G2713
G2713 — κατέναντι
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
katenanti (kat-en'-an-tee) adv.
1. directly opposite
[from G2596 and G1725]
KJV: before, over against
Root(s): G2596, G1725
TWOT
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KJV Renderings
before, over against
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κατέναντι, adverb; not found in secular authors (Winers Grammar, 102 (97)); in the Sept. mostly for ðÆâÆã, ìÀðÆâÆã, ìÄôÀðÅé (see ἔναντι and ἀπέναντι); properly, over against, opposite, before: followed by the genitive (Buttmann, 319 (273); cf. Winer’s Grammar, § 54,6), Mar 11:2; Mar 12:41 (Tr text WH marginal reading ἀπέναντι); Mar 13:3, and L T Tr WIt in Mat 21:2; L Tr WH text also in Mat 27:24; ἡ κατέναντι κώμη, the village opposite, Luk 19:30. Metaphorically, with the genitive of person, belove one i. e. he being judge (see ἐνώπιον (especially 2 e. and 1 c.)): τοῦ Θεοῦ, Rom 4:17 (which, by a kind of attraction somewhat rare, is to be resolved κατέναντι Θεοῦ, ᾧ ἐπίστευσε, who is the father of us all according to the judgment and appointment of God, whom he believed, the words καθώς ... τέθεικά forming a parenthesis; cf. Fritzsche at the passage; (Buttmann, 287 (247); but others resolve it, κατέναντι τοῦ Θεοῦ κατέναντι οὗ ἐπίστευσε, cf. Meyer (per contra edition Weiss) at the passage; Winers Grammar, 164 (155))); or, he being witness (in the sight of): τοῦ Θεοῦ, L T Tr WH in 2Co 2:17 and .
Englishman's Greek Concordance
κατέναντι (before)
Mark 11:2
- KJV: And saith unto them Go your way into the village over against you and as soon as ye be entered into it ye shall find a colt tied whereon never man sat loose him and bring
- GK: και λέγει αυτοίς υπάγετε εις την κώμην κατέναντι υμών και ευθέως εισπορευόμενοι εις αυτή ευρήσετε πώλον δεδεμένον εφ΄ ον ουδείς ανθρώπων κεκάθικε λύσαντες αυτόν αγάγετε
Mark 12:41
- KJV: And Jesus sat over against the treasury and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury and many that were rich cast in much
- GK: και καθίσας ο Ιησούς κατέναντι του γαζοφυλακίου εθεώρει πως ο όχλος βάλλει χαλκόν εις το γαζοφυλάκιον και πολλοί πλούσιοι έβαλλον πολλά
Mark 13:3
- KJV: And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately
- GK: και καθημένου αυτού εις το όρος των ελαιών κατέναντι του ιερού επηρώτων αυτόν κατ΄ ιδίαν Πέτρος και Ιάκωβος και Ιωάννης και Ανδρέας
Luke 19:30
- KJV: Saying Go ye into the village over against in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied whereon yet never man sat loose him and bring
- GK: ειπών υπάγετε εις την κατέναντι κώμην εν η εισπορευόμενοι ευρήσετε πώλον δεδεμένον εφ΄ ον ουδείς πώποτε ανθρώπων εκάθισε λύσαντες αυτόν αγάγετε
Romans 4:17
- KJV: As it is written I have made thee a father of many nations before him whom he believed God who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were
- GK: καθώς γέγραπται ότι πατέρα πολλών εθνών τέθεικά σε κατέναντι ου επίστευσε θεού του ζωοποιούντος τους νεκρούς και καλούντος τα μη όντα ως όντα