Antikeimai means “lie opposite” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H480 — alelay (“woe”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G480 ἀντίκειμαι (antikeimai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. antikeimai (an-tik'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie opposite, i.e. be adverse to 2. (figuratively) repugnant to It has 21 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include contrary and adversary. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
antikeimai (an-tik'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie opposite, i.e. be adverse to 2. (figuratively) repugnant to [from G473 and G2749] KJV: adversary, be contrary, oppose Root(s): G473, G2749
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G480. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
be an opponent
Usage: ἀντί-κειμαι [in LXX for אָיַב, צוּר, שָׂטַן, etc. ;] __1. to lie opposite to. __2. to oppose, withstand, resist: with dative, Luk.13:17 21:15, Gal.5:17, 1Ti.1:10; as participial subst. (ὁ) ἀντικείμενος, 1Co.16:9, Php.1:28, 2Th.2:4, 1Ti.5:14 (Cremer, 746).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render antikeimai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G480 (ἀντίκειμαι) appears 15 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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8 indexed usages in New Testament.
And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
10 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
If ye will indeed hear my voice, and if thou wilt do all the things I shall charge thee with, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations, for the whole earth is mine; and ye shall be to me a royal priesthood, and a holy nation: these words shall ye speak to the children of Israel, If ye shall indeed hear my voice, and do all the things I shall tell thee, I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.
And Toi sent Joram his son to King David, to ask him of his welfare, and to congratulate him on his fighting against Hadadezer and smiting him, for he was an enemy to Hadadezer: and in his hands were vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass.
wherein he charged them to use their own laws in every city, and to help each other, and to treat their adversaries, and those who attacked them, as they pleased,
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazara, and Beth-zur, and the tower, out of the which he took all uncleanness, neither was there any that resisted him.
and fell down at the foot of the altar, and besought him to be merciful to them, and to be an enemy to their enemies, and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law declareth.
For know ye, that should we conceive any evil design against, or in any manner aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our opposite, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Fare ye well.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G480.
If ye will indeed hear my voice, and if thou wilt do all the things I shall charge thee with, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations, for the whole earth is mine; and ye shall be to me a royal priesthood, and a holy nation: these words shall ye speak to the children of Israel, If ye shall indeed hear my voice, and do all the things I shall tell thee, I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.
And Toi sent Joram his son to King David, to ask him of his welfare, and to congratulate him on his fighting against Hadadezer and smiting him, for he was an enemy to Hadadezer: and in his hands were vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass.
wherein he charged them to use their own laws in every city, and to help each other, and to treat their adversaries, and those who attacked them, as they pleased,
In that day the adversaries of the Jews perished: for no one resisted, through fear of them.
Wilt thou be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? Or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?
Behold, all thine adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as if they were not: and all thine opponents shall perish.
All that are opposed to him shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall walk in shame: ye isles, keep a feast to me.
Wherefore these things are against thee; who shall sympathize with thee in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort thee?
A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord rendering recompense to his adversaries.
And the Lord showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and the Devil stood on his right hand to resist him. And the Lord said to the Devil,
And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
and gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazara, and Beth-zur, and the tower, out of the which he took all uncleanness, neither was there any that resisted him.
and fell down at the foot of the altar, and besought him to be merciful to them, and to be an enemy to their enemies, and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law declareth.
For know ye, that should we conceive any evil design against, or in any manner aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our opposite, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Fare ye well.
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Antikeimai (Strong's G480) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lie opposite". antikeimai (an-tik'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie opposite, i.e. be adverse to 2. (figuratively) repugnant to
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G480 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G480 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as contrary and adversary. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 10 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G480, with linked reader references where each row is available.