ἀντιλογία
contradiction
‘contradiction’ 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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G485 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 3 distinct verses. 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.
Hebrews
- Hebrews 6:16 ἀντιλογίας n gen sg fem For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
- Hebrews 7:7 ἀντιλογίας n gen sg fem But without any dispute the less is blessed by the better.
- Hebrews 12:3 ἀντιλογίαν n acc sg fem For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.
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, αντιλογια (antilogía) means “contradiction.” A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Its uses cluster heavily in Hebrews (75% of all occurrences). It first appears in Hebrews 6:16. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G485 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 3 verses · 75%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 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: Contradiction 2×
- American Standard Version: Dispute 2×, Gainsaying 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Argument 1×, Hostility 1×, Indisputably 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Dispute 1×, Disputes 1×, Of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G485 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 G485 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G485 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G485 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- gainsaying, contradiction
- opposition, rebellion
Word origin
Derived from αντιλεγω (antilégō) (G483) — to contradict.
From a derivative of G483 ; dispute disobedience : - contradiction gainsaying strife.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G485 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀντιλογίας antilogías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 6:16 | 2 |
| ἀντιλογίαν antilogían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 12:3 | 1 |
| ἀντιλογίᾳ antilogía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Jude 1:11 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αντιλογια appears 20 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 19 verses in 6 books.
- 20
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 19
- 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 18:16 ἀντιλογία
- Numbers 20:13 ἀντιλογία
- Deuteronomy 1:12 ἀντιλογία
- 2 Samuel 15:4 ἀντιλογία
- Psalms 17:44 ἀντιλογία
- Proverbs 17:11 ἀντιλογία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G485) 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 18:16 ἀντιλογία When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."
- Numbers 20:13 ἀντιλογία These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
- Numbers 27:14 ἀντιλογία because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
- Deuteronomy 1:12 ἀντιλογία How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
- Deuteronomy 17:8 ἀντιλογία If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;
- Deuteronomy 19:17 ἀντιλογία then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
- Deuteronomy 21:5 ἀντιλογία The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.
- Deuteronomy 25:1 ἀντιλογία If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
- Deuteronomy 32:51 ἀντιλογία because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 33:8 ἀντιλογία Of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, Whom you did prove at Massah, With whom you did strive at the waters of Meribah;
- 2 Samuel 15:4 ἀντιλογία Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!
- Psalms 17:44 ἀντιλογία
- Psalms 30:21 ἀντιλογία
- Psalms 54:10 ἀντιλογία
- Psalms 79:7 ἀντιλογία For they have devoured Jacob, And destroyed his homeland.
- Psalms 80:8 ἀντιλογία You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
- Psalms 105:32 ἀντιλογία He gave them hail for rain, With lightning in their land.
- Proverbs 17:11 ἀντιλογία An evil man seeks only rebellion; Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
- Proverbs 18:18 ἀντιλογία The lot settles disputes, And keeps strong ones apart.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G485) 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.
