ὑπόστασις
hypostasis · confidence, substance
Greek word · Strong’s number G5287 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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hypostasis (ὑπόστασις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “confidence, substance”.
Firm foundation; hence sure confidence, or the substance, the very being of something.
How to say it
hy·pos·ta·sis
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
- Firm conviction about something.
- Someone's very reality, what they are.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- confidence ×3
- assurance ×1
- being ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Corinthians 9:4
lest somehow, if Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we be put to shame —not to say you— in this confidence.
- 2 Corinthians 11:17
What I am saying I am not saying according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
- Hebrews 1:3
He, being the radiance of his glory and the exact imprint of his being, and sustaining all things by the word of his power, having made purification for sins by himself, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
- Hebrews 3:14
For we have become sharers in the Messiah, if indeed we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,
- Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proof of things not seen.