ἀπέναντι
apénanti · G561 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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opposite, in front of, before, across from, in the presence of
A position over against an object or other position
ExamplesMatthew 27:61 And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.
Acts 3:16 “And on the basis of faith in His name, it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.
Romans 3:18 “THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES.”
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against
A marker of opposition or hostility, with the implication that something is done in place of something else
ExamplesActs 17:7 and Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 3 words
- נֶגֶד neged · H5048 · before, in front of, opposite
- Both ἀπέναντι (apénanti, G561) ἀπέναντι and נֶגֶד (neged, H5048) נֶגֶד denote spatial opposition and positional orientation, expressing "opposite," "in front of," "before" or "against." The Greek preposition regularly renders the Hebrew noun or preposition in the Septuagint where spatial or confrontational positioning is in view. Both share the core range of being opposite to, in the presence of, or set against something.
- פָּנִים pânîym · H6440 · face, person
- פָּנִים (pânîym, H6440) פָּנִים denotes the concrete noun 'face' with extensive idiomatic uses for spatial/relational position (before, in front of, in the presence of), which Greek ἀπέναντι renders specifically in its prepositional sense 'opposite/before/against' when the Hebrew construction expresses confrontation or spatial opposition.
- נֹכַח nôkach · H5227 · in front of, facing, opposite
- Greek ἀπέναντι and Hebrew נֹכַח both denote spatial opposition or directness ('opposite,' 'before,' 'against'), representing genuine translation equivalents across the LXX corpus for the same core positional sense.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Opposite, in front of, before, across from, in the presence of83.42
- In Matthew 27:61, “Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite (apénanti) the tomb,” describing their physical position facing the tomb from across the way.
- Against90.35
- In Acts 17:7, the accusers charge that “Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to (apénanti) the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus,” describing conduct set in direct opposition to imperial law.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb, with the genitive (Buttmann, 819 (273)); 1. over against, opposite: τοῦ τάφου, Mt…
1. over against, opposite: τοῦ τάφου, Mt 27:61; (τοῦ γαζοφυλακίου, Mk 12:41 Tr text WH marginal reading).
2. in sight of, before: Mt 21:2 R G; (here L Tr WH text κατέναντι); Acts 3:16; Rom 3:18 (Ps. 35(36):).
3. in opposition to, against: τῶν δογμάτων Καίσαρος, Acts 17:7. (Common in the Sept. and Apocrypha; Polybius 1, 86, 3.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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