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ἀνθίστημι

to resist

‘to resist’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G436 Strong's Greek
anthístēmi Transliteration
/anth-is'-tay-mee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 14 appearances

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About this entry

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At its core, ανθιστημι (anthístēmi) means “to resist.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 5:39. It turns up in 12 verses across 9 books, an uncommon footprint. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. It shares a root with αντι, ανθομολογεομαι and ανθυπατος. Dig into 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
resist
Modern gloss
to resist
Strong's 1890 agrees
Strong's 1890 and current Thayer scholarship align on this entry's primary sense — a good signal that the gloss above is unambiguous and stable. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G436 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

12
distinct verses
The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
9 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 5:39
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 5:39.
1 Peter 5:9
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Peter 5:9.
#814
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 2 · 17%
  • Acts 2 · 17%
  • Pauline Epistles 6 · 50%
  • General Epistles 2 · 17%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 6 verses · 50%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 25%
  • Gospels 2 verses · 17%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 17%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Resist 5×, Withstood 3×
  • American Standard Version: Withstand 5×, Withstood 3×, Resist 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Resist 4×, Opposed 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Resist 4×, Opposed 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G436 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Resist” 5×
  • “Withstood” 3×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G436 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Withstand” 5×
  • “Withstood” 3×
  • “Resist” 2×
  • “Withstandeth” 2×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G436 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Resist” 4×
  • “Opposed” 2×

Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G436 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Resist” 4×
  • “Opposed” 2×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to set one's self against, to withstand, resist, oppose
  2. to set against

Word origin

Derived from αντι (antí) (G473) — against.

Part of speech: Verb

From G473 and G2476 ; to stand against that is oppose : - resist withstand.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 9 distinct written forms G436 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀντιστῆναι antistē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 5:39 4
ἀνθέστηκεν anthéstēken Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Romans 9:19 2
ἀντίστητε antístēte Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural James 4:7 2
ἀνθίστανται anthístantai Verb, Present, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 Timothy 3:8 1
ἀνθίστατο anthístato Verb, Imperfect, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 13:8 1
ἀνθεστηκότες anthestēkótes Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Romans 13:2 1
ἀντέστη antéstē Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 Timothy 4:15 1
ἀντέστην antéstēn Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Galatians 2:11 1
ἀντέστησαν antéstēsan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 2 Timothy 3:8 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G436, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

+7 more words share this root (not shown).

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 35 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ανθιστημι appears 46 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 45 verses in 19 books.

46
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
45
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
19 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G436) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G436) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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