stare, fasten eyes, look stedfastly.
From a compound of a (as a particle of union) and teino (to stretch); to gaze intently -- behold earnestly (stedfastly), fasten (eyes), look (earnestly, stedfastly, up stedfastly), set eyes.
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Strong's 816: ἀτενίζω
ἀτενίζω; 1 aorist
ἠτενισα; (from
ἀτενής stretched, intent, and this from
τείνω and
ἆ intensive; (yet cf. Winers Grammar, § 16, 4; Buttmann, a. at the end, and under the word Alfa
Α,
ἆ, 3));
to fix the eyes on, gaze upon: with the dative of person,
Luke 4:20;
Luke 22:58;
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 [ET];
εἰςτί,
Acts 1:10;
Acts 7:55;
2 Corinthians 3:7, 13;
εἰςτί,
to look into anything,Acts 11:6. (3Macc. 2:26. (Aristotle), Polybius 6, 11, 5 (i. e. 6, 11a, 12 Dindorf); Diodorus 3, 39 (Dindorf
ἐνατενίζω); Josephus, b. j. 5, 12, 3; Lucian, cont. 16, others.)
Strong's Greek: 816. ἀτενίζω (atenizó) — 14 Occurrences
Luke 4:20 - V-PPA-NMP
GRK:συναγωγῇ ἦσαν ἀτενίζοντες αὐτῷ
NAS: in the synagogue were fixed on Him.
KJV: in the synagogue were fastened on him.
INT: synagogue were fixed upon him
Luke 22:56 - V-APA-NFS
GRK:φῶς καὶ ἀτενίσασα αὐτῷ εἶπεν
NAS: in the firelight and looking intently at him, said,
KJV: and earnestly looked upon him,
INT: light and having looked intently on him said
Acts 1:10 - V-PPA-NMP
GRK:καὶ ὡς ἀτενίζοντες ἦσαν εἰς
NAS:And as they were gazing intently into the sky
INT: And as looking intently they were into
Acts 3:4 - V-APA-NMS
GRK:ἀτενίσας δὲ Πέτρος
NAS: with John, fixed his gaze on him and said,
KJV: And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him
INT:having looked intently moreover Peter
Acts 3:12 - V-PIA-2P
GRK:ἡμῖν τί ἀτενίζετε ὡς ἰδίᾳ
NAS: why do you gaze at us, as if
KJV: why look ye so earnestly on us,
INT: on us why you look intently as if by [our] own
Acts 6:15 - V-APA-NMP
GRK:καὶ ἀτενίσαντες εἰς αὐτὸν
NAS:And fixing their gaze on him, all
KJV: the council, looking stedfastly on
INT: And having looked intently on him
Acts 7:55 - V-APA-NMS
GRK:πνεύματος ἁγίου ἀτενίσας εἰς τὸν
NAS: Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven
KJV: Ghost, looked up stedfastly into
INT: of [the] Spirit Holy having looked intently into
Acts 10:4 - V-APA-NMS
GRK:ὁ δὲ ἀτενίσας αὐτῷ καὶ
NAS:And fixing his gaze on him and being
KJV: And when he looked on him, he was
INT: moreover having looked intently on him and
Acts 11:6 - V-APA-NMS
GRK:εἰς ἣν ἀτενίσας κατενόουν καὶ
NAS:and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing
KJV: the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered,
INT: on which having looked intently I considered and
Acts 13:9 - V-APA-NMS
GRK:πνεύματος ἁγίου ἀτενίσας εἰς αὐτὸν
NAS: Spirit, fixed his gaze on him,
KJV: Ghost, set his eyes on him,
INT: [the] Spirit Holy having looked steadfastly upon him
Acts 14:9 - V-APA-NMS
GRK:λαλοῦντος ὃς ἀτενίσας αὐτῷ καὶ
NAS: who, when he had fixed his gaze on him and had seen
KJV: who stedfastly beholding him,
INT: speaking who having looked intently to him and
Acts 23:1 - V-APA-NMS
GRK:ἀτενίσας δὲ ὁ
NAS: Paul, looking intently at the Council,
KJV: Paul, earnestly beholding the council,
INT:having looked intently moreover
2 Corinthians 3:7 - V-ANA
GRK:μὴ δύνασθαι ἀτενίσαι τοὺς υἱοὺς
NAS: could not look intently at the face
KJV: not stedfastly behold the face
INT: not to be able to look intently the children
2 Corinthians 3:13 - V-ANA
GRK:τὸ μὴ ἀτενίσαι τοὺς υἱοὺς
NAS: of Israel would not look intently at the end
KJV: could not stedfastly look to the end
INT: not to look intently the sons
