ἀντίλεγω
to contradict
‘to contradict’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- 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).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- 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.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 9 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 2 times (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (17%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (17%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 time (8%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (8%)
+1 more form (1 occurrence)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 12 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G483 appears — 11 distinct verses across 5 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 3 verses
- Luke 2:34 ἀντιλεγόμενον pres pass ptcp acc sg neut and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
- Luke 20:27 ἀντιλέγοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.
- Luke 21:15 ἀντειπεῖν aor act inf for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
John 1 verse
Acts 4 verses
- Acts 4:14 ἀντειπεῖν aor act inf Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
- Acts 13:45 ἀντέλεγον ἀντιλέγοντες impf act ind 3pl pres act ptcp nom pl masc But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
- Acts 28:19 ἀντιλεγόντων pres act ptcp gen pl masc But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
- Acts 28:22 ἀντιλέγεται pres pass ind 3sg But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."
Romans 1 verse
Titus 2 verses
- Titus 1:9 ἀντιλέγοντας pres act ptcp acc pl masc holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
- Titus 2:9 ἀντιλέγοντας pres act ptcp acc pl masc Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
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, αντιλεγω (antilégō) means “to contradict.” Scripture first uses it in Luke 2:34. It turns up in 11 verses across 5 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Acts (36%), then Luke and Titus. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G483 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
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 11 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 7 verses · 64%
- Gospels 4 verses · 36%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 27%
- Johannine 1 verse · 9%
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: Spake against 2×
- American Standard Version: Gainsaying 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Contradict 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Is spoken against 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G483 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 G483 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G483 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 G483 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 speak against, gainsay, contradict
- to oppose one's self to one, decline to obey him, declare one's self against him, refuse to have anything to do with him
Word origin
Derived from αντι (antí) (G473) — against.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms G483 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀντειπεῖν anteipeîn | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Luke 21:15 | 2 |
| ἀντιλέγοντας antilégontas | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Titus 1:9 | 2 |
| ἀντιλέγοντες antilégontes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 20:27 | 2 |
| ἀντέλεγον antélegon | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 13:45 | 1 |
| ἀντιλέγει antilégei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | John 19:12 | 1 |
| ἀντιλέγεται antilégetai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 28:22 | 1 |
| ἀντιλέγοντα antilégonta | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 10:21 | 1 |
| ἀντιλεγόμενον antilegómenon | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Luke 2:34 | 1 |
| ἀντιλεγόντων antilegóntōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Acts 28:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G483, 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
- αντικειμαι antíkeimai G480 to oppose
- αντικρυ antikrý G481 opposite
- αντιλαμβανομαι antilambánomai G482 to take hold
- 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.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αντιλεγω appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 2 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Isaiah 22:22 ἀντιλέγω
- Hosea 4:4 ἀντιλέγω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G483) 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.
- Isaiah 22:22 ἀντιλέγω The key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
- Isaiah 50:5 ἀντιλέγω The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.
- Isaiah 65:2 ἀντιλέγω I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
- Hosea 4:4 ἀντιλέγω "Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G483) 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.
