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Greekκατενώπιον (katenōpion)
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katenōpion

Strong’sG2714

before the face of

stem katenōpi-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.

† κατενώπιον

adv.

(= Hom., κατένωπα), [in LXX: Ps 43 (44):15, al.;]

over against, before: c. gen., τ. δόξης, Ju 24; metaph. (cf. κατέναντι, and v. Lft., Col 1:22), τ. θεοῦ, Eph 1:4, Col 1:22.†

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

Strong’s G2714 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkat-en-o'-pee-on

directly in front of

Fromfrom G2596 and G1799;

King Jamesbefore (the presence of), in the sight of.

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
κατένωπα
Refs 2nd c.AD+, κατενῶπα or κατ᾽ ἐνῶπα Refs 3rd c.BC+, over against, right opposite, c.genitive, Refs 8th c.BC+:—alsoκατεν-ενώπιον, τινος LXX+NT+6th c.AD+.
Included with: κατεξᾰγιάζω,
assay, Refs

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.

before3×

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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

katenōpion3×

Ephesians 1:4“before”… kosmou, arō nin hagioin kai amōmoin katenōpion autou en agapa,… of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

Colossians 1:22“before”… vin hagioin kai amōmoin kai anenklētoin katenōpion autou,… to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His …

Jude 1:24“before”… dunorōnto fulassara vin aptaistoin kai stēara katenōpion tau doxau autou amōmoin en agalliasia… who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy —