noun · feminine
antithesias
Strong’sG477
opposition
stem antithesi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* ἀντί-θεσις, -εως, ἡ
(< τίθημι),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G477 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
opposition, Refs 5th c.BC+correspond to.., Refs 4th c.BC+; resistance, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 in Logic, opposition of propositions, in plural, Refs 4th c.BC+
2.b substitution of the contradictory, as 'not-man' for 'man', ἡ σὺν -θέσει ἀντιστροφή, conversion by negation, e.g. 'man is an animal ∴ what is not an animal cannot be a man', Refs
3 Rhet., antithesis, Refs 5th c.BC+; in forensic oratory, counter-proposition, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 Grammars, change or transposition of a letter,Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | antithesias | antithesiais |
| object accusative | antithesian | antithesiain1×ἀντιθέσεις |
| direct address vocative | antithesiar | antithesiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | antithesiau | antithesiaiu |
| to, for dative | antithesia | antithesiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
antithesia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
antithesiain“contradictions”objectaccusative plural1×
1 Timothy 6:20“contradictions”… fulassasar, ektraporōntos tain bebēlain kenofōniain kai antithesiain tau pseudōnumau gnōsiau,O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of so-called “knowledge,”