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Strong's #1725 - ἔναντι
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ἔναντι,
Adv. in the presence of, c. gen., LXX Genesis 12:19, al., IG 7.2225.52 (Thisbe, ii B.C.), Luke 1:8, GDI 2072.26 (Delph.); cf. ἴναντι.
† ἔν -αντι ,
adv.,
a κοινή word (MM, Exp., xii),
before; as prep., c. gen.: Luke 1:8, Acts 7:10 (WH, ἐναντίον ), Acts 8:21.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
That ἔναντι with the gen., as in the phrase ἔναντι τοῦ θεοῦ (Acts 8:21), can no longer be confined to bibl. Greek (Grimm) is proved by its occurrence in the translation of a Roman senator’s ";Consultum,"; Syll 300.52 (BC. 170) περὶ τούτου τοῦ πράγ [ματο ]ς ὕστερον ἔναντι Γαΐου Λοκρετίου βουλεύσασθαι ἔδοξεν : cf. also for imperial times P Oxy III. 495.5 (A.D. 181–9) ε ̣̀ν ̣αντι Πέλα Wackernagel Hellenistica, pp. 1 ff. shows that the word came into the Κοινή about B.C. 300 from Cretan, Delphian, or a like dialect, helped by the fact that the Attic ἐναντίον had this sense : see further s.v. ἀπέναντι.
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Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
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