Gainsay:
gan-sa, gan'-sa (anteipon, antilego, "to say or speak against"): Occurs as anteipon, "not.... able to withstand or to gainsay" (Lu 21:15); as antilego, "a disobedient and gainsaying people" (Ro 10:21); #/APC 2Esdras 5:29, contradicebant; #/APC Judith 8:28, anthistemi; #/APC Judith 12:14, antero; Additions to Esther 9:13, antitasso; #/APC 1Macc 14:44, anteipon.
Gainsayer, antilego (Tit 1:9, "exhort and convince (the Revised Version (British and American) "convict") the gainsayers").
Gainsaying, antilogia (Jude 1:11, "the gain-saying of Korah"); antilogia is Septuagint for meribhah (Nu 20:13); anantirrhetos, "without contradiction" (Ac 10:29, "without gainsaying").
The Revised Version (British and American) has "gainsaid" for "spoken against" (Ac 19:36); "not gainsaying" for "not answering again" (Tit 2:9); "gainsaying" for "contradiction" Heb 12:3).
Written by W. L. Walker
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