Original Word: ὑπερνικάω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: hupernikaó
Pronunciation: hoop-er-nee-KAH-oh
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-er-nik-ah'-o)
KJV: more than conquer
NASB: overwhelmingly conquer
Word Origin: [from G5228 (ὑπέρ - behalf) and G3528 (νικάω - overcome)]

1. to vanquish beyond, i.e. gain a decisive victory

to prevail completely

From huper and nikao; to vanquish beyond, i.e. Gain a decisive victory -- more than conquer.

see GREEK huper

see GREEK nikao

5245 hypernikáō (from 5228 /hypér, "beyond" and 3528 /nikáō, "conquer") – properly, exceedingly conquer, being "more than a conqueror," i.e. "super-conqueror" who is "completely and overwhelmingly victorious" (L & N, 1, 39.58). 5245 (hypernikáō) is used only in Ro 8:37.

[The intensive prefix (hyper) adds the idea, "surpassing victory" (i.e. of a pre-eminent conqueror).]

Word Origin
from huper and nikaó
Definition
to be more than conqueror
NASB Translation
overwhelmingly conquer (1).

STRONGS NT 5245: ὑπερνικάω

ὑπερνικάω, ὑπερνίκω; (Cypriansupervinco); to be more than a conqueror, to gain a surpassing victory: Romans 8:37. (Leon. tactic. 14, 25 νικᾷ καί μή ὑπερνικα; Socrat. h. e. 3, 21 νικαν καλόν, ὑπερνικαν δέ σπιφθονον. Found in other ecclesiastical writings (Eusebius, h. e. 8, 14, 15, uses ὑπερεκνικαν.)

Forms and Transliterations

υπερνικωμεν υπερνικώμεν ὑπερνικῶμεν hypernikomen hypernikômen hypernikōmen hypernikō̂men upernikomen upernikōmen

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