Greek preposition · G2713
κατέναντι
katenantikat-en'-an-tee
before
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: katénanti
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2713is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2713
directly opposite
The King James renders it: before, over against.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
katenanti is rendered "before". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 21:2saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt beside her. Untie them and bring them to Me.
The first use
saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt beside her. Untie them and bring them to Me.
Matthew 21:2κατέναντι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eight uses are in Mark.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- before4
- opposite2
- ahead1
- in front1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κατεργάζομαι | katergazomai | to workout/produce | Uses22 |
| κατέχω | katecho | to hold back/fast | Uses17 |
| κατέρχομαι | katerchomai | to descend | Uses16 |
| κατεσθίω | katesthio | to devour | Uses14 |
| κατευθύνω | kateuthyno | to guide | Uses3 |
| κατενώπιον | katenopion | before | Uses3 |
| κατεξουσιάζω | katexousiazo | to rule | Uses2 |
| κατείδωλος | kateidolos | idolatrous | Uses1 |
| κατεφίστημι | katephistemi | to attack | Uses1 |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- κατέναντι8
The grammar of each form
- preposition7PREP
- adverb1ADV
Matthew
one use
saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt beside her. Untie them and bring them to Me.
- κατέναντιkatenantiprepositiontagged: in front
Mark
three uses
and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.
- κατέναντιkatenantiprepositiontagged: before
As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts.
- κατέναντιkatenantiprepositiontagged: opposite
While Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked Him privately,
- κατέναντιkatenantiprepositiontagged: opposite
Luke
one use
saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.
- κατέναντιkatenantiadverbtagged: ahead
Romans
one use
As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
- κατέναντιkatenantiprepositiontagged: before
2 Corinthians
two uses
For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.
- κατέναντιkatenantiprepositiontagged: before
Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up.
- κατέναντιkatenantiprepositiontagged: before
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.