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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Ἀνταποκρίνομαι (Strong'S #470 — Verb — antapokrinomai — an-tap-ok-ree'-nom-ahee )

is translated "repliest against" in  Romans 9:20 (anti, "against," apokrinomai, "to answer"); in   Luke 14:6 , "answer again." See Answer , B, No. 2.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.

(2): ( v. i.) To answer a defendant's plea.

(3): ( v. i.) Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.

(4): ( v. t.) To return for an answer.

(5): ( v. i.) That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.