ἀντιπρόσωπος
facing, opposite
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἀντιπρόσωπος appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 6 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 15:10 ἀντιπρόσωπος So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite to each other, but the birds he did not divide.
- Exodus 26:5 ἀντιπρόσωπος Fifty loops shall you make for one curtain, and fifty loops shall you make on the part of the curtain answering to the coupling of the second, opposite each other, corresponding to each other at each point.
- 2 Samuel 10:9 ἀντιπρόσωπος And Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him from that which was opposed in front and from behind, and he chose out some of all the young men of Israel, and they set themselves in array against Syria.
- 1 Chronicles 19:10 ἀντιπρόσωπος And Joab saw that they were fronting him to fight against him before and behind, and he chose some out of all the young men of Israel, and they set themselves in array against the Syrian.
About this word
About this word
ἀντιπρόσωπος (antiprósōpos), “facing, opposite,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 6 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
