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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)
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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 folded the roll, having given it back to the officer, he sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were gazing on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:56

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:56 - and a certain maid having seen him sitting at the light, and having earnestly looked at him, she said, 'And this one was with him!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:10 - and as they were looking stedfastly to the heaven in his going on, then, lo, two men stood by them in white apparel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:4 - And Peter, having looked stedfastly toward him with John, said, 'Look toward us;'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:12 - and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, 'Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 6:15 - and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:55

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:55 - and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked stedfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:4 - and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, 'What is it, Lord?' And he said to him, 'Thy prayers and thy kind acts came up for a memorial before God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:6 - at which having looked stedfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven;

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:9 - And Saul -- who also is Paul -- having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having looked stedfastly on him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:9 - this one was hearing Paul speaking, who, having stedfastly beheld him, and having seen that he hath faith to be saved,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:1 - And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, 'Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:7 - and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:13 - and are not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless,
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