Strong’s G5287 · Greek
ὑπόστασις
hypóstasis · hoop-os'-tas-is
Origin from a compound of ὑπό (G5259) and ἵστημι (G2476);
Meaning a setting under (support), i.e. (figuratively) concretely, essence, or abstractly, assurance (objectively or subjectively)
In the King James Version confidence, confident, person, substance.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Corinthians 9:4Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
- 2 Corinthians 11:17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
- Hebrews 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Hebrews 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
- Hebrews 11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.