Lexical Summary hypogrammos: a writing to be copied, an example Original Word: ὑπογραμμόςTransliteration: hypogrammos Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-og-ram-mos') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a writing to be copied, an example Meaning: a writing to be copied, an example Strong's Concordance example. From a compound of hupo and grapho; an underwriting, i.e. Copy for imitation (figuratively) -- example. see GREEK hupo see GREEK grapho Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5261: ὑπογραμμόςὑπογραμμός, ὑπογραμμου, ὁ (ὑπογράφω), properly, 1. a writing-copy, including all the letters of the alphabet, given to beginners as an aid in learning to draw them: Clement of Alexandria, strom. 5, 8, 50. Hence, 2. an example set before one: 1 Peter 2:21 (2 Macc. 2:28; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 16, 17 [ET]; 33, 8 [ET]; (Philo, fragment vol. ii., 667 Mang. (vi. 229 Richter)), and often in ecclesiastical writings; ὁ Παῦλος ὑπομονῆς γενόμενος μέγιστος ὑπογραμμός, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 5, 7 [ET] (where see Lightfoot)). |