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preposition

Greekκατέναντι (katenanti)
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katenanti

Strong’sG2713

opposite, in front of

stem katenanti-8 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 booksnever changes form

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

† κατέναντι,

adv.,

[in LXX chiefly for נֶגֶד(לְ), לִפְנֵי, etc.;]

over against, opposite, before: ἡ, κ. κώμη, Lk 19:30; as prep., c. gen., Mt 21:2 27:24 (ἀπ-, WH, mg.), Mk 11:2 12:41 (ἀπ-, WH, mg.) 13:3; metaph., before, seq. θεοῦ, Ro 4:17, II Co 2:17 12:19.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2713 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkat-en'-an-tee

directly opposite

Fromfrom G2596 and G1725;

King Jamesbefore, over against.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Included with: κατ-έναντα,
adverb over against, opposite, with genitive, Refs 5th c.BC+:—also κατ-έναντι LXX; πύλη ἡ κ.LXX+NT+2nd c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

ahead of3×before2×opposite2×in the presence of1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

8 occurrences, every one of them listed

katenanti8×

Matthew 21:2… autoi; Poreuovōr eis tan kōman tan katenanti vu, kai eutheōs heuriskavi onan dorēntan …… to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and at once you will …

Mark 11:2… autoi; Hupagavōr eis tan kōman tan katenanti vu, kai euthuos eisporeuorōntois eis autan …… to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as soon as you …

Mark 12:41Kai kathizarantos katenanti teu gazofulakieu theōrate pōs tos ochlos …As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd …

Mark 13:3… autou eis tem Orem taiu Elaiaiu katenanti teu hiereu eperōtate auton kata idian …… sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and …

Romans 4:17… hoti Patron polleiu ethneiu tithamē sin, katenanti hou pisteuata theou tou zōopoiarōntou toin …… many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the …

2 Corinthians 2:17… ek eilikrineiau, alla hōs ek theou katenanti theou en Christo lalanō.… the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent …

2 Corinthians 12:19Palai dokavō hoti vi apologonō? katenanti theou en Christo lalanō. teim de …… a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of …

Luke 19:30legarōntos; Hupagavōr eis tan katenanti kōman, en ha eisporeuorōntois heuriskavi pōlon …saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it …