Antilego means “dispute” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H483 — illem (“speechless”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G483 ἀντίλεγω (antilego) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. antilego (an-til'-eg-o) v. 1. to dispute, refuse [from G473 and G3004] It has 17 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include against, again, deny, speaketh, and contradicting. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
antilego (an-til'-eg-o) v. 1. to dispute, refuse [from G473 and G3004] KJV: answer again, contradict, deny, gainsay(-er), speak against Root(s): G473, G3004
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to dispute
Usage: ἀντι-λέγω [in LXX: Hos.4:4 (רִיב hi.), Isa.50:5 (סוּג ni.) Isa.22:22 65:2, Sir.4:25, 3Ma.2:28, 4Ma.4:7 4Mac 8:2 * ;] cοntradict, oppose, resist (see Field, Notes, 106; MM, VGT, see word); absol.: Act.28:19, Rom.10:21, Tit.1:9 2:9; with dative, Jhn.19:12, Act.13:45; with accusative and inf., Luk.20:27 T; pass., Luk.2:34, Act.28:22.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render antilego, 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 New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old 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 G483 (ἀντίλεγω) appears 8 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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9 indexed usages in New Testament.
And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him: and I will give him the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.
and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.
I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
That entrance to their own temple was to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice; that all the Jews were to be registered among the common people; that those who resisted were to be forcibly seized and put to death;
And the nation, indignant at this proclamation, and replying to the effect that it was extremely unfair that those who had committed deposits to the sacred treasury should be deprived of them, resisted as well as they could.
The tyrant having given this charge, seven brethren were brought into his presence, along with their aged mother, handsome, and modest, and wellborn, and altogether comely.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G483.
And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him: and I will give him the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.
and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.
I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.
that neither anyone may plead, nor anyone reprove another: but my people are as a priest spoken against.
And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
That entrance to their own temple was to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice; that all the Jews were to be registered among the common people; that those who resisted were to be forcibly seized and put to death;
And the nation, indignant at this proclamation, and replying to the effect that it was extremely unfair that those who had committed deposits to the sacred treasury should be deprived of them, resisted as well as they could.
The tyrant having given this charge, seven brethren were brought into his presence, along with their aged mother, handsome, and modest, and wellborn, and altogether comely.
In nowise speak against the truth; But be abashed of the error of thine ignorance.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G483, grouped by book.
Antilego (Strong's G483) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dispute". antilego (an-til'-eg-o) v. 1. to dispute, refuse [from G473 and G3004]
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's G483 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G483 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 against, again, deny, speaketh, contradicting, and gainsaying. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G483, with linked reader references where each row is available.