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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 TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:20 - And having rolled up the book, when he had delivered it up to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:56

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:56 - And a certain maid, having seen him sitting by the light, and having fixed her eyes upon him, said, And this man was with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:10 - And as they were gazing into heaven, as he was going, behold, also two men stood by them in white clothing,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:4 - And Peter, looking stedfastly upon him with John, said, Look on us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:12 - And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel, why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we had by our own power or piety made him to walk?

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 6:15 - And all who sat in the council, looking fixedly on him, saw his face as the face of an angel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:55

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:55 - But being full of the Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:4 - But he, having fixed his eyes upon him, and become full of fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms have gone up for a memorial before God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:6 - on which having fixed mine eyes, I considered, and saw the quadrupeds of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:9 - But Saul, who also is Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixing his eyes upon him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:9 - This man heard Paul speaking, who, fixing his eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:1 - And Paul, fixing his eyes on the council, said, Brethren, I have walked in all good conscience with God unto this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:7 - (But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, a glory which is annulled;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:13 - and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the end of that annulled.
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