antioken

Swedish

Alternative forms

Noun

antioken c

  1. (historical) Antiochene, Antiochian
    • 1986, Ignace de la Potteriet, translated by Anders Piltz, “Att läsa Skriften "i Anden" [Reading Scripture "in the Spirit"]”, in Signum[1], number 9, archived from the original on 7 October 2025:
      [Men] antiokenernas intresse [var] uteslutande för bokstaven och bibelns historiska mening.
      But the Antiochenes' interest lay solely in the literal and historical meaning of the Bible.
    • 1995, Per Beskow, Jan Arvid Hellström, Nils-Henrik Nilsson, Den kristna kyrkan: Från apostlarna till renässansen [The Christian Church: From the Apostles to the Renaissance], Natur & Kultur, →ISBN, page 58:
      När antiokenerna talade om "natur" (fysis), menade de enheter med särskilda karakteristiska drag.
      When the Antiochenes spoke of "nature" (physis), they meant entities with distinct characteristic features.
    • 2004, Alf Tergel, Från Jesus till Moder Teresa: kristenhetens historia [From Jesus to Mother Teresa: The History of Christendom], Verbum, →ISBN, page 119:
      Antiokenerna […] var inte redo att godta en doktrin som sammanblandade gudomligt med mänskligt så, att det senare förlorade sin egenart.
      The Antiochenes were not willing to accept a doctrine that mixed the divine with the human in such a way that the latter lost its distinct character.

Declension

Declension of antioken
nominative genitive
singular indefinite antioken antiokens
definite antiokenen antiokenens
plural indefinite antiokener antiokeners
definite antiokenerna antiokenernas