TRV
ὑπακούω
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Greek New Testament, this word appears as a verb across 21 occurrences, inflected in 11 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it. These are this word’s own inflections, not words built from it — for those, see Related Words.
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ὑπακούετε
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ὑπήκουσεν
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ὑπακούουσιν
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ὑπηκούσατε
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ὑπακούει
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
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ὑπακούουσιν
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Dative
- The indirect object — often "to" or "for".
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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ὑπήκουσαν
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ὑπακοῦσαι
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a single whole — usually a simple past event.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
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ὑπήκουον
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ὑπακούετε
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Indicative
- A plain statement of fact.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
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ὑπακούειν
- Present
- Action in progress or repeated — happening now or continually.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Infinitive
- The verb as a noun — "to do".
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 21 verses across 11 of the 27 books. Most frequent in Romans (4 verses); never once in the other 16.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.