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In the New Testament, it is used to describe both a spirit of opposition to Christ and specific individuals who embody this opposition. The term is often associated with false teachers and deceivers who deny the true nature of Jesus Christ.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>The concept of the Antichrist has its roots in early Christian eschatology and is linked to the expectation of a future figure who will embody evil and oppose Christ before the end times. In the first century, the early church faced numerous heresies and false teachings, prompting the apostles to warn believers about those who would lead them astray. The term "antichristos" captures the essence of these warnings, emphasizing vigilance against spiritual deception.<div class="vheading2">HELPS Word-studies</div><p class="discovery"><b>500</b> <i>antíxristos</i> (from <a href="/greek/473.htm">473</a> <i>/antí</i>, "opposite to, in place of" and <a href="/greek/5547.htm">5547</a> <i>/Xristós</i>, "Christ") – properly, opposite to Christ; someone acting <i>in place of</i> (<i>against</i>) Christ; "<i>Antichrist</i>."</p><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/discovery.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>from <a href="/greek/473.htm">anti</a> and <a href="/greek/5547.htm">Christos</a><br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>antichrist, (one who opposes Christ)<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>antichrist (4), antichrists (1).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 500: ἀντίχριστος</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">ἀντίχριστος</span></span>, <span class="greek2">ἀντιχρίστου</span>, <span class="greek2">ὁ</span> (<span class="greek2">ἀντί</span> against and <span class="greek2">Χριστός</span>, like <span class="greek2">ἀντίθεος</span> opposing God, in <span class="abbreviation">Philo</span> de somn. l. ii. § 27, etc., Justin, quaest. et resp., p. 463 c. and other Fathers; (see <span class="abbreviation">Sophocles</span> Lexicon, under the word, cf. <span class="abbreviation">Trench</span>, § xxx.)), <span class="accented">the adversary of the Messiah,</span> a most pestilent being, to appear just before the Messiah's advent, concerning whom the Jews had conceived diverse opinions, derived partly from <a href="/interlinear/daniel/11-36.htm">Daniel 11:36</a>ff; <BIBLE/CHAPTER_VERSE:Daniel 7:25; 8:25>, partly from <a href="/interlinear/ezekiel/38.htm">Ezekiel 38</a>; <a href="/interlinear/ezekiel/39.htm">Ezekiel 39</a>. Cf. Eisenmenger, Entdecktes Judenthum, ii. 704ff; Gesenius in Ersch and Gruber's Encycl. iv. 292ff under the word Antichrist; Böhmer, Die Lehre v. Antichrist nach Schneckenburger, in the Jahrbb. f. deutsche Theol. vol. iv., p. 405ff The name <span class="greek2">ὁ</span> <span class="greek2">ἀντίχριστος</span> was formed perhaps by John, the only writer in the N. T. who uses it (five times); he employs it of the corrupt power and influence hostile to Christian interests, especially that which is at work in false teachers who have come from the bosom of the church and are engaged in disseminating error: <a href="/interlinear/1_john/2-18.htm">1 John 2:18</a> (where the meaning is, 'what ye have heard concerning Antichrist, as about to make his appearance just before the return of Christ, is now fulfilled in the many false teachers, most worthy to be called antichrists,' (on the omission of the article cf. <span class="abbreviation">Buttmann</span>, 89 (78))); <a href="/interlinear/1_john/4-3.htm">1 John 4:3</a>; and of the false teachers themselves, <a href="/interlinear/1_john/2-22.htm">1 John 2:22</a>; 2 John 7. In Paul and the Rev. the idea but not the name of Antichrist is found; yet the conception differs from that of John. For Paul teaches that Antichrist will be an individual man (cf. <span class="abbreviation">B. D.</span> as below), of the very worst character (<span class="greek2">τόν</span> <span class="greek2">ἄνθρωπον</span> <span class="greek2">τῆς</span> <span class="greek2">ἁμαρτίας</span> (or, <span class="greek2">ἀνομίας</span>); see <span class="greek2"><span class="lexref">ἁμαρτία</span></span>, 1), instigated by the devil to try to palm himself off as God: <a href="/interlinear/2_thessalonians/2-3.htm">2 Thessalonians 2:3-10</a>. The author of the Apocalypse discovers the power of Antichrist in the sway of imperial Rome, and his person in the Emperor Nero, soon to return from the dead: <a href="/interlinear/revelation/13.htm">Revelation 13</a> and <a href="/interlinear/revelation/17.htm">Revelation 17</a>. (Often in ecclesiastical writings.) (See <span class="abbreviation">B. D.</span> under the word (American edition for additional references), also <span class="abbreviation">B. D.</span> under the article, Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the; Kähler in <span class="abbreviation">Herzog</span> edition 2, i. 446f; Westcott, Epistles of St. John, pp 68, 89.)