Word Summary
antallagma: an exchange
Original Word: ἀντάλλαγμαTransliteration: antallagma
Phonetic Spelling: (an-tal'-ag-mah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: an exchange
Meaning: an exchange
Strong's Concordance
in exchange.
From a compound of anti and allasso; an equivalent or ransom -- in exchange.
see GREEK anti
see GREEK allasso
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 465: ἀντάλλαγμαἀντάλλαγμα,
ἀνταλλαγτος,
τό (
ἀντί in place of, in turn, and
ἄλλαγμα see
ἀλλάσσω), "that which is given in place of another thing by way of exchange; what is given either in order to keep or to acquire anything":
Matthew 16:26;
Mark 8:37, where the sense is, 'nothing equals in value the soul's salvation.' Christ transfers a proverbial expression respecting the supreme value of the natural life (
Homer, Iliad 9, 401
οὐ γάρ ἐμοί ψυχῆς ἀνταξιον) to the life eternal. (
Ruth 4:7;
Jeremiah 15:13; Sir. 6:15, etc.;
Euripides, Or. 1157;
Josephus,
b. j. 1, 18, 3.)