τοὐναντίον
tounantíon · G5121 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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instead
On the contrary
Examples1 Peter 3:9 not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you would inherit a blessing.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀλλά allá · G235 · but, instead, on the contrary
- ἀλλά is a strong adversative conjunction ('but,' 'rather') used to introduce a contrast or correction, functionally similar to τοὐναντίον's role of reversing an expectation, though ἀλλά is a conjunction while τοὐναντίον is an adverbial expression.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- On the contrary, rather, instead89.134
- Galatians 2:7 — “But on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised.”
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (by crasis for τό ἀναντιον (Buttmann, 10)) ((Arstpb., Thucydides, others)), on the…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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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