ἀντί-θεσις, εως, ἡ,
1. opposition, Pl. Sph. 257e, 258b; ἀντίθεσιν ἔχειν πρός τι correspond to.., Arist. HA 503a25; resistance, AP 12.200 (Strat.).
2. in Logic, opposition of propositions, in pl., Arist. Int. 19b20, Top. 113b15, Metaph. 1054a23. substitution of the contradictory, as ’not-man’ for ’man’, ἡ σὺν -θέσει ἀντιστροφή, conversion by negation, e.g. ’man is an animal ∴ what is not an animal cannot be a man’, Anon. in SE 15.23, al.
3. Rhet., antithesis, Isoc. 12.2, Arist. Rh. 1410a22; in forensic oratory, counter-proposition, Hermog. Id. 1.4, al.
4. Gramm., change or transposition of a letter, Hdn.Gr. 2.945, Diom. 1.442K.
ἀντίθεσις antithesis 1x
pr. opposition; hence, a question proposed for dispute, disputation, [1Ti 6:20]
G477 — ἀντίθεσις
((τίθημι, from Plato down), ἀντιθεσεως, ἡ;
a. opposition.
b. that which is opposed: [1Ti 6:20], (ἀντιθέσεις τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως, the inventions of false knowledge, either mutually oppugnant, or opposed to true Christian doctrine).