ἀντίχριστος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀντι- (anti-) +‎ Χριστός (Khristós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /anˈti.xris.tos/ → /anˈdi.xris.tos/

• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /anˈti.kʰris.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /anˈti.xris.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /anˈti.xris.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /anˈdi.xris.tos/

Noun

ἀντίχριστος • (antíkhristos) m (genitive ἀντιχρίστου); second declension

1. (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

Second declension of ὁ ἀντίχριστος; τοῦ ἀντιχρίστου (Koine)

Case / #	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀντίχριστος ho antíkhristos	οἱ ἀντίχριστοι hoi antíkhristoi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀντιχρίστου toû antikhrístou	τῶν ἀντιχρίστων tôn antikhrístōn
Dative	τῷ ἀντιχρίστῳ tôi antikhrístōi	τοῖς ἀντιχρίστοις toîs antikhrístois
Accusative	τὸν ἀντίχριστον tòn antíkhriston	τοὺς ἀντιχρίστους toùs antikhrístous
Vocative	ἀντίχριστε antíkhriste	ἀντίχριστοι antíkhristoi

Descendants

• → Latin: antichristus, Antichristus
  • → Old English: Antecrist
    • Middle English: Antecrist, Anticrist, auntecrist, onticrist, Anntecrist, antcrist, ancrist; Anntecrist
      • English: Antichrist
      • Scots: Antichrist
  • → Dutch: antichrist
  • → Finnish: antikristus, Antikristus
  • → German: Antichrist
  • → Old Polish: Antykryst, Ancykryst
    • Masurian: ancÿchrist
    • Polish: Antychryst
    • Silesian: jancykryst, ancykryst, lancykryst
• → Russian: анти́христ (antíxrist), Анти́христ (Antíxrist)
  • → Kazakh: Антихрист (Antixrist)
• → Macedonian: Антихрист (Antihrist)

Further reading

• ἀντίχριστος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀντίχριστος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (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