Word Summary
atenizō: to look fixedly, gaze
Original Word: ἀτενίζωTransliteration: atenizō
Phonetic Spelling: (at-en-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to look fixedly, gaze
Meaning: to look fixedly, gaze
Strong's Concordance
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.
see GREEK a
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 816: ἀτενίζωἀτενίζω; 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];
εἰς τί,
Acts 1:10;
Acts 7:55;
2 Corinthians 3:7, 13;
εἰς τί,
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.)