2001 Translation

ENANTION, enantion

Sounds Like: eh-NAN-tee-on

Translations: opposite, contrary, hostile, in the presence of, before, against, an opposite thing

From the root: ἘΝΑΝΤΙΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Adverb, Preposition

Explanation: This word can function as an adjective, an adverb, or a preposition. As an adjective, it describes something as being opposite or contrary. As an adverb, it means 'opposite' or 'over against'. When used as a preposition, it typically takes the genitive case and means 'in the presence of', 'before', or 'against'. It denotes a position or action in opposition to or in front of something or someone.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G1727 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 27:3, 101:1

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:255

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 16:3, 16:7

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 4:43
• Book 4 — 8:292
• Book 5 — 2:169
• Book 11 — 6:271
• Book 15 — 11:393
• Book 16 — 10:344
• Book 18 — 8:279

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 18:18
• Book Five — 8:15
• Book Seven — 8:67

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 49:1, 50:1
• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:3
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 13:3, 13:5, 16:1, 24:4, 50:4, 56:7, 56:8, 56:20, 114:2

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 11:7

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 6:8, 6:11, 6:13, 7:1, 10:9, 12:19, 13:9, 13:13, 16:4, 16:5, 16:6, 17:1, 17:18, 18:3, 18:22, 19:13, 19:14, 19:19, 19:27, 20:15, 21:11, 21:12, 23:11, 23:12, 23:13, 23:18, 24:12, 24:40, 27:7, 27:12, 27:20, 28:8, 30:27, 30:30, 30:40, 30:41, 31:32, 31:37, 32:5, 33:10, 33:14, 33:15, 34:10, 34:11, 34:18, 34:21, 35:21, 38:7, 38:10, 39:4, 39:9, 39:21, 40:9, 41:37, 41:46, 42:24, 43:9, 43:14, 43:15, 43:33, 44:14, 44:18, 44:32, 47:2, 47:6, 47:7, 47:15, 47:18, 47:19, 47:25, 47:29, 48:15, 50:4
• Exodus — 3:21, 4:21, 4:30, 5:21, 6:30, 7:9, 7:10, 7:20, 8:20, 8:26, 9:8, 9:10, 9:11, 9:13, 10:3, 10:16, 11:3, 11:10, 12:36, 13:22, 15:26, 16:9, 16:33, 16:34, 17:6, 18:12, 19:11, 24:17, 25:29, 27:21, 28:26, 28:31, 29:11, 33:13, 33:19, 34:24, 34:28, 40:5, 40:32
• Leviticus — 1:3, 3:1, 3:2, 4:7, 13:5, 25:23, 26:7, 26:8, 26:17, 26:40, 27:8
• Numbers — 1:53, 3:6, 7:3, 9:6, 11:11, 11:20, 14:5, 14:27, 19:5, 20:12, 20:27, 22:32, 25:6, 27:19, 27:22, 33:3, 36:6
• Deuteronomy — 1:23, 3:23, 4:6, 4:10, 4:25, 6:18, 6:25, 9:16, 9:17, 9:18, 9:25, 10:11, 12:7, 12:12, 12:18, 12:25, 12:28, 13:16, 13:18, 14:25, 15:18, 16:11, 16:16, 17:2, 18:7, 18:13, 20:18, 22:17, 24:1, 24:4, 24:13, 25:2, 25:3, 26:13, 27:7, 28:25, 28:31, 29:10, 29:15, 31:11, 31:29
• Joshua — 4:13, 4:14, 5:13, 6:7, 6:8, 6:13, 6:26, 7:6, 7:20, 11:6, 13:4, 13:28, 17:4, 18:4, 19:51, 20:3, 22:16, 22:27, 22:29, 22:31
• Judges — 3:7
• Ruth — 4:4
• 2 Samuel — 12:11, 12:12, 22:13
• 1 Kings — 11:19, 22:53
• 2 Kings — 15:25, 19:14
• 1 Chronicles — 2:3, 4:40, 6:32, 11:3, 13:8, 16:1, 16:6, 16:37, 16:39, 17:24, 17:27, 19:3, 19:10, 21:7, 21:23, 22:8, 22:18, 23:13, 24:2, 24:31, 29:15, 29:22, 29:25
• 2 Chronicles — 1:2, 6:14, 6:16, 6:19, 6:24, 7:6, 7:17, 7:19, 10:6, 10:8, 12:2, 13:15, 14:12, 14:13, 18:9, 20:9, 21:6, 22:4, 23:17, 25:8, 25:14, 26:19, 28:14, 29:6, 29:11, 29:19, 29:23, 30:4, 31:20, 33:2, 33:6, 33:23, 34:2, 34:18, 34:24, 34:27, 34:31, 36:5
• Ezra (Alpha) — 4:58, 8:4
• Ezra (Beta) — 9:15
• Judith — 1:11, 5:21, 6:1, 7:23, 7:25, 8:11, 8:22, 10:14, 10:16, 11:20
• Tobit — 3:3, 11:17
• 1 Maccabees — 3:18, 4:18, 5:63, 6:60, 10:60, 11:24, 11:26, 11:51
• Psalms — 17:9, 30:20, 33:1, 37:10, 38:2, 49:3, 51:11, 68:20, 72:16, 76:3, 77:12, 79:3, 84:14, 87:2, 88:37, 94:6, 96:3, 97:2, 100:7, 101:1, 105:46, 114:9, 115:6, 115:9, 118:46, 118:168, 137:1, 141:3
• Psalms of Solomon — 8:8
• Proverbs — 8:7
• Job — 1:9, 1:22, 2:1, 2:10, 4:17, 8:4, 9:4, 11:4, 13:3, 13:15, 13:16, 15:15, 15:25, 15:26, 18:3, 19:15, 22:26, 25:5, 31:28, 32:1, 32:2, 34:26, 34:37, 35:14
• Wisdom — 7:9, 11:22
• Sirach — 17:15, 17:19, 30:6, 39:20, 43:3, 46:6
• Isaiah — 37:14, 40:10, 41:2, 43:4, 49:4, 49:5, 53:2, 53:7, 59:12, 61:11, 65:3, 65:12, 66:4
• Jeremiah — 1:17, 2:22, 7:30, 8:14, 12:3, 14:7, 14:20, 15:9, 18:10, 18:23, 19:7, 25:17, 47:4, 47:10
• Letter of Jeremiah — 1:1, 1:31
• Baruch — 1:5, 1:12, 2:28, 3:2, 3:4, 3:7
• Ezekiel — 28:17, 28:18, 33:31, 38:23, 43:11, 43:24, 44:3, 44:11, 46:3, 46:9
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 1:18, 3:38, 3:99, 6:10, 9:20, 10:12, 10:16
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 1:9, 2:31, 3:99, 4:30, 6:5, 6:6, 6:22, 9:7, 9:20, 10:12, 10:13, 11:16
• Amos — 3:10
• Enoch — 27:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 1:6, 20:26, 24:19
• Acts — 8:32, 28:17

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΝΑΝΤΙΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἘΝΑΝΤΙΟΙ — opposite, opposing, hostile, adversaries, enemies
• ἘΝΑΝΤΙΟΣ — opposite, contrary, adverse, an opposite, a contrary, an adverse
• ἘΝΑΝΤΙΟΥ — of an opponent, of an enemy, of an adversary, of one who is opposite, of one who is contrary
• ΤἈΝΑΝΤΙΑ — the opposite things, the adversaries, the opponents
• ΤἈΝΑΝΤΙΩΤΑΤΑ — the most opposite, the most contrary, the most hostile

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