Word Summary
Antipas: Antipas, a Christian of Pergamum
Original Word: ἈντίπαςTransliteration: Antipas
Phonetic Spelling: (an-tee'-pas)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: Antipas, a Christian of Pergamum
Meaning: Antipas -- a Christian of Pergamum
Strong's Concordance
Antipas.
Contracted for a compound of anti and a derivative of pater; Antipas, a Christian -- Antipas.
see GREEK anti
see GREEK pater
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 493: ἈντιπᾶςἈντιπᾶς (
Tdf. Ἀντειπας, see under the word
εἰ,
ἰ),
Ἀντιπα (cf.
Winers Grammar, § 8, 1; (
Buttmann, 20 (18))),
ὁ,
Antipas (contracted from
Ἀντίπατρος Winer's Grammar, 103 (97)), a Christian of Pergamum who suffered martyrdom, otherwise unknown:
Revelation 2:13. On the absurd interpretations of this name, cf. Düsterd. (Alford, Lee, others) at the passage From Görres in the Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Theol. for 1878, p. 257ff, endeavors to discredit the opinion that he was martyred, but by insufficient arguments.