Lexicon ektenés: stretched, fig. zealous, earnest Original Word: ἐκτενής, έςPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: ektenés Phonetic Spelling: (ek-ten-ace') Short Definition: intent, constant, strenuous, intense Definition: intent, constant, strenuous, intense; met: earnest, zealous. HELPS word-Studies 1618 ektenḗs (an adjective, derived from 1537 /ek, "wholly out" which intensifies teinō, "to stretch" which is also the root of English terms, "tension" and "tense") – properly, stretch out, i.e. fully because completely taut; (figuratively) at maximum potential, without slack because fully extended to its necessary outcome. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ekteinóDefinitionstretched, fig. zealous, earnest NASB Translationfervent (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1618: ἐκτενήςἐκτενής, ἐκτενές ( ἐκτείνω), properly, stretched out; figuratively, intent, earnest, assiduous: προσευχή, Acts 12:5 R G ( εὐχή, Ignatius (interpolated) ad Eph. 10 [ET]; δέησις καί ἱκεσία, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 59, 2 [ET]); ἀγάπη, 1 Peter 4:8. Neuter of the comparitive ἐκτενέστερον, as adverb, more intently, more earnestly, Luke 22:44 ( L brackets WH reject the passage). ( ἐκτενής φίλος, Aeschylus suppl. 983; Polybius 22, 5, 4; then very often from Philo on; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 311.)
Strong's without ceasing, fervent. From ekteino; intent -- without ceasing, fervent. see GREEK ekteino |
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