2001 Translation

ANT', ant'

Sounds Like: ANT

Translations: instead of, in place of, for, in return for, on behalf of

From the root: ἈΝΤΙ

Part of Speech: Preposition

Explanation: This word is an elided form of the preposition ἈΝΤΙ (anti), indicated by the coronis (the apostrophe-like mark) at the end. It is used before words that begin with a vowel. It typically means 'instead of' or 'in place of' and always takes the genitive case. It can also mean 'for' or 'in return for', indicating an exchange or substitution.

Inflection: Elided form of the preposition ἈΝΤΙ. Always takes the genitive case. Does not inflect for gender or number.

Strong’s number: G0473 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 10:256
• Book 5 — 1:18, 2:153
• Book 6 — 11:231
• Book 8 — 3:70, 13:352, 14:380
• Book 10 — 9:184
• Book 14 — 16:469
• Book 15 — 1:9, 2:32, 10:376
• Book 16 — 2:46
• Book 19 — 8:342
• Book 20 — 1:16

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 17:2

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 48:250

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 2:21, 36:33, 36:34, 36:35, 36:36, 36:37, 36:38, 36:39
• Exodus — 29:30
• Leviticus — 6:22
• Deuteronomy — 2:12, 2:21, 2:22, 2:23, 10:6
• 2 Samuel — 10:1, 16:8
• 1 Kings — 1:30, 1:35, 2:35, 11:43, 12:24, 14:27, 14:31, 15:8, 15:24, 16:6, 16:10, 16:28, 20:6, 21:24, 22:40, 22:51
• 2 Kings — 3:27, 8:15, 8:24, 10:35, 12:21, 13:24, 14:16, 15:7, 15:10, 15:22, 15:25, 15:30, 15:38, 16:20, 19:37, 20:21, 21:18, 21:24, 21:26, 24:6, 24:17
• 1 Chronicles — 1:44, 1:45, 1:46, 1:47, 1:50, 1:51, 4:41, 5:22, 19:1, 23:1, 29:28
• 2 Chronicles — 1:8, 9:31, 12:10, 12:16, 14:1, 17:1, 21:1, 22:1, 24:27, 26:23, 27:9, 28:27, 32:33, 33:20, 33:25, 36:8
• Ezra (Alpha) — 1:41
• Esther — 8:12
• Tobit — 1:15, 1:15, 1:21
• 1 Maccabees — 1:1, 3:1, 6:17, 9:30, 13:32, 14:17, 15:31, 16:3
• Proverbs — 11:8
• Ecclesiastes — 4:15
• Job — 28:15, 36:20
• Sirach — 10:14, 10:15
• Isaiah — 37:38
• Jeremiah — 35:13
• Baruch — 3:19
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 4:34

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΝΤΙ.

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.

• ἈΝΘ' — instead of, for, in place of, in return for, because, for which things, in return for which
• ἈΝΤΕ — against, opposite, in front of, instead of, for, in return for
• ἈΝΤΙ — instead of, for, in place of, in return for, opposite to, in exchange for

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