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ἀντίτυποςStrong’s G0499

antitupos

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Antitupos is the Greek word usually translated “copies” and “prefigures”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:”
Hebrews 9:24 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “copies” and “prefigures”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • copies 1
  • prefigures 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Hebrews 1
  • 1 Peter 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

ἀντίτυπος antitupos · representation

ἀντί-τυπος, -ον (see: τύπος), [in LXX: Est.3:13 A * ;] 1. active striking back; metaphorically, resisting, adverse. 2. Pass. struck back; metaphorically, corres­ponding to (MM, VGT, see word); (a) as impression of a seal or copy of an archetype (τύπος) (RV, Like in pattern), Heb.9:24; (b) as the reality (of which τύπος is the copy or adumbration) (RV, after a true likeness), 1Pe.3:21 (Cramer, 357).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “representation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

REPRESENTA'TION, noun

  1. The act of representing, describing or showing.
  2. That which exhibits by resemblance; image, likeness, picture or statue; as representations of God.
  3. Any exhibition of the form or operations of a thing by something resembling it.
  4. Exhibition, as of a play on the stage.
All definitions
  1. Exhibition of a character in theatrical performance.
  2. Verbal description; statement of arguments or facts in narration, oratory, debate, petition, admonition, etc.; as the representation of a historian, of a witness or an advocate.
  3. The business of acting as a substitute for another; as the representation of a nation in a legislative body.
  4. Representatives, as a collective body.
  5. Public exhibition.
  6. The standing in the place of another, as an heir, or in the right of taking by inheritance.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.