Word Summary
antapokrinomai: to answer again
Original Word: ἀνταποκρίνομαιTransliteration: antapokrinomai
Phonetic Spelling: (an-tap-ok-ree'-nom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to answer again
Meaning: to answer again
Strong's Concordance
answer again, reply against.
From anti and apokrinomai; to contradict or dispute -- answer again, reply against.
see GREEK anti
see GREEK apokrinomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 470: ἀνταποκρίνομαιἀνταποκρίνομαι; 1 aorist passive
ἀνταπεκριθην (see
ἀποκρίνω, ii.);
to contradict in reply, to answer by contradicting, reply against:
τίνι πρός τί,
Luke 14:6; (the
Sept. Judges 5:29 (
Alex.);
Job 16:8;
Job 32:12;
Aesop fab. 172 edition de Furia (p. 353, Coray edition)). Hence, equivalent to
to altercate, dispute: with the dative of person
Romans 9:20. (In a mathematical sense,
to correspond to each other or be parallel, in
Nicomachus Gerasenus, arithm. 1, 8, 11, p. 77 a. (p. 17, Hoche edition).) Cf.
Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part iii., p. 17.