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Suzanna wrote a while ago: “The antonym of hypotasso is antitasso”

antitasso is a compund of “align” and “against”

If hypotasso is it’s antonym, then it should be a compound of “align” and “by” or “with”. But it is exclusively deconstructed as “align” and “under”. What gives?

Well, I looked at my handy dandy blueletterbible.org lexicon and what did I find?

hypo means “under” OR “by” and is translated “under”, “BY”, and “WITH” amongst others. So, “under” is not necessarily the only possibility and the other definitions seem to preclude the idea of authority.

It makes much more sense in Ephesians 5:21 to say “aligning yourselves one with another” than it does “aligning yourselves one under another”. (“align with” works in many verses, even those speaking about government – align with the governing authorities, i.e. don’t be an anarchist.) Isn’t it just possible that Paul, who does not even have a military context on the radar here, is applying a much more “side by side” meaning to hypotasso?