Definition

to contradict or dispute

Etymology

from G473 (ἀντί) and G611 (ἀποκρίνομαι);

Word family

• ἀντί antí
• ἀποκρίνομαι apokrínomai

How the KJV renders it

• answer again
• reply against

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.