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ἀντίκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίκειμαι

Structure: ἀντι (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Etym.: used as pass. of a)ntiti/qhmi

Sense

  1. to be set over against, lie opposite, by way of opposition

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἀπέστειλε Θοοὺ Ἰεδδουρὰν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ πρὸσ βασιλέα Δαυὶδ ἐρωτῆσαι αὐτὸν τὰ εἰσ εἰρήνην καὶ εὐλογῆσαι αὐτὸν ὑπὲρ οὗ ἐπολέμησε τὸν Ἀδρααζὰρ καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτόν, ὅτι ἀντικείμενοσ ἦν τῷ Ἀδρααζάρ, καὶ ἐν ταῖσ χερσὶν αὐτοῦ ἦσαν σκεύη ἀργυρᾶ καὶ σκεύη χρυσᾶ καὶ σκεύη χαλκᾶ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 8:10)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο ἀντικείμενοσ τῷ Ἰσραὴλ πάσασ τὰσ ἡμέρασ Σαλωμών. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 11:43)
  • καὶ συνήγαγεν αἰχμαλωσίαν πολλὴν καὶ ἐκυρίευσε Γαζάρων καὶ Βαιθσούρων καὶ τῆσ ἄκρασ. καὶ ἐξῇρε τὰσ ἀκαθαρσίασ ἐξ αὐτῆσ, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ ἀντικείμενοσ αὐτῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 14:7)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐλλείπων ὁ ἀντικείμενοσ, ὁ δὲ μέσοσ σώφρων. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 90:3)
  • ὁ ἀντικείμενοσ καὶ ὑπεραιρόμενοσ ἐπὶ πάντα λεγόμενον θεὸν ἢ σέβασμα, ὥστε αὐτὸν εἰσ τὸν ναὸν τοῦ θεοῦ καθίξαι, ἀποδεικνύντα ἑαυτὸν ὅτι ἔστιν θεόσ ‐ . (PROS QESSALONIKEIS B, chapter 1 20:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be set over against

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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