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Strong G473ἀντί

for

Transliteration
anti
Pronunciation
an-tee'
Morphology
Greek Preposition

Definition

A primary particle;
opposite that is instead or because of (rarely in addition to): - for in the room of. Often used in composition to denote contrast requital 6
substitution correspondence etc.

Detailed definition

ἀντί
(the ι is elided only in ἀνθ᾽ ὧν), prep. with genitive (cf. MM, VGT, see word);
1. prop, in local sense, over against, opposite, hence

2. instead of, in place of, for (Hom., etc.): Mat.5:38 17:27, Luk.11:11, 1Co.11:15, Heb.12:2; with artic. inf. (cl.), Jas.4:15; of succession, Mat.2:22; χάριν ἀ. χάριτος, Jhn.1:16 (M, Pr., 100); of price in exchange, Heb.12:16; λύτρον ἀ. πολλῶν, Mat.20:28, Mrk.10:45 (M, Pr., 105); of requital, Rom.12:17, 1Th.5:16, 1Pe.3:9 (cf. Wis.11:15); ἀνθ᾽ ὧν, because, Luk.1:20 19:44, Act.12:23, 2Th.2:10 (cl., LXX for אֲשֶׁר תַּחַת); id. therefore (cl., LXX), Luk.12:3; ἀ. τούτου (LXX for כֵּן נַעֲרָה)Eph.5:31. As a prefix, ἀντι- (before vowels ἀντ-, ἀνθ᾽-), denotes
__(a) over against, ἀντιπέραν;
__(b) co-operation, ἀντιβάλλειν;
__(with) requital, ἀντιμισθία;
__(d) opposition, ἀντίχριστος;
__(e) substitution, ἀνθύπατος.
Compounds of ἀ. usually govern dative (B1., § 37, 7).†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G473 appears in 20 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • for14
  • because4
  • room1
  • therefore1

