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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀντι- (anti-) + Χριστός (Khristós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /anˈti.xris.tos/ → /anˈdi.xris.tos/
Noun
ἀντίχριστος • (antíkhristos) m (genitive ἀντιχρίστου); second declension
- (Koine, Christianity) antichrist
circa 100 C.E., New Testament,
First Epistle of John 2:18:
- Παιδία, ἐσχάτη ὥρα ἐστίν, καὶ καθὼς ἠκούσατε ὅτι ἀντίχριστος ἔρχεται, καὶ νῦν ἀντίχριστοι πολλοὶ γεγόνασιν ὅθεν γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἐσχάτη ὥρα ἐστίν.
- Paidía, eskhátē hṓra estín, kaì kathṑs ēkoúsate hóti antíkhristos érkhetai, kaì nûn antíkhristoi polloì gegónasin hóthen ginṓskomen hóti eskhátē hṓra estín.
- 1611 translation by King James Version
- Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- ἀντίχριστος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀντίχριστος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “ἀντίχριστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G500 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible