ἀνθύπατος
proconsul
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (20%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (20%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 1 time (20%)
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (20%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G446 appears — 5 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 5 verses
- Acts 13:7 ἀνθυπάτῳ n dat sg masc who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
- Acts 13:8 ἀνθύπατον n acc sg masc But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith.
- Acts 13:12 ἀνθύπατος n nom sg masc Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
- Acts 18:12 ἀνθυπάτου n gen sg masc But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
- Acts 19:38 ἀνθύπατοί n nom pl masc If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun ανθυπατος centers on the idea of “proconsul.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. Acts dominates its distribution — 5 of 5 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Acts 13:7. Related forms include αντι, ανθιστημι and ανθομολογεομαι. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G446 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 5 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
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 5 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 100%
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: Deputy 2×
- American Standard Version: Proconsul 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Proconsul 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Proconsul 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G446 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G446 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G446 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G446 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 1 sense 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.
- the emperor Augustus divided the Roman provinces into senatorial and imperial. The former were governed by proconsuls…
Word origin
Derived from αντι (antí) (G473) — against.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G446 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀνθυπάτου anthypátou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Acts 18:12 | 1 |
| ἀνθυπάτῳ anthypátō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 13:7 | 1 |
| ἀνθύπατοί anthýpatoí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 19:38 | 1 |
| ἀνθύπατον anthýpaton | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 13:8 | 1 |
| ἀνθύπατος anthýpatos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 13:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G446, 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
- ανθιστημι anthístēmi G436 to resist
- ανθομολογεομαι anthomologéomai G437 to acknowledge
- ανταγωνιζομαι antagōnízomai G464 to struggle
- ανταλλαγμα antállagma G465 exchange
- ανταναπληροω antanaplēróō G466 to fill up
- ανταποδιδωμι antapodídōmi G467 to repay
- ανταποκρινομαι antapokrínomai G470 to contradict
- αντεπω antépō G471 to speak against
- αντεχομαι antéchomai G472 to withstand
- αντιβαλλω antibállō G474 to throw back
- αντιδιατιθεμαι antidiatíthemai G475 to oppose
- αντιδικος antídikos G476 opponent
- αντιθεσις antíthesis G477 opposition
- αντικαθιστημι antikathístēmi G478 to place opposite
- αντικαλεω antikaléō G479 to invite in turn
- αντικειμαι antíkeimai G480 to oppose
- αντικρυ antikrý G481 opposite
- αντιλαμβανομαι antilambánomai G482 to take hold
- αντιλεγω antilégō G483 to contradict
- αντιλοιδορεω antiloidoréō G486 to revile back
- αντιλυτρον antílytron G487 ransom
- αντιμετρεω antimetréō G488 to repay
- αντιμισθια antimisthía G489 reward
- αντιπαρερχομαι antiparérchomai G492 to pass by
+7 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
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 36 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
