Strong's Greek #5236 - ὑπερβολή, ῆς, ἡ huperbolé (a throwing beyond)

abundance, excess

From huperballo; a throwing beyond others, i.e. (figuratively) supereminence; adverbially (with eis or kata) pre- eminently -- abundance, (far more) exceeding, excellency, more excellent, beyond (out of) measure.

see GREEK huperballo

see GREEK eis

see GREEK kata

Strong's 5236: ὑπερβολή

ὑπερβολή, ὑπερβολης, ἡ (ὑπερβάλλω, which see), from Herodotus (8, 112, 4) and Thucydides down;

1. properly, a throwing beyond.

2. metaphorically, superiority, excellence, preeminence (R. V. exceeding greatness): with a genitive of the thing, 2 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Corinthians 12:7; καθ' ὑπερβολήν, beyond measure, exceedingly, preeminently: Romans 7:13; 1 Corinthians 12:31 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 54, 2b.; Buttmann, § 125, 11 at the end); 2 Corinthians 1:8; Galatians 1:13 (4 Macc. 3:18; Sophocles O. R. 1196; Isocrates, p. 84 d. (i. e. πρός Φιλ. 5); Polybius 3, 92, 10; Diodorus 2, 16; 17, 47); καθ' ὑπέρ εἰς ὑπερβολήν, beyond all measure (R. V. more and more exceedingly), 2 Corinthians 4:17.

STRONGS NT 5236a: ὑπερεγώὑπερεγώ (Lachmann), equivalent to ὑπέρ ἐγώ (see ὑπέρ, II. 2 c.): 2 Corinthians 11:23. Cf. Winer's Grammar, 46 (45).

Strong's Greek: 5236. ὑπερβολή (huperbolé) — 8 Occurrences

Romans 7:13 - N-AFS
GRK: γένηται καθ' ὑπερβολὴν ἁμαρτωλὸς ἡ
NAS: sin would become utterly sinful.
INT: might become beyond excessively sinful

1 Corinthians 12:31 - N-AFS
GRK: ἔτι καθ' ὑπερβολὴν ὁδὸν ὑμῖν
NAS: you a still more excellent way.
KJV: unto you a more excellent way.
INT: yet by more surpassing a way to you

2 Corinthians 1:8 - N-AFS
GRK: ὅτι καθ' ὑπερβολὴν ὑπὲρ δύναμιν
KJV: out of measure, above
INT: that against excessively beyond [our] power

2 Corinthians 4:7 - N-NFS
GRK: ἵνα ἡ ὑπερβολὴ τῆς δυνάμεως
NAS: so that the surpassing greatness of the power
KJV: that the excellency of the power
INT: that the surpassingness of the power

2 Corinthians 4:17 - N-AFS
GRK: ἡμῶν καθ' ὑπερβολὴν εἰς ὑπερβολὴν
NAS: of glory far beyond
INT: of us far surpassing to excessiveness

2 Corinthians 4:17 - N-AFS
GRK: ὑπερβολὴν εἰς ὑπερβολὴν αἰώνιον βάρος
NAS: far beyond all comparison,
INT: surpassing to excessiveness an eternal weight

2 Corinthians 12:7 - N-DFS
GRK: καὶ τῇ ὑπερβολῇ τῶν ἀποκαλύψεων
NAS: Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations,
KJV: I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations,
INT: And by the surpassingness of the revelations

Galatians 1:13 - N-AFS
GRK: ὅτι καθ' ὑπερβολὴν ἐδίωκον τὴν
NAS: beyond measure and tried to destroy
KJV: beyond measure I persecuted
INT: that beyond exceeding measure I was persecuting the