a house.
How to say it
hy·pe·rōi·on
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
- Room on the top floor.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
Where it appears
- Acts 1:13
And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.
- Acts 9:37
And it happened in those days that she became sick and died; and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.
- Acts 9:39
So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they brought him up to the upper room, and all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and garments that Dorcas used to make while she was with them.
- Acts 20:8
And there were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.