ἈΝΤΙΠΑ, ἀντιπα
ANTIPA, antipa
Sounds Like: an-TI-pa
Translations: opponent, adversary, rival
From the root: ἈΝΤΙΠΑΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word appears to be a truncated or misspelled form of the Koine Greek word ἈΝΤΙΠΑΛΟΣ (antipálos), meaning 'opponent' or 'adversary'. It refers to someone who stands against another, whether in a contest, a legal dispute, or a conflict. It is a compound word formed from ἈΝΤΙ (anti), meaning 'against', and ΠΑΛΗ (palē), meaning 'wrestling' or 'contest'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0476 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Unknown: Yes
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 6:15
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΤΙΠΑΛΟΣ.
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.
- ἈΝΤΙΠΑΛΟΝ — opponent, an opponent, adversary, an adversary, rival, a rival
- ἈΝΤΙΠΑΛΟΣ — opponent, adversary, rival, an opponent, an adversary, a rival
- ἈΝΤΙΠΑΛΩ — (to) an opponent, (to) an adversary, (to) a rival
- ἈΝΤΙΠΑΛΩΝ — of an opponent, of opponents, of a rival, of rivals, of an adversary, of adversaries
This concordance database is in beta
That means it's an unfinished preview of what we're building and is still being refined and corrected. It was initially generated from Google Gemini 2.5. It will be edited and corrected over time, with additional information added as we go.
It is your responsibility to double-check anything important.
Please report any errors or important missing information.