| Lexical Summary apantēsis: a meetingOriginal Word: ἀπάντησις Transliteration: apantēsis Phonetic Spelling: (ap-an'-tay-sis) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a meeting Meaning: a meeting Strong's Concordancemeeting, friendly encounter From apantao; a (friendly) encounter -- meet. see GREEK apantao Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 529: ἀπάντησις ἀπάντησις, ἀπαντεως, ἡ (ἀπαντάω), a meeting; εἰς ἀπάντησιν τίνος or τίνι to meet one: Matthew 25:1 R G; Matthew 25:6; Acts 28:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:17. (Polybius 5, 26, 8; Diodorus 18, 59; very often in the Sept. equivalent to לִקְרַאת (cf. Winer's Grammar, 30).) | 



