G500 — ἀντίχριστος (antichristos)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: G500
Original: ἀντίχριστος
Transliteration: antichristos
Pronunciation: an-tee'-khris-tos
Part of Speech: Masculine noun
Components: G473 ἀντί (anti, "opposite, instead of") + G5547 Χριστός (Christos, "anointed, Messiah")
Occurrences: 5 tokens in 4 unique verses (NT only)
Books: 2 (1 John, 2 John)
First Occurrence: 1 John 2:18 — "ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists"
Hapax Legomenon: No

Lexicon Definition¶

Compound of G473 (ἀντί, "opposite/instead of") and G5547 (Χριστός, "Christ/Messiah"). An opponent of the Messiah — one who stands against or in place of Christ. The ἀντί prefix carries dual force: both opposition to Christ and substitution for Christ.

Note: G500 is absent from the Strong's lexicon table in the local database; definition reconstructed from component parts and NT usage.

Louw-Nida Semantic Domain¶

Domain: 53.009 — Roles and Functions (Religious Activities)
Gloss: antichrist
Other words in subdomain: Χριστός (G5547, Christ/Messiah), Μεσσίας (G3323, Messiah), ψευδόχριστος (G5580, false Christ), ψευδοπροφήτης (G5578, false prophet), ψευδαπόστολος (G5570, false apostle), προφήτης (G4396, prophet), ἀπόστολος (G652, apostle), ἱερεύς (G2409, priest), ἀρχιερεύς (G749, chief priest), ἐπίσκοπος (G1985, overseer)

UBS Semantic Domains: - [053] Religious Activities

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Count	%
antichrist	3	60%
antichrists	1	20%
of antichrist	1	20%

No other Strong's number shares the translation "antichrist" — G500 is the exclusive source.

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
1 John	4	3.8
2 John	1	7.7

Exclusively Johannine. Found only in 1 John and 2 John — never in the Gospels, Paul, Hebrews, or Revelation. Concentrated entirely in the Johannine epistles, making it a distinctive vocabulary item of the elder John's pastoral letters.

Morphological Distribution¶

Form	Parsing	Verses
ἀντίχριστος	Nom Sg M	1 John 2:18, 2:22, 2 John 1:7
ἀντίχριστοι	Nom Pl M	1 John 2:18
ἀντιχρίστου	Gen Sg M	1 John 4:3

Three singular, one plural, one genitive. The singular denotes a specific expected figure; the plural denotes present-tense manifestations already active.

Semantic Categories¶

1. The Expected Eschatological Figure¶

1 John 2:18a — "ye have heard that antichrist shall come" — a singular figure associated with "the last time" (ἐσχάτη ὥρα); something the audience had been taught to expect
1 John 4:3 — "this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come" — repeats the tradition of an expected coming figure

2. Present-Tense Manifestations (Plural)¶

1 John 2:18b — "even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time" — multiple current persons embody the antichrist principle; their appearance signals eschatological timing
2 John 1:7 — "many deceivers are entered into the world... This is a deceiver and an antichrist" — the label applies to contemporaries who deny the incarnation

3. Christological Denial as Defining Mark¶

1 John 2:22 — "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son" — the specific criterion: denying Jesus as Messiah and denying the Father-Son relationship
1 John 4:3 — "every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh... this is that spirit of antichrist" — denying the incarnation is the diagnostic marker

Common Collocations¶

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
Χριστός (Christos)	G5547	3x	"denieth that Jesus is the Christ... he is antichrist" — paired in christological denial
Ἰησοῦς (Iesous)	G2424	3x	"Jesus Christ is come in the flesh" — the incarnation claim antichrist denies
ἔρχομαι (erchomai)	G2064	3x	"antichrist shall come" / "is come in the flesh" — dual use: antichrist's arrival and Christ's incarnation
ὁμολογέω (homologeo)	G3670	2x	"confesseth not" — negated confession as the antichrist diagnostic
σάρξ (sarx)	G4561	2x	"come in the flesh" — the incarnation reality being denied
κόσμος (kosmos)	G2889	2x	"entered into the world" / "in the world" — the sphere of antichrist activity
ψεύστης (pseustes)	G5583	1x	"who is a liar but..." — the liar label directly precedes the antichrist identification
ἀρνέομαι (arneomai)	G720	1x	"denieth the Father and the Son" — the specific denial attributed to antichrist

Word Family / Components¶

G473 ἀντί (anti) — preposition: opposite, instead of, in exchange for
G5547 Χριστός (Christos) — the anointed one, Messiah — G5547-christos.md

Synonyms¶

No close lexical synonyms were identified by search_relationships.py; the false-Christ / false-prophet domain neighbors below remain the nearest parallels.

Antonyms¶

No direct antonyms were identified by search_relationships.py.

Domain Neighbors (Louw-Nida 53.009)¶

Word	Strong's	Occurrences	Primary Translation(s)	Key Difference
Χριστός	G5547	529	Christ	The legitimate Messiah; antichristos opposes/replaces him
Μεσσίας	G3323	2	Messias	Hebrew/Aramaic title for the same role Christos fills
ψευδόχριστος	G5580	2	false Christs	Imposters claiming to be Christ; antichristos opposes Christ
ψευδοπροφήτης	G5578	11	false prophet(s)	Counterfeit prophets; antichristos counterfeits Christ specifically
ψευδαπόστολος	G5570	1	false apostles	Counterfeit apostles; parallel pseudo- compound but different role

Easily Confused Words¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Concept	Key Difference
ψευδόχριστος (pseudochristos)	G5580	Both counterfeit Christ-figures	pseudochristos = imposters claiming to be Christ (Matt 24:24); antichristos = those who deny Christ (1 John 2:22). Different mechanism: impersonation vs. denial.
ψευδοπροφήτης (pseudoprophetes)	G5578	Both false religious figures	pseudoprophetes = false prophets; antichristos = opponents of Christ himself. Different target role.
πλάνος (planos)	G4108	Both involve deception	planos = generic "deceiver/impostor" (2 John 1:7 pairs them); antichristos is a specific christological category.

Hebrew Source¶

No Hebrew source — ἀντίχριστος is a NT coinage with no LXX precedent. The concept of an eschatological opponent appears in the Hebrew scriptures through other vocabulary (e.g., Daniel's "little horn," the "man of sin" concept), but this specific Greek compound is original to the Johannine epistles.