tounantion

Strong’sG5121

on the contrary

stem tounanti-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books0 of 6 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.

τοὐναντίον

by crasis for τὸ ἐνανίον, neut. acc, used adverbially, on the contrary, contrariwise: II Co 2:7, Ga 2:7, I Pe 3:9.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5121 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtoo-nan-tee'-on

on the contrary

Fromcontraction for the neuter of G3588 and G1726;

King Jamescontrariwise.

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

Included with: ἐναντίος, α, ον,
opposite, ={ἀντίος} (which is rare in Prose):
1 of Place, on the opposite side, opposite, c.dative, ἀκταὶ ἐναντίαι ἀλλήλῃσιν Refs 8th c.BC+: hence, fronting, face to face, αὐτῳ οὔ πω φαίνετ᾽ ἐναντίη Refs 7th c.BC+; δεῖξον.. τὸ σὸν πρόσωπον δεῦρ᾽ ἐ. πατρί before him, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰναντία τινί things open to one's sight, Refs 5th c.BC+ look opposite ways, Refs 5th c.BC+
1.b with Verbs of motion, in the opposite direction, ἔνθα οἱ.. ἐναντίη ἤλυθε μήτηρ came to meet him, Refs 8th c.BC+
1.c Astrology texts, in diametrical aspect, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 in hostile sense, opposing, facing in fight, with genitive, ἐναντίοι ἔσταν Ἀχαιῶν Refs 8th c.BC+; οἱ ἐ. one's adversaries, Refs 5th c.BC+; the enemy, Refs 5th c.BC+
2.b generally, opposed to, τινί Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ ἐ. the opposite party, Refs; presenting obstacles, hindering, τινί Refs 5th c.BC+
2.c ὁ δι ἐναντίας the opponent in a alawsuit, Refs 3rd c.AD+
3 of qualities, acts, etc., opposite, contrary, reverse, τἀναντί᾽ εἰπεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+ the very reverse of these things, Refs 5th c.BC+; δείξας.. ἄστρων τὴν ἐ. ὁδόν, i.e. τὴν τοῦ ἡλίου ὁδὸν ἐ. οὖσαν τοῖς ἄστροις Refs 5th c.BC+; τἀναντία πρήσσειν [τῇ ὑγιείῃ] Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐναντία γνῶναι ταῖς πλείσταις [πόλεσιν] Refs 5th c.BC+., quite the contrary, Lg.Refs 5th c.BC+; πολὺ τοὐ. Refs 5th c.BC+
3.b τὰ ἐ. opposites in Philos., Refs 6th c.BC+
4 in the Philos. of Refs 4th c.BC+ are contraries, especially the two attributes within the same genus which differ most widely from each other (as hot and cold), Refs
4.b ἐ. ἀποφάνσεις, προτάσεις, contrary propositions (All Refs, opposed to contradictory (see. ἀντιφατικῶς), Refs
II frequently in adverb usages:
II.1 from Refs 8th c.BC+ as adverb, opposite, facing, ἐ. ὧδε κάλεσσον here to my face, Refs 8th c.BC+; εἰς ὦπα ἰδέσθαι ἐ. to look one in the face,Refs 5th c.BC+: hence, like a preposition with genitive, in the presence of, τῆς βουλῆς Refs; τῶνδ᾽ ἐ. Refs 5th c.BC+; μαρτύρων ἐ. Refs 5th c.BC+
II.1.b in hostile sense, against, with genitive, ἀνέσταν.. σφοῦ πατρὸς ἐ. Refs 8th c.BC+ stand one's ground against, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.1.c contrariwise, in Attic dialect also with the Article, τοὐναντίον on the other hand, τοὐ. δέ.. Refs 4th c.BC+; ἢ πάλιν τοὐ. Refs 4th c.BC+; conversely, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.1.d neuter plural ἐναντία as adverb, with dative, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 with Preps., ἐκ τοῦ ἐ. over against, opposite, opposed to ἐκ πλαγίου, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐξ ἐναντίας, Ionic dialect -ίης, Refs 5th c.BC+. the opposing parties, probably in Refs 4th c.AD+; ἐκ τῶν ἐ. on the contrary, Refs 2nd c.BC+; κατὰ τὰ ἐ. Refs 5th c.BC+ the opposite sides of the parallelogram, Refs 3rd c.BC+; αἱ κατ᾽ ἐ. τομαί opposite sections (i. e. branches) of the hyperbola, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.3 regular adverb -ίως contrariwise, with dative, τούτοις οὐκ ἐ. λέγεις Refs 5th c.BC+; πικρῶς καὶ ἐ. like an enemy, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐ. ἔχειν to be exactly opposed, Refs; πρός τι to be contrary in respect of.., Refs 4th c.BC+; in the Logic of Refs 4th 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.

on the contrary2×instead1×

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 or object direct	tounantion	tounantion
of, belonging to genitive	tounantion	tounantion
to, for dative	tounantion	tounantion

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

tounantionstem

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

tounantion3×

2 Corinthians 2:7hōste tounantion mallon vin charizera kai parakalara, mē …So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort …

Galatians 2:7alla tounantion horarantois hoti pisteuomē tem euangeliem tau …On the contrary, they saw that I had been …

1 Peter 3:9“on the contrary”… anti kakoseu ē loidorian anti loidoriau tounantion de eulogarōntois, hoti eis houtem kaliva …… evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that …