Word Summary
katenanti: over against, opposite
Original Word: κατέναντιTransliteration: katenanti
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-en'-an-tee)
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: over against, opposite
Meaning: over against, opposite
Strong's Concordance
before, over against, opposite
From kata and enanti; directly opposite -- before, over against.
see GREEK kata
see GREEK enanti
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2713: κατέναντικατέναντι, adverb; not found in secular authors (
Winers Grammar, 102 (97)); in the
Sept. mostly for
נֶגֶד,
לְנֶגֶד,
לִפְנֵי (see
ἔναντι and
ἀπέναντι); properly,
over against, opposite, before: followed by the genitive (
Buttmann, 319 (273); cf.
Winer's Grammar, § 54,6),
Mark 11:2;
Mark 12:41 (
Tr text
WH marginal reading
ἀπέναντι);
Mark 13:3, and
L T Tr WIt in
Matthew 21:2;
L Tr WH text also in
Matthew 27:24;
ἡ κατέναντι κώμη, the village opposite,
Luke 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,
Romans 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
2 Corinthians 2:17 and
.