Quick Definition
ὑπερῷον, ου, τό n.n. an upper room
Strong's Definition
a higher part of the house, i.e. apartment in the third story
Derivation: neuter of a derivative of G5228 (ὑπέρ);
KJV Usage: upper chamber (room)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -ου | ὑπέρ
7.27 · Constructions · Parts and Areas of Buildings
upstairs room a room on the level above the ground floor (second story in American usage and first story in most other languages) In ACT 1:13 ACT 9:37 ACT 9:39 ACT 20:8 the term ὑπερῷον may refer to the kind of rooms often built on the flat-roofed Middle East housetops.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ὑπερῷον, -ov, τό, (fr. ὑπερῷος or ὑπερώϊος, ‘upper,’ and this fr. ὑπέρ; like matpwios, πατρῷος, fr. πατήρ; [cf. W. 96 (91)]), in the Grk. writ. (often in Hom.) the highest part of the house, the upper rooms or story where the women resided; in bibl. Grk. (Sept. for 7°9y), a room in the upper part of a house, sometimes built upon the flat roof of the house (2 K. xxiii. 12), whither Orientals were wont to retire in order to sup, meditate, pray, ete.; [R. V. upper chamber; cf. B.D. 5. v. House; McC. and 5. 5. ν.1: Acts i. 13; ix. 37, 39; xx. 8, (Joseph. vit. 30).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ὑπερῷον hyperōon 4x
the upper part of a house, upper room, or chamber, Acts 1:13; 9:37, 39; 20:8*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ὑπερῷον, -ου, τό
(neut. of ὑπερῷος, above, < ὑπέρ) [in LXX for עֲלִיָּה and cogn. forms ;]
in cl., the upper story or upper rooms where the women resided (Hom., a1.).
In LXX and NT, an upper chamber, roof-chamber, built on the flat roof of the house (v. DB, iii, 674a): Ac 1:13 9:37, 39 20:8 (cf. IV Ki 23:22).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ὑπερῷον, (τό, neut. of ὑπερῷος), ‘‘ upper-chamber,”’ ‘‘roof-chamber,” Ac 138 a/.: cf. BGU III. 999! ® (B.c. 99) τὸ ἐν TO ἀπὸ λιβὸς μέρει ὑπερῶν (1. ὑπερῷον) a, and for a corr. use of the vem. P Flor III. 28512 (A.D. 552) ἀνδρεῶνα. . . ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ στέγῃ σὺν [ὑἹπερῴᾳ. Other exx. of the adj. are P Oxy I. 7015 (Α΄ Ὁ: 179), a woman declares that her father had certain rooms in a house 2) ἐς belonging to her, including ὑπερῴους δύο, “two upperchambers,” 26. VIII, 1127° (A.D. 183) τὸν ὑπερῷον τόπον τῆς ὑπαρχούσης aitw . . οἰκίας, Preisigke 61% (A.D. 216) ἡ δὲ αἰτία τῆς κλοπῆς ἐφάνη τοῦ τόπου ὑπερῴ[ο]υ ὄντος ἐκ τοῦ ποδώματος διατρ[ηθέϊντος τὴν κακουργίαν γεγονέναι, P Lond V. 187412 (A.D, 605 or 613) ἀπὸ θ]εμελίων μέχρι tov ὑπερῴων, and Sy// 804 (= ὅ1:170)}} (ii/A.D.) περιπάτῳ χρῆσθαι ὑπερώῳ. See also Luckhard, Privathaus, p. 72. ὑπέχω. The metaph. usage ‘‘ undergo,” “‘ suffer,” of this verb in Jude’, its only NT occurrence, can be readily illustrated from the common phrase τὸ δίκαιον ὑπέχειν, e.g. P Hal I. 1468 (mid. iii/B.c.) λα[μ]βαν[ἐτήΊωσαν τὸ δίκαιον [κ]αὶ ὑπεχέτω[σ]αν, P Petr 11. 12 (3)* (B.c. 241) ἐπαναγκάσαι αὐτὸν τὸ δίκαιον ἡμῖν ὑποσχεῖν, “to force him to do us justice,” and P Tebt I. 5°18 (p.c. 118) ὑπέχειν kal λαμβάνειν τὸ δίκαιον ἐπὶ τῶν χρηματιστῶν, ‘‘to give and receive satisfaction before the chrematistae’’: cf. P Fay 2125 (a.p. 134) ὅπ]ως τῆς ἀποθίας ἐκῖνοι τὴν προσήκουσαν δίκηϊν ὑἸπόσχωσι, ‘‘so that the creditors may pay the fitting penalty for their disobedience” (Edd.). See also BGU IV.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ὑπερῷον (huperōon) — upper room. ὑπερῷον, Epic dialect and Ionic dialect ὑπερ-ώϊον, τό, the upper part of the house, where the women resided, παρθένος αἰδοίη ὑπερώϊον εἰσαναβᾶσα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὑπερωϊόθεν φρεσὶ σύνθετο θέσπιν ἀοιδὴν.. Πηνελόπεια from her chamber she heard it, [Refs]upper chamber or story, [NT+2nd c.AD+]
2. attic, garret, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a spare room, [Refs 5th c.BC+]