Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἐπὶ τὴν ἀπέναντι τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου κρηπῖδα προσπεσόντεσ, ἠξίουν ἵλεων αὐτοῖσ γενόμενν ἐχθρεῦσαι τοῖσ ἐχθροῖσ αὐτῶν καὶ ἀντικεῖσθαι τοῖσ ἀντικειμένοισ, καθὼσ ὁ νόμοσ διασαφεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 10:26)
  • ΚΑΙ ἔδειξέ μοι Κύριοσ Ἰησοῦν, τὸν ἱερέα τὸν μέγαν, ἑστῶτα πρὸ προσώπου ἀγγέλου Κυρίου, καὶ ὁ διάβολοσ εἱστήκει ἐκ δεξιῶν αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἀντικεῖσθαι αὐτῷ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 3:1)
  • διὸ καὶ τὴν εὔνοιαν ἀμφοτέροισ νομίζομεν ἀντικεῖσθαι, βούλησιν οὖσαν ἀγαθῶν τοῖσ πλησίον· (Plutarch, De invidia et odio, section 1 3:1)
  • "ἀλλά γε τῷ Ε τὸ γνῶθι σαυτόν ἐοίκέ πωσ ἀντικεῖσθαι καὶ τρόπον τινὰ πάλιν συνᾴδειν· (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 2117)
  • ἀντικεῖσθαι κατὰ δύναμιν, οὐχ ὼγ ἕξει στέρησισ· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 2 1:1)

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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