Lexical Summary ektenēs: stretched, zealous, earnest Original Word: ἐκτενήςTransliteration: ektenēs Phonetic Spelling: (ek-ten-ace') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: stretched, zealous, earnest Meaning: stretched, zealous, earnest Strong's Concordance without ceasing, fervent. From ekteino; intent -- without ceasing, fervent. see GREEK ekteino Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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.) |
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