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Lexicon :: Strong's G816 - atenizō

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ἀτενίζω
Transliteration
atenizō (Key)
Pronunciation
at-en-id'-zo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From a compound of ἄλφα (G1) (as a particle of union) and teino (to stretch)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἀτενίζω atenízō, at-en-id'-zo; from a compound of G1 (as a particle of union) and τείνω teínō (to stretch); to gaze intently:—behold earnestly (stedfastly), fasten (eyes), look (earnestly, stedfastly, up stedfastly), set eyes.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's G816 in the following manner: look steadfastly (2x), behold steadfastly (2x), fasten (one's) eyes (2x), look earnestly on (1x), look earnestly upon (1x), look up steadfastly (1x), behold earnestly (1x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's G816 in the following manner: look steadfastly (2x), behold steadfastly (2x), fasten (one's) eyes (2x), look earnestly on (1x), look earnestly upon (1x), look up steadfastly (1x), behold earnestly (1x), miscellaneous (4x).
  1. to fix the eyes on, gaze upon

  2. to look into anything

  3. metaph. to fix one's mind on one as an example

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀτενίζω atenízō, at-en-id'-zo; from a compound of G1 (as a particle of union) and τείνω teínō (to stretch); to gaze intently:—behold earnestly (stedfastly), fasten (eyes), look (earnestly, stedfastly, up stedfastly), set eyes.
STRONGS G816:
ἀτενίζω; 1 aorist ἠτένισα; (from ἀτενής stretched, intent, and this from τείνω and α intensive; [yet cf. Winers Grammar, § 16, 4; Buttmann, a. at the end, and under the word Α, α, 3]); to fix the eyes on, gaze upon: with the dative of person, Luke 4:20; Luke 22:56; Acts 3:12; Acts 10:4; Acts 14:9; Acts 23:1; followed by εἰς with an accusative of person, Acts 3:4; Acts 6:15; Acts 13:9; metaphorically, to fix one's mind on one as an example, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 9, 2; εἴς τι, Acts 1:10; Acts 7:55; 2 Corinthians 3:7, 13; εἴς τι, to look into anything, Acts 11:6. (3 Macc. 2:26. [Aristotle], Polybius 6, 11, 5 [i. e. 6, 11a, 12 Dindorf]; Diodorus 3, 39 [Dindorf ἐνατ.]; Josephus, b. j. 5, 12, 3; Lucian, cont. 16, others)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
4:20; 22:56
Acts
1:10; 3:4; 3:12; 6:15; 7:55; 10:4; 11:6; 13:9; 14:9; 23:1
2 Corinthians
3:7; 3:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G816 matches the Greek ἀτενίζω (atenizō),
which occurs 14 times in 14 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:20 -

He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:56 -

When a servant saw him sitting in the light, and looked closely at him, she said, “This man was with him too.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:10 -

While he was going, they were gazing into heaven, and suddenly two men in white clothes stood by them.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:4 -

Peter, along with John, looked straight at him and said, “Look at us.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:12 -

When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Fellow Israelites, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 6:15 -

And all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:55 -

Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven. He saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:4 -

Staring at him in awe, he said, “What is it, Lord? ”

The angel told him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have ascended as a memorial offering before God.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:6 -

“When I looked closely and considered it, I saw the four-footed animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:9 -

But Saul ​— ​also called Paul ​— ​filled with the Holy Spirit, stared straight at Elymas

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:9 -

He listened as Paul spoke. After looking directly at him and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:1 -

Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience to this day.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:7 -

Now if the ministry that brought death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to gaze steadily at Moses’s face because of its glory, which was set aside,

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:13 -

We are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from gazing steadily until the end[fn] of the glory of what was being set aside,

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