King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G5235
Transliteration: hyperballō
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-er-bal'-lo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to throw over or beyond, to run beyond
Meaning: to throw over or beyond, to run beyond
ὑπερβάλλω; from Homer down;
Word Summary
hyperballō: to throw over or beyond, to run beyond
Original Word: ὑπερβάλλωTransliteration: hyperballō
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-er-bal'-lo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to throw over or beyond, to run beyond
Meaning: to throw over or beyond, to run beyond
Strong's Concordance
exceeding, excel, pass. From huper and ballo; to throw beyod the usual mark, i.e. (figuratively) to surpass (only active participle supereminent) -- exceeding, excel, pass.
see GREEK huper
see GREEK ballo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5235: ὑπερβάλλωὑπερβάλλω; from Homer down;
1. transitive, to surpass in throwing; to throw over or beyond anything.
2. intransitive, to transcend, surpass, exceed, excel; participle ὑπερβαλλων, excelling, exceeding; Vulg. (in Ephesians 1:19; Ephesians 3:19)supereminens; (Aeschylus, Herodotus, Euripides, Isocrates, Xenophon, Plato, others): 2 Corinthians 3:10; 2 Corinthians 9:14; Ephesians 1:19; Ephesians 2:7; with a genitive of the object surpassed (Aeschylus Prom. 923; Plato, Gorgias, p. 475 b.; cf. Matthiae, § 358, 2), ἡ ὑπερβαλλουσα τῆς γνώσεως ἀγάπη Χρσιτου, the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, Ephesians 3:19 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 346 (324) note).