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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:20 - And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened G816 on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:56 - But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked G816 upon him, and said, This man was also with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 1:10 - And while they looked stedfastly G816 toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:4 - And Peter, fastening his eyes G816 upon him with John, said, Look on us.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 3:12 - And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly G816 on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 6:15 - And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly G816 on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:55 - But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly G816 into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:4 - And when he looked G816 on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:6 - Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, G816 I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:9 - Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes G816 on him,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:9 - The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding G816 him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:1 - And Paul, earnestly beholding G816 the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:7 - But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold G816 the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:13 - And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could G816  not stedfastly look G816 to the end of that which is abolished:
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