noun · feminine
apantēsias
Strong’sG529
the act of meeting, to meet
stem apantēsi-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 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.
ἀπάντησις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἀπαντάω), [in LXX chiefly for לִקְרַאת;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G529 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-an'-tay-sis
a (friendly) encounter
Fromfrom G528;
King Jamesmeet.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
= {ἀπάντημα}, Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς -σίν τινι ἐξελθεῖνLXX+NT; escort, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II meeting in argument, reply, πρός τιRefs 4th c.BC+; ἀ. ποιεῖσθαι to reply, Refs 2nd c.BC+; προσφιλὴς κατ᾽ ἀ. in conversation, Refs 1st c.BC+
III steadfastness in face of opposition, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | apantēsias | apantēsiais |
| object accusative | apantēsian3×ἀπάντησιν | apantēsiain |
| direct address vocative | apantēsiar | apantēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | apantēsiau | apantēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | apantēsia | apantēsiai |
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
apantēsia 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
apantēsian“meet”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 25:6… genatē; Idou tos numfios, exerchovōr eis apantēsian autou.… is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
Acts 28:15… akouarantois teim peri nu erchala eis apantēsian ni achri Appiouou Foreu kai Treis …… Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When Paul saw them, he …
1 Thessalonians 4:17… sun autoi harpazini en nefelai eis apantēsian tou kuriou eis aeron; kai houtōs …… with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And …