ἀντιλογία
antilogía · G485 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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dispute, contradictory statements
A dispute involving opposite opinions
ExamplesHebrews 6:16 For people swear an oath by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath serving as confirmation is an end of every dispute.
Hebrews 7:7 But without any dispute the lesser person is blessed by the greater.
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contradiction
(Derivative of ἀντιλέγω ‘to speak against,’) A contradiction involving a contrary statement or evidence
ExamplesHebrews 6:16 For people swear an oath by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath serving as confirmation is an end of every dispute.
Hebrews 7:7 But without any dispute the lesser person is blessed by the greater.
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rebellion, strong opposition, defiance
Rebellion against authority, with special focus upon verbal opposition
ExamplesHebrews 12:3 For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Jude 1:11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have given themselves up to the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ΚορέCore 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τοιοῦτοςsuch 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὑπομένωto endure, to remain 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- χωρίςwithout 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πέραςend 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- רִיב rîyb · H7379 · dispute, quarrel, strife
- Hebrew רִיב denotes contention, legal dispute, or strife, often in a covenant-lawsuit context, while Greek ἀντιλογία denotes verbal opposition, contradiction, or rebellious argument; both capture adversarial confrontation carried out through speech, with רִיב's broader forensic range overlapping ἀντιλογία's core sense of contradiction.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Dispute, contradictory statements33.445
- In Hebrews 6:16, the writer observes that “people swear an oath by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath serving as confirmation is an end of every dispute (antilogías),” describing a formal settlement of competing claims.
- Contradiction33.456
- In Hebrews 12:3, believers are told to “consider Him who has endured such hostility (antilogían) by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart,” describing the contradiction and opposition Jesus endured from those who spoke against Him.
- Rebellion, strong opposition, defiance39.35
- In Jude 1:11, false teachers are condemned because they “perished in the rebellion (antilogía) of Korah,” naming an outright uprising against divinely appointed authority.
Word family 39 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀντιλογίας, ἡ (ἀντίλογος, and this from ἀντιλέγω) (from Herodotus down); 1. gainsaying,…
1. gainsaying, contradiction: Heb 7:7; with the added notion of strife, Heb 6:16 (Ex 18:16; Deut 19:17, etc.).
2. opposition in act (this sense is disputed by some, e. g. Lün. on Heb. as below, Meyer on Rom 10:21 (see ἀντιλέγω); contra cf. Fritzsche on Romans, the passage cited): Heb 12:3; rebellion, Jude 1:11 (Prov 17:11).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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