ὑπεναντίος
adversary
‘adversary’ 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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G5227 appears in the Nominative case, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Colossians 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.
The Greek adjective υπεναντιος centers on the idea of “adversary.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. The word gravitates to Colossians (50%), then Hebrews. Debuting at Colossians 2:14, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. 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 G5227 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 →
Most concentrated in
- Colossians 1 verse 50%
- Hebrews 1 verse 50%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%
- Hebrews 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: Adversaries 1×, Contrary 1×
- American Standard Version: Adversaries 1×, Contrary 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Adversaries 1×, Against 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Adversaries 1×, Opposed 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5227 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5227 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5227 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5227 across 2 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.
- opposite to
- opposed to, contrary to, an adversary
Word origin
Derived from υπο (hypó) (G5259) — under.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G5227 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑπεναντίον hypenantíon | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Colossians 2:14 | 1 |
| ὑπεναντίους hypenantíous | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 10:27 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5227, 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
- υπαγω hypágō G5217 to depart
- υπακουω hypakoúō G5219 to listen
- υπανδρος hýpandros G5220 under (married)
- υπανταω hypantáō G5221 to meet
- υπαρχω hypárchō G5225 to be at hand
- υπεικω hypeíkō G5226 to yield
- υπεχω hypéchō G5254 to sustain
- υπηρετης hypērétēs G5257 servant
- υπνος hýpnos G5258 sleep
- υποβαλλω hypobállō G5260 to instigate
- υπογραμμος hypogrammós G5261 example
- υποδεικνυμι hypodeíknymi G5263 to demonstrate
- υποδεχομαι hypodéchomai G5264 to welcome
- υποδεω hypodéō G5265 to bind on
- υποδικος hypódikos G5267 debtor
- υποζυγιον hypozýgion G5268 beast of burden
- υποζωννυμι hypozṓnnymi G5269 to undergird
- υποκατω hypokátō G5270 underneath
- υποκρινομαι hypokrínomai G5271 to pretend
- υπολαμβανω hypolambánō G5274 to welcome
- υποληνιον hypolḗnion G5276 wine pit
- υπομενω hypoménō G5278 to endure
- υπομιμνησκω hypomimnḗskō G5279 to remind
- υπονοεω hyponoéō G5282 to suppose
+15 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 41 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υπεναντιος appears 25 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 24 verses in 13 books.
- 25
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 24
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 22:17 ὑπεναντίος
- Exodus 1:10 ὑπεναντίος
- Leviticus 26:16 ὑπεναντίος
- Numbers 10:9 ὑπεναντίος
- Deuteronomy 32:27 ὑπεναντίος
- Joshua 5:13 ὑπεναντίος
- 2 Chronicles 1:11 ὑπεναντίος
- Esther 8:13 ὑπεναντίος
- Job 13:24 ὑπεναντίος
- Psalms 73:10 ὑπεναντίος
- Isaiah 1:24 ὑπεναντίος
- Lamentations 2:4 ὑπεναντίος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5227) 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.
- Genesis 22:17 ὑπεναντίος that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
- Genesis 24:60 ὑπεναντίος They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
- Exodus 1:10 ὑπεναντίος Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."
- Exodus 15:7 ὑπεναντίος In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you: You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
- Exodus 23:27 ὑπεναντίος I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
- Exodus 32:25 ὑπεναντίος When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),
- Leviticus 26:16 ὑπεναντίος I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
- Numbers 10:9 ὑπεναντίος When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
- Deuteronomy 32:27 ὑπεναντίος Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.
- Joshua 5:13 ὑπεναντίος It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?
- 2 Chronicles 1:11 ὑπεναντίος God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king:
- 2 Chronicles 20:29 ὑπεναντίος The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 26:13 ὑπεναντίος Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
- Esther 8:13 ὑπεναντίος A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
- Job 13:24 ὑπεναντίος Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?
- Job 33:10 ὑπεναντίος Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:
- Psalms 73:10 ὑπεναντίος Therefore their people return to them, And they drink up waters of abundance.
- Isaiah 1:24 ὑπεναντίος Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, The Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, And avenge myself of my enemies;
- Isaiah 26:11 ὑπεναντίος Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see: but they shall see [your] zeal for the people, and be disappointed; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries.
- Isaiah 59:18 ὑπεναντίος According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
- Isaiah 63:18 ὑπεναντίος Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
- Isaiah 64:1 ὑπεναντίος Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,
- Lamentations 2:4 ὑπεναντίος He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.
- Nahum 1:2 ὑπεναντίος Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5227) 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.
