ἀντίκειμαι
to oppose
‘to oppose’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- 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.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G480 appears in the Book of Philippians — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Philippians
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.
At its core, αντικειμαι (antíkeimai) means “to oppose.” Scripture first uses it in Luke 13:17. With 8 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Luke (25% of all occurrences). Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G480 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 2 verses 25%
- 1 Timothy 2 verses 25%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 13%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 75%
- Gospels 2 verses · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 25%
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: Adversaries 4×
- American Standard Version: Adversaries 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Adversaries 2×, Oppose 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Opposing 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G480 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G480 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G480 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear 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 G480 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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.
- to be set over against, opposite to
- to oppose, be adverse to, withstand
Word origin
Derived from αντι (antí) (G473) — against.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G480 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀντικείμενοι antikeímenoi | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 13:17 | 3 |
| ἀντίκειται antíkeitai | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Galatians 5:17 | 2 |
| ἀντικείμενος antikeímenos | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 2 Thessalonians 2:4 | 1 |
| ἀντικειμένων antikeiménōn | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Philippians 1:28 | 1 |
| ἀντικειμένῳ antikeiménō | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Timothy 5:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G480, 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
- 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
- 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.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αντικειμαι appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 6 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 23:22 ἀντικεῖμαι
- 2 Samuel 8:10 ἀντικεῖμαι
- Esther 8:11 ἀντικεῖμαι
- Job 13:25 ἀντικεῖμαι
- Isaiah 41:11 ἀντικεῖμαι
- Zechariah 3:1 ἀντικεῖμαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G480) 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.
- Exodus 23:22 ἀντικεῖμαι But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
- 2 Samuel 8:10 ἀντικεῖμαι then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. [Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
- Esther 8:11 ἀντικεῖμαι in which the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, [their] little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
- Esther 9:2 ἀντικεῖμαι the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them was fallen on all the peoples.
- Job 13:25 ἀντικεῖμαι Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
- Isaiah 41:11 ἀντικεῖμαι Behold, all those who are incensed against you shall be disappointed and confounded: those who strive with you shall be as nothing, and shall perish.
- Isaiah 45:16 ἀντικεῖμαι They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.
- Isaiah 51:19 ἀντικεῖμαι These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
- Isaiah 66:6 ἀντικεῖμαι A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies.
- Zechariah 3:1 ἀντικεῖμαι He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G480) 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.
