Bible word study

Hyparcho (Strong’s G5225): Meaning in the Bible

Hyparcho (ὑπάρχω) is the Greek word numbered G5225 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to begin under (quietly), i.e. come into existence (be present or at hand); expletively, to exist (as copula or subordinate to an adjective, participle, adverb or preposition, or as an auxiliary to a principal (verb). In the King James Bible it is translated after, behave, live..

• Original wordὑπάρχω
• Transliterationhypárchō
• Pronunciationhoop-ar'-kho
• Strong’s numberG5225
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G5259 and G756;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Hyparcho appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Hyparcho (G5225) stands behind 46 English renderings in 43 verses across 8 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Acts (25), Luke (6), 1 Corinthians (4).

How the King James Bible renders Hyparcho, by count

• being13 of 46 (28 percent)
• be7 of 46 (15 percent)
• was5 of 46 (11 percent)
• were5 of 46 (11 percent)
• is4 of 46 (9 percent)
• are3 of 46 (7 percent)

Three places to read Hyparcho

• Luke 7:25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.
• Acts 14:8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
• Acts 28:18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Hyparcho in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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