κατενώπιον
εἰς πέλαγος σπέρµα βαλεῖν καὶ γράµµατα γράψαι ἀµφότερος µόχθος τε κενὸς καὶ πρᾶξις ἄκαρπος → throwing seeds and writing letters at sea are both a vain and fruitless endeavor
English (Strong)
from κατά and ἐνώπιον; directly in front of: before (the presence of), in the sight of.
English (Thayer)
adverb, not met with in secular authors (Winer s Grammar, 102 (97)) see ἐνώπιον), over against, opposite, before the face of, before the presence of, in the sight of, before: followed by the genitive (Buttmann, 319 (273 f); cf. Winer s Grammar, § 54,6);
a. properly, of place, having one as it were before the eyes, before one as witness: τοῦ Θεοῦ, in κατέναντι); before God as Judges , Lightfoot, in the place cited; also Buttmann, 173,180, 188).
Greek Monolingual
(AM κατενώπιον)
επίρρ.
1. κατά πρόσωπο, κατά μέτωπο
2. ενώπιον κάποιου
αρχ.
σύμφωνα με.
Greek Monotonic
κατενώπιον: = το προηγ., σε Καινή Διαθήκη
Russian (Dvoretsky)
κατενώπιον: praep. cum gen. лицом к лицу, против, перед (θεοῦ NT).