First verses

  1. Matthew 2:22
    But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
  2. Matthew 5:38
    Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
  3. Matthew 17:27
    Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
  4. Matthew 20:28
    Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  5. Mark 10:45
    For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  6. Luke 1:20
    And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
  7. Luke 11:11
    If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
  8. Luke 12:3
    Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
  9. Luke 19:44
    And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
  10. John 1:16
    And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
  11. Acts 12:23
    And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
  12. Romans 12:17
    Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
  13. 1 Corinthians 11:15
    But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
  14. Ephesians 5:31
    For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
  15. 1 Thessalonians 5:15
    See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
  16. 2 Thessalonians 2:10
    And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
  17. Hebrews 12:2
    Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  18. Hebrews 12:16
    Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
  19. James 4:15
    For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
  20. 1 Peter 3:9
    Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀντί,
preposition governing genitive:—originally sense, over against. (Cf. Sanskrit ánti 'opposite', 'facing', Latin ante, etc.)
A USAGE:
A.I of Place, opposite, over against, formerly quoted from several places of [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, as 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.481 ἀντὶ ἐμεῖο (where now ἀντί᾽ ἐμεῖο, i.e. ἀντία) Τρώων ἄνθ᾽ ἑκατόν (i.e. ἄντα) 8.233)]; so ἄντ᾽ Αἴαντος (i.e. ἄντα)[Refs 8th c.BC+ (15.415, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.115, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 727)]; but ἀντί is so used in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.7.6, “IG” 2.835)]c-l68; αἱ ὀπαὶ αἱ γιγνόμεναι ἀ. τόρμων mortises facing tenons, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 97.5)]; ἀντὶ μαιτύρων in the presence of witnesses, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Leg.Gort.” 1.40; ἀντὶ τῆς ὄψεως ἡμῶν 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus “Ars astronomica” 18.)]
A.II of Time, ἀντὶ νυκτός the same night, [Refs (“SIG” 1025.43 (from Cos))]; ἀντὶ ϝέτεος[Refs 1st c.BC+ (“GDI” 2561 A 45 (Delph.); ἀντ᾽ ἐνιαυτοῦ “IG” 5(2).266.8 (Mantinea, 1st c.BC))]; ἀνθ᾽ ἡμέρας· δι᾽ ὅλης τῆς ἡμέρας, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; compare ἀντετοῦς.
A.III instead, in the place of, Ἕκτορος ἀντὶ πεφάσθαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.254; ἀντὶ γάμοιο τάφον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.307; so later πολέμιος ἀντὶ φίλου καταστῆναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.87; ἀντὶ ἡμέρης νὺξ ἐγένετο [prev. author] 7.37; ἀντὶ φωτῶν σποδός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 434; τὸν πόλεμον ἀντ᾽ εἰρήνης μεταλαμβάνειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120, compare 4.20, 7.75; βασιλεύειν ἀντί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.1.4; also ἀντὶ ἄρχεσθαι ὑπ᾽ ἄλλων ἄρχειν ἁπάντων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.210, compare 6.32, 7.170 (where the usual _construction_ would be ἀντὶ τοῦ ἄρχεσθαι,compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.28, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.19, etc.); ὀργίλοι ἀντὶ θυμοειδοῦς γεγένηνται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 411c)]: sometimes used elliptically, ἦ 'τολμήσατ᾽ ἀντ᾽ ἐμοῦ δοῦναί τιν; i.e. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐμοὶ δοῦναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 369, compare “OC” 448, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 58.)]
A.III.2 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus often to denote equivalence, ἀντί νυ πολλῶν λαῶν ἐστιν ἀνήρ)] he is as good as many men, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.116)]; ἀντὶ κασιγνήτου ξεῖνος.. τέτυκται a guest is as much as a brother, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.546)]; ἀντί τοί εἰμ᾽ ἱκέταο I am as a suppliant, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.75, compare 8.163)]; so later τοῦτό σφι ἀντὶ λουτροῦ ἐστί serves as a bath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.75)]; ὑπάρχειν ἀντὶ τῶν ἔνδον to be as hostages for.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.5)]; δουλεύειν ἀντὶ ἀργυρωνήτων just like bought slaves, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 17.3; ἀντὶ [πλεύμονος] βράγχια 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 669a4.)]
A.III.3 to denote exchange, at the price of, in return for, σοὶ δὲ θεοὶ τῶνδ᾽ ἀντὶ χάριν.. δοῖεν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.650)]; νῆσον ἀντὶ χρημάτων παρέλαβον for money paid, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.59; ἀντ᾽ ἀργυρίου ἀλλάξασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 371d; ἀμείβειν τι ἀντί τινος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.17, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 646, 651; ἀντὶ ποίας εὐεργεσία; 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.40, etc.; τί δ᾽ ἐστὶν ἀνθ᾽ οὗ..; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 237; ὄνειδος ἀνθ᾽ ὅτου [prev. author] “OC” 967)]; δοίην ἀντ᾽ ἀνιῶν ἀνίας grief for grief, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 344; ἀντ᾽ ἀγαθῶν ἀγαθοῖσι βρύοις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 966)]:—hence ἀνθ᾽ ὧν wherefore, [NT+5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 31, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 264, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.83, NT.Luke.12.3)]; ἀντὶ τούτου therefore, [NT (NT.Eph.5.31)]; but ἀνθ᾽ ὧν also for ἀντὶ τούτων ὄτι.., because, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1068, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 434)]; ἀντὶ το; wherefore? why? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1021)]; also ἀνθ᾽ ὧν ὅτι ἦτε.. instead of being as you were.., [LXX (LXX.Deu.28.62.)]
A.III.4 for the sake of, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 237a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1110a21)]; with Verbs of entreaty, like{πρός} with genitive, ἀντὶ παίδων ἱκετεύομέν σε[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1326.)]
A.III.5 to mark comparison, ἓν ἀνθ᾽ ἑνός one set against the other, compared with it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 331b, “Lg.” 705b)]; χάριν ἀντὶ χάριτος, i.e. ever-increasing grace, [NT (NT.John.1.16)]; in preference to, ἀφνεὸν βούλεται ἀντ᾽ ἀγαθοῦ[Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 188; ἀντὶ αὐλοῦ καὶ ἀντὶ κιθάρας ὁ ἦχος ἀκούεται 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 71; αἱρεῖσθαί τι ἀντί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.3, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.1, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 9.1)]: even after Comparatives, πλέον ἀντὶ σοῦ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 577; μείζον᾽ ὅστις ἀντὶ τῆς αὑτοῦ πάτρας φίλον νομίζει [prev. author] “Ant.” 182)]; so (especially after a negative) ἄλλος ἀντ᾽ ἐμοῦ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 467, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 444, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 653; δόξαν ἀντὶ τοῦ ζῆν ἠγαπηκώς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 42.)]
B POSITION: ἀντί rarely follows its case, as in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.650, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1277, “Ig” 5(1).1119 (Geronthrae, 4th c.BC), “Anthologia Graeca” 7.715 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus))]; but the Grammars hold that it never suffers anastrophe.
C IN COMPOSITION (joined with other words), it signified,
C.1 over against, opposite, as ἀντιβαίνω, ἀντίπορος.
C.2 against, in opposition to, as ἀντιλέγω, ἀντίβιος.
C.3 one against another, mutually, as ἀντιδεξιόομαι.
C.4 in return, as ἀντιβοηθέω.
C.5 instead of, as ἀντιβασιλεύς, ἀνθύπατος.
C.6 equal to, like, as ἀντίθεος, ἀντίπαις, ἀντίδουλος.
C.7 corresponding, counter, as ἀντίφορτος, ἀντίτυπος.