hypodeigma · example

What it means

hypodeigma (ὑπόδειγμα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “example”.

A model to be imitated.

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 model to imitate or to take warning from.

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

How it is translated

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

• example ×4
• copies ×1
• copy ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• John×1
• Hebrews×3
• James×1
• 2 Peter×1

• John 13:15

  For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done to you, you also may do.

• Hebrews 4:11

  Let us make every effort, then, to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall by the same example of disobedience.

• Hebrews 8:5

  they worship in a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tent: See, he says, that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.

• Hebrews 9:23

  It was necessary, then, for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

• James 5:10

  As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

• 2 Peter 2:6

  and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having made them an example for the ungodly of what is coming;