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ἀντί

against

‘against’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G473 Strong's Greek
antí Transliteration
/an-tee'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 22 appearances

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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 preposition αντι centers on the idea of “against.” Its English rendering has broadened — “for” classically, “exchange for” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 20 verses in 13 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 2:22. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 20-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
for
Modern gloss
against
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G473 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 →

20
distinct verses
The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
13 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 13 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:22
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:22.
1 Peter 3:9
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Peter 3:9.
#586
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 586 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 10 · 50%
  • Acts 1 · 5%
  • Pauline Epistles 5 · 25%
  • General Epistles 4 · 20%
  • 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 20 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 10 verses · 50%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 25%
  • Pauline corpus 5 verses · 25%
  • Hebrews 2 verses · 10%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 10%
  • Johannine 1 verse · 5%

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: For 15×, Because 4×
  • American Standard Version: For 15×, Because 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: For 9×, Because 4×, With 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Exchange for 7×, Because 4×, For 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G473 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “For” 15×
  • “Because” 4×

Plus 3 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 G473 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “For” 15×
  • “Because” 3×

Plus 2 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 G473 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “For” 9×
  • “Because” 4×
  • “With” 2×

Plus 5 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 G473 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Exchange for” 7×
  • “Because” 4×
  • “For” 3×

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. over against, opposite to, before
  2. for, instead of, in place of (something)

Word origin

Origin: a primary particle

Part of speech: Preposition TDNT: 07:12,6

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 substitution correspondence etc.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G473 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀντὶ antì Preposition Matthew 2:22 17
ἀνθ’ anth Preposition Luke 1:20 5

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G473, 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.

Derived from this word

+8 more words derive from G473 (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 αντι appears 403 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 348 verses in 32 books.

403
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
348
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
32 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 32 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G473) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 348. 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 (G473) 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.

Reading settings

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