<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>antichrist. <p>From <a href="/greek/473.htm">anti</a> and <a href="/greek/5547.htm">Christos</a>; an opponent of the Messiah -- antichrist. <p>see GREEK <a href="/greek/473.htm">anti</a> <p>see GREEK <a href="/greek/5547.htm">Christos</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>αντιχριστοι αντίχριστοι ἀντίχριστοι αντιχριστος αντίχριστος ἀντίχριστος αντιχριστου αντιχρίστου ἀντιχρίστου antichristoi antíchristoi antichristos antíchristos antichristou antichrístou<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/1_john/2-18.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">1 John 2:18</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular">N-NMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/1_john/2.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ἠκούσατε ὅτι <b>ἀντίχριστος</b> ἔρχεται καὶ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/1_john/2.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> as you heard <span class="itali">that antichrist</span> is coming,<br><a href="/kjvs/1_john/2.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> that <span class="itali">antichrist</span> shall come,<br><a href="/interlinear/1_john/2-18.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> you heard that <span class="itali">antichrist</span> is coming even<p><b><a href="/text/1_john/2-18.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">1 John 2:18</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural">N-NMP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/1_john/2.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">καὶ νῦν <b>ἀντίχριστοι</b> πολλοὶ γεγόνασιν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/1_john/2.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> many <span class="itali">antichrists</span> have appeared;<br><a href="/kjvs/1_john/2.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> many <span class="itali">antichrists;</span> whereby<br><a href="/interlinear/1_john/2-18.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> even now <span class="itali">antichrists</span> many have arisen<p><b><a href="/text/1_john/2-22.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">1 John 2:22</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular">N-NMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/1_john/2.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ἐστιν ὁ <b>ἀντίχριστος</b> ὁ ἀρνούμενος</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/1_john/2.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> This <span class="itali">is the antichrist,</span> the one who denies<br><a href="/kjvs/1_john/2.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> is <span class="itali">antichrist,</span> that denieth<br><a href="/interlinear/1_john/2-22.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> is the <span class="itali">antichrist</span> who denies<p><b><a href="/text/1_john/4-3.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">1 John 4:3</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular">N-GMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/1_john/4.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">τὸ τοῦ <b>ἀντιχρίστου</b> ὃ ἀκηκόατε</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/1_john/4.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> this <span class="itali">is the [spirit] of the antichrist,</span> of which<br><a href="/kjvs/1_john/4.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> is <span class="itali">that [spirit] of antichrist,</span> whereof<br><a href="/interlinear/1_john/4-3.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> that of the <span class="itali">antichrist</span> [of] which you heard<p><b><a href="/text/2_john/1-7.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">2 John 1:7</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular">N-NMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/2_john/1.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">καὶ ὁ <b>ἀντίχριστος</b> </span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/2_john/1.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> is the deceiver <span class="itali">and the antichrist.</span><br><a href="/kjvs/2_john/1.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> a deceiver and <span class="itali">an antichrist.</span><br><a href="/interlinear/2_john/1-7.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> and the <span class="itali">antichrist</span><p><b><a href="/greek/500.htm">Strong's Greek 500</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_500.htm">5 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/antichristoi_500.htm">ἀντίχριστοι — 1 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/antichristos_500.htm">ἀντίχριστος — 3 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/antichristou_500.htm">ἀντιχρίστου — 1 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="/greek/499.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="499"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="499" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/greek/501.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="501"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="501" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>