Strong's Greek: 1619. ἐκτενῶς (ektenós) -- intently, fervently

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Lexicon

ektenós: intently, fervently

Original Word: ἐκτενῶς
Part of Speech: Adverb
Transliteration: ektenós
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-ten-oce')
Short Definition: earnestly, strenuously
Definition: earnestly, strenuously, fervently.

HELPS word-Studies

Cognate: 1619 ektenṓs (an adverb) – properly, fully-stretched, i.e. describing the verbal idea as extended out, to its necessary (full) potential ("without slack"); strenuously, without undue let up (as "completely taut"). See 1618 (ektenēs).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
adverb from ektenés
Definition
intently, fervently
NASB Translation
fervently (3).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 1619: ἐκτενῶς

ἐκτενῶς, adverb, earnestly, fervently: Acts 12:5 L T Tr WH; ἀγαπᾶν, 1 Peter 1:22. (Jonah 3:8; Joel 1:14; 3Macc. 5:9. Polybius etc. Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 311; (Winer's Grammar, 25; 463 (431)).)

Strong's

fervently.

Adverb from ektenes; intently -- fervently.

see GREEK ektenes