Limitless Word
ὑπόδειγμαhypódeigma
GreekG52626 occurrences (KJV)

an exhibit for imitation or warning (figuratively, specimen, adumbration)

KJV renders it: en-(ex-)ample, pattern

Where it appears

  • John 13:15For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
  • Heb 4:11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
  • Heb 8:5who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”
  • Heb 9:23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • Jas 5:10Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
  • 2 Pet 2:6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.