Antilogia means “dispute” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H485 — alummah (“sheaf”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G485 ἀντιλογία (antilogia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. antilogia (an-tee-log-ee'-ah) n. 1. dispute, strife [from a derivative of G483] It has 23 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include contradiction, strife, and gainsaying. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
antilogia (an-tee-log-ee'-ah) n. 1. dispute, strife [from a derivative of G483] KJV: contradiction, gainsaying, strife Root(s): G483
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G485. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
dispute
Usage: ἀντιλογία, -ας ἡ (ἀντιλέγω), [in LXX chiefly for רִיב ;] gain-saying, strife (the latter sense being found in π.; see MM, VGT, see word; cf. Field, Notes, 106): Heb.6:16 7:7 12:3, Ju 11.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render antilogia, 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 and New Testament. 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 G485 (ἀντιλογία) appears 20 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
19 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For whenever there is a dispute among them, and they come to me, I give judgment upon each, and I teach them the ordinances of God and his law.
This is the water of Strife, because the children of Israel spoke insolently before the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
because ye transgressed my commandment in the wilderness of Zin, when the congregation resisted and refused to sanctify me; ye sanctified me not at the water before them. This is the water of Strife in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G485.
For whenever there is a dispute among them, and they come to me, I give judgment upon each, and I teach them the ordinances of God and his law.
This is the water of Strife, because the children of Israel spoke insolently before the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
because ye transgressed my commandment in the wilderness of Zin, when the congregation resisted and refused to sanctify me; ye sanctified me not at the water before them. This is the water of Strife in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
How shall I alone be able to bear your labor, and your burden, and your gainsayings?
And if a matter shall be too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities;
then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.
And the priests the Levites shall come, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by him, and to bless in his name, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be decided.
And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and the judges judge, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked:
Because ye disobeyed my word among the children of Israel, at the waters of strife of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not among the sons of Israel.
And to Levi he said, Give to Levi his manifestations, And his truth to the holy man, Whom they tempted in the temptation; They reviled him at the water of strife.
And Absalom said, O that one would make me a judge in the land; then every man who had a dispute or a cause would come to me, and I would judge him!
Deliver me from the gainsayings of the people: Thou shalt make me head of the Gentiles: A people whom I knew not served me,
Thou wilt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the vexation of man: Thou wilt screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: For I have seen iniquity and gainsaying in the city.
Thou hast made us a strife to our neighbors; And our enemies have mocked at us.
Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause.
They provoked him also at the water of Strife, And Moses was hurt for their sakes;
But the Lord will send out against him an unmerciful messenger.
A silent man quells strifes, And determines between great powers.
For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G485, grouped by book.
Antilogia (Strong's G485) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dispute". antilogia (an-tee-log-ee'-ah) n. 1. dispute, strife [from a derivative of G483]
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's G485 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G485 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as contradiction, strife, and gainsaying. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 19 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G485, with linked reader references where each row is available.