ἔναντι, adverb (ἐν and ἀντί, properly, in that part of space which is opposite), before: as a preposition followed by a genitive (Buttmann, 319 (273)); ἔναντι τοῦ Θεοῦ, ιΐδεΘδ μΔτΐπΕι, before God, i. e. in the temple, Luk_1:8 (Tr marginal reading ἐναντίον); in the judgment of God, Act_8:21 G L T Tr WH; (ἔναντι Φαραώ, Act_7:10 Tdf.; cf. Buttmann, 180 (156)). (Very often in the Sept., and in the Palestin. Apocrypha of the O. T.;. but nowhere in secular authors)

ἔναντι enanti 2x also an improper prep, over against, in the presence of, Luk_1:8 ; Act_8:21

† ἔν -αντι , adv. , a κοινή word ( MM , Exp., xii), before; as prep ., c . gen .: Luk_1:8 , Act_7:10 ( WH , ἐναντίον ), Act_8:21 .†

ἔναντι [page 211] That ἔναντι with the gen., as in the phrase ἔναντι τοῦ θεοῦ ( Act_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) ὲ̣ν̣αντι 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 .

ἔναντι ( e)/n-anti adverb )"in the presence of", c. gen., NTest.

ἔν-αντι adv., a κοινή word (MM, Exp., xii), before; as prep., with genitive: Luk.1:8, Act.7:10 (WH, ἐναντίον), Act.8:21.† (AS)