ἀνταποκρίνομαι
to contradict
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive deponent
- Passive in form but active in meaning.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Infinitive 1 time (50%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G470 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Luke 1 verse
Romans 1 verse
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.
ανταποκρινομαι (antapokrínomai) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to contradict.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Luke dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. It first appears in Luke 14:6. Sharing its root, it stands alongside αντι, ανθιστημι and ανθομολογεομαι. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G470 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 1 verse · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%
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: Again 1×, Answer 1×, Repliest against 1×
- American Standard Version: Answer again 1×, Repliest against 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Answer 1×, Talk back 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Answering against 1×, Give an answer 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G470 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G470 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G470 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G470 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- to contradict in reply, to answer by contradiction, reply against
Word origin
Derived from αντι (antí) (G473) — against.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G470 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀνταποκριθῆναι antapokrithē̂nai | Verb, Aorist, Passive deponent, Infinitive | Luke 14:6 | 1 |
| ἀνταποκρινόμενος antapokrinómenos | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 9:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G470, 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
- ανθυπατος anthýpatos G446 proconsul
- ανταγωνιζομαι antagōnízomai G464 to struggle
- ανταλλαγμα antállagma G465 exchange
- ανταναπληροω antanaplēróō G466 to fill up
- ανταποδιδωμι antapodídōmi G467 to repay
- 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).
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.
