Lexical 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. |