ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΟΝΤΑ, ἀντιλεγοντα
ANTILEGONTA, antilegonta
Sounds Like: an-tee-LEH-gon-tah
Translations: contradicting, gainsaying, speaking against, resisting, those who contradict, those who gainsay
From the root: ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle derived from the verb 'ἀντιλέγω' (antilegō), meaning 'to speak against' or 'to contradict'. It is a compound word formed from 'ἀντί' (anti), meaning 'against' or 'opposite', and 'λέγω' (legō), meaning 'to speak' or 'to say'. As a participle, it functions like an adjective or adverb, describing someone or something that is in the act of contradicting or gainsaying. It can be used to describe people who are disobedient or rebellious.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G0483 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:266
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 12:4
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 4 — 8:268
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Isaiah — 65:2
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Romans — 10:21
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΝΤΕΙΠΑΤΕ — contradict, speak against, gainsay, oppose
- ἈΝΤΕΙΠΕΝ — spoke against, contradicted, gainsaid, opposed, answered back
- ἈΝΤΕΙΠΗ — contradict, gainsay, speak against, oppose, resist
- ἈΝΤΕΙΠΟΝΤΩΝ — of those who spoke against, of those who contradicted, of those who opposed
- ἈΝΤΕΙΠΩΝ — speaking against, gainsaying, objecting, contradicting, one who speaks against, one who objects
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓ — to speak against, to contradict, to gainsay, to oppose, to resist, to deny
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΕ — contradict, speak against, gainsay, object, refuse
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΕΙ — he speaks against, he contradicts, he gainsays, he opposes
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΕΙΝ — to speak against, to contradict, to gainsay, to oppose, to dispute
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΕΤΑΙ — it is spoken against, it is contradicted, it is gainsaid
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΕΤΕ — you contradict, you speak against, you gainsay, you resist
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΟΙΕΝ — they might contradict, they might speak against, they might gainsay, they might object
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΟΜΕΝΟΝ — spoken against, gainsaid, contradicted, a thing spoken against, a thing contradicted
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΟΜΕΝΟΣ — contradicted, gainsaid, spoken against, opposed
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΟΝΤΕΣ — gainsaying, contradicting, speaking against, opposing, resisting
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΟΝΤΩΝ — of those who contradict, of those who speak against, of those who gainsay, of those who dispute, of those who oppose
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΩ — speak against, contradict, gainsay, oppose, refuse
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΓΩΝ — gainsaying, contradicting, speaking against, objecting, one who gainsays, one who contradicts
- ἈΝΤΙΛΕΞΕΙ — to contradict, to speak against, to gainsay, to resist, to oppose
- ἈΝΤΙΛΟΓΕΙΝ — to contradict, to speak against, to gainsay, to dispute, to object
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