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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 - Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:56

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:56 - And a certain servant girl, seeing him as he sat by the fire, looked intently at him and said, “This man was also with Him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:10 - And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:4 - And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:12 - So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 6:15 - And all who sat in the council, looking steadfastly at 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 he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and 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 - And when he observed him, he was afraid, and said, “What is it, lord?” So he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:6 - “When I observed it intently and considered, I saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:9 - Then Saul, who also is called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:9 - This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:1 - Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, “Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:7 - But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:13 - unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away.
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