ἀπάντησις
apántēsis · G529 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to draw near, to meet, to meet up with
To come near to and to meet, either in a friendly or hostile sense
ExamplesMatthew 25:6 “But at midnight there finally was a shout: ‘Behold, the groom! Come out to meet him.’
Acts 28:15 And from there the brothers and sisters, when they heard about us, came as far as the Market of Appius and the Three Inns to meet us; and when Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
How it’s used In 2 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- κύριοςLord 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 6
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
- קָרָא qârâʼ · H7122 · to cry out, to read, to recite
- Hebrew קָרָא (qârâʼ, H7122) encompasses a broader semantic range including happenings and chance encounters, while Greek ἀπάντησις (apántēsis, G529) specifically denotes the act of going out to meet someone, typically in a friendly or welcoming context (cf. Matthew 25:6, Acts 28:15).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To draw near, to meet, to meet up with15.78
- In Matthew 25:6, in the parable of the ten virgins, “at midnight there finally was a shout: 'Behold, the groom! Come out to meet (apántēsin) him,'” describing the act of going out to greet an arriving figure.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀπαντεως, ἡ (ἀπαντάω), a meeting; εἰς ἀπάντησιν τίνος or τίνι to meet one: Mt 25:1 R G;…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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