Strong's #5228: huper (pronounced hoop-er')
a primary preposition; "over", i.e. (with the genitive case) of place, above, beyond, across, or causal, for the sake of, instead, regarding; with the accusative case superior to, more than:--(+ exceeding, abundantly) above, in (on) behalf of, beyond, by, + very chiefest, concerning, exceeding (above, -ly), for, + very highly, more (than), of, over, on the part of, for sake of, in stead, than, to(-ward), very. In the comparative, it retains many of the above applications.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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huper
1) in behalf of, for the sake of
2) over, beyond, more than
3) more, beyond, over
Part of Speech: preposition
Relation: a primary preposition
Citing in TDNT: 8:507, 1228
Usage:
This word is used 161 times:
Romans 15:9: "Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause"
Romans 15:30: "Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for"
Romans 16:4: "Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom"
1 Corinthians 1:13: "was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in"
1 Corinthians 4:6: "in us not to think of men above that which is written, that"
1 Corinthians 4:6: "that no one of you be puffed up for one against another."
1 Corinthians 5:7: "our passover is sacrificed for us:"
1 Corinthians 10:13: "suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with"
1 Corinthians 10:30: "be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?"
1 Corinthians 11:24: "is my body, which is broken for you: this do"
1 Corinthians 12:25: "that the members should have the same care one for another."
1 Corinthians 15:3: "received, how that Christ died for our sins according"
1 Corinthians 15:29: "what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead"
1 Corinthians 15:29: "why are they then baptized for the dead?"
2 Corinthians 1:6: "And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation,"
2 Corinthians 1:6: "suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation."
2 Corinthians 1:7: "And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that"
2 Corinthians 1:8: "not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came"
2 Corinthians 1:8: "Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that"
2 Corinthians 1:11: "also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon"
2 Corinthians 1:11: "thanks may be given by many on our behalf."
2 Corinthians 5:12: "you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to"
2 Corinthians 5:14: "if one died for all, then were all dead:"
2 Corinthians 5:15: "And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live"
2 Corinthians 5:15: "unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again."
2 Corinthians 5:20: "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by"
2 Corinthians 5:20: "you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God."
2 Corinthians 5:21: "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin;"
2 Corinthians 7:4: "great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding"
2 Corinthians 7:7: "your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I"
2 Corinthians 7:12: "but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear"
2 Corinthians 7:14: "For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed;"
2 Corinthians 8:3: "their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;"
2 Corinthians 8:16: "the heart of Titus for you."
2 Corinthians 8:23: "Whether any do inquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning"
2 Corinthians 8:24: "love, and of our boasting on your behalf."
2 Corinthians 9:2: "forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that"
2 Corinthians 9:3: "lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this"
2 Corinthians 9:14: "And by their prayer for you, which long after you for"
2 Corinthians 11:5: "I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles."
2 Corinthians 11:23: "(speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in"
2 Corinthians 12:5: " Of such a one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory,"
2 Corinthians 12:5: "such a one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but"
2 Corinthians 12:6: "should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or"
2 Corinthians 12:8: " For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart"
2 Corinthians 12:10: "persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak,"
2 Corinthians 12:11: "in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be"
2 Corinthians 12:13: "is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that"
2 Corinthians 12:15: "spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love"
2 Corinthians 12:19: "but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying."
