Word Summary
antilytron: a ransom
Original Word: ἀντίλυτρονTransliteration: antilytron
Phonetic Spelling: (an-til'-oo-tron)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a ransom
Meaning: a ransom
Strong's Concordance
ransom.
From anti and lutron; a redemption-price -- ransom.
see GREEK anti
see GREEK lutron
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 487: ἀντίλυτρονἀντίλυτρον,
ἀντιλυτρου,
τό,
what is given in exchange for another as the price of his redemption, ransom:
1 Timothy 2:6. (An uncertain translator in
Psalm 48:9 (); the Orphica lith. 587; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 25).)