ἐναντίον
opposite
‘opposite’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G1726 appears — 4 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 1:6 ἐναντίον adv They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- Luke 20:26 ἐναντίον adv They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.
- Luke 24:19 ἐναντίον adv He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
εναντιον — transliterated enantíon — is a Greek preposition carrying the sense “opposite.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Luke. Debuting at Luke 1:6, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 4-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1726 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 100%
- Gospels 3 verses · 75%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Before 4×
- American Standard Version: Before 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Before 3×, Sight of 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Front of 3×, Before 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1726 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1726 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1726 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1726 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- over against, opposite
- metaph.
Word origin
Derived from εναντιος (enantíos) (G1727) — opposite.
Neuter of G1727 ; (adverb) in the presence ( view ) of : - before in the presence of.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εναντιον appears 384 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 362 verses in 20 books.
- 384
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 362
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 20 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 20 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:8 ἐναντίον
- Exodus 3:21 ἐναντίον
- Leviticus 1:3 ἐναντίον
- Numbers 1:53 ἐναντίον
- Deuteronomy 1:23 ἐναντίον
- Joshua 4:13 ἐναντίον
- Judges 3:7 ἐναντίον
- 1 Kings 11:19 ἐναντίον
- 2 Kings 15:25 ἐναντίον
- 1 Chronicles 2:3 ἐναντίον
- 2 Chronicles 1:2 ἐναντίον
- Ezra 9:15 ἐναντίον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1726) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 362. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:8 ἐναντίον But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.
- Genesis 6:11 ἐναντίον The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
- Genesis 6:13 ἐναντίον God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Genesis 7:1 ἐναντίον Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ark, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Genesis 10:9 ἐναντίον He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."
- Genesis 12:19 ἐναντίον Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
- Genesis 13:9 ἐναντίον Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
- Genesis 13:13 ἐναντίον Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
- Genesis 16:4 ἐναντίον He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
- Genesis 16:5 ἐναντίον Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."
- Genesis 17:1 ἐναντίον When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
- Genesis 17:18 ἐναντίον Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"
- Genesis 18:3 ἐναντίον and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.
- Genesis 18:22 ἐναντίον The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
- Genesis 19:13 ἐναντίον for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is grown great before Yahweh. Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."
- Genesis 19:14 ἐναντίον Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
- Genesis 19:19 ἐναντίον See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
- Genesis 19:27 ἐναντίον Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
- Genesis 20:15 ἐναντίον Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."
- Genesis 21:11 ἐναντίον The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.
- Genesis 21:12 ἐναντίον God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.
- Genesis 23:11 ἐναντίον "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."
- Genesis 23:12 ἐναντίον Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.
- Genesis 23:18 ἐναντίον to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
- Genesis 24:12 ἐναντίον He said, "Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
- Genesis 24:40 ἐναντίον He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.
- Genesis 27:7 ἐναντίον 'Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'
- Genesis 27:12 ἐναντίον What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing."
- Genesis 27:20 ἐναντίον Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."
- Genesis 28:8 ἐναντίον Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.
- Genesis 29:20 ἐναντίον Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
- Genesis 30:27 ἐναντίον Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."
- Genesis 30:30 ἐναντίον For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
- Genesis 30:40 ἐναντίον Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.
- Genesis 30:41 ἐναντίον It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
- Genesis 31:32 ἐναντίον With whoever you find your gods, he shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.
- Genesis 31:37 ἐναντίον Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
- Genesis 32:6 ἐναντίον The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
- Genesis 33:8 ἐναντίον Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
- Genesis 33:10 ἐναντίον Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
- Genesis 33:14 ἐναντίον Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
- Genesis 33:15 ἐναντίον Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
- Genesis 34:10 ἐναντίον You shall dwell with us: and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
- Genesis 34:11 ἐναντίον Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
- Genesis 34:18 ἐναντίον Their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem, Hamor's son.
- Genesis 34:21 ἐναντίον "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For, behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
- Genesis 35:22 ἐναντίον It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
- Genesis 38:7 ἐναντίον Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.
- Genesis 38:10 ἐναντίον The thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he killed him also.
- Genesis 39:4 ἐναντίον Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1726) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
