Strong's #5262: hupodeigma (pronounced hoop-od'-igue-mah)

from 5263; an exhibit for imitation or warning (figuratively, specimen, adumbration):--en-(ex-)ample, pattern.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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hupodeigma

1) a sign suggestive of anything, delineation of a thing, representation, figure, copy

2) an example: for imitation

2a) of the thing to be imitated

2b) for a warning, of a thing to be shunned

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G5263

Citing in TDNT: 2:32, 141

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

John 13:15: "For I have given you an example, that ye should do"
Hebrews 4:11: "after the same example of unbelief."
Hebrews 8:5: "Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses"
Hebrews 9:23: "necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens"
James 5:10: "in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience."
2 Peter 2:6: "turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example"