κατέναντι

ὅσον ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἐφεωρᾶτο τῆς νήσου → as much of the island as was in view from the temple

German (Pape)

[Seite 1395] dasselbe, LXX; bei Plat. Charm. 155 d haben die meisten codd. κατέναντα.

adverb; not found in secular authors (Winer s 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), Tr text WH marginal reading ἀπέναντι); L T Tr WIt in L Tr WH text also in ἡ κατέναντι κώμη, the village opposite, belove one i. e. he being judge (see ἐνώπιον (especially 2e. and 1c.)): τοῦ Θεοῦ, 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; Winer s Grammar, 164 (155))); or, he being witness (in the sight of): τοῦ Θεοῦ, L T Tr WH in 2 Corinthians 12:19>.