Topic
Gainsay
14 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 20:13ISBE
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
- Esther 9:13ISBE
Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
- Judith 8:28ISBE
Then said Ozias to her, All that thou hast spoken hast thou spoken with a good heart, and there is none that may gainsay thy words.
- Judith 12:14ISBE
Then said Judith unto him, Who am I now, that I should gainsay my lord? surely whatsoever pleaseth him I will do speedily, and it shall be my joy unto the day of my death.
- 1 Maccabees 14:44ISBE
Also that it should be lawful for none of the people or priests to break any of these things, or to gainsay his words, or to gather an assembly in the country without him, or to be clothed in purple, or wear a buckle of gold;
- 2 Esdras 5:29ISBE
And they which did gainsay thy promises, and believed not thy covenants, have trodden them down.
- Luke 21:15ISBE
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
- Acts 10:29ISBE
Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
- Acts 19:36ISBE
Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
- Romans 10:21ISBE
But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
- Titus 1:9ISBE
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
- Titus 2:9ISBE
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
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- Hebrews 12:3 ISBE
- Jude 1:11 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 14 references
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).
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.