Strong's #5236: huperbole (pronounced hoop-er-bol-ay')

from 5235; a throwing beyond others, i.e. (figuratively) supereminence; adverbially (with 1519 or 2596) pre- eminently:--abundance, (far more) exceeding, excellency, more excellent, beyond (out of) measure.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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huperbolē

1) a throwing beyond

2) metaphorically

2a) superiority, excellence, pre-eminence

2b) beyond measure, exceedingly, preeminently

2c) beyond all measure

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G5235

Citing in TDNT: 8:520, 1230

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Romans 7:13: "by the commandment might become exceeding sinful."
1 Corinthians 12:31: "yet show I unto you a more excellent way."
2 Corinthians 1:8: "in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength,"
2 Corinthians 4:7: "vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God,"
2 Corinthians 4:17: "which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal"
2 Corinthians 4:17: "which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal"
2 Corinthians 12:7: "lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me"
Galatians 1:13: "the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church"