Strong's Greek: 476. ἀντίδικος (antidikos) -- an opponent, adversary

◄ 476. antidikos ►

Jump to: Lexicon • Helps • Nasec • Thayer's • Strong's

Lexicon

antidikos: an opponent, adversary

Original Word: ἀντίδικος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: antidikos
Phonetic Spelling: (an-tid'-ee-kos)
Short Definition: an opponent, adversary
Definition: an opponent (at law), an adversary.

HELPS word-Studies

476 antídikos (from 473 /antí, "against, off-set" and 1349 /díkē, "justice, a judge") – properly, a prosecuting attorney arguing a case-at-law; an "opponent at law" (TDNT).

476 /antídikos ("an accuser, adversary") brings formal charges, i.e. as they are binding to exact penalty. Satan acts as such an adversary, bringing the "(law)suit" of darkness against believers for their eternal damnation (cf. 1 Pet 5:8). Offsetting this is the perfect sacrifice of Christ (Jn 19:30)!

[476 (antídikos) is "an adversary in a lawsuit," from anti/"against," and dīkē/"a lawsuit," WS, 319.

476 (antidikos) is a technical legal term used in antiquity of an adversary in a courtroom, i.e. someone seeking official (formal, binding) damages.

The papyri (Pl Phdr 237) used 476 (antídikos) of an opponent in a law suit.]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from anti and diké
Definition
an opponent, adversary
NASB Translation
adversary (1), opponent (3), opponent at law (1).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 476: ἀντίδικος

ἀντίδικος, ἀντίδικον (δίκη); as a substantive ὁ ἀντίδικος a. an opponent in a suit at law: Matthew 5:25; Luke 12:58; Luke 18:3 (Xenophon, Plato, often in the Attic orators).

b. universally, an adversavy, enemy (Aesehyl. Ag. 41; Sir. 33:9; 1 Samuel 2:10; Isaiah 41:11, etc.): 1 Peter 5:8 (unless we prefer to regard the devil as here called ἀντίδικος because he accuses men before God).

Strong's

adversary.

From anti and dike; an opponent (in a lawsuit); specially, Satan (as the arch-enemy) -- adversary.

see GREEK anti

see GREEK dike