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ἐκτενής

ektenḗs · G1618 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. without ceasing, continuously, constantly

    (Derivative of ἐκτείνω ‘to stretch out,’) Pertaining to an unceasing activity, normally involving a degree of intensity and/or perseverance

    Examples

    1 Peter 4:8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

  2. eager, eagerly, earnest, earnestly

    Pertaining to being eager to persevere in some state or activity

    Examples

    1 Peter 4:8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Without ceasing, continuously, constantly68.12
Used in 1 Peter 4:8, where believers are urged above all to keep fervent in their love for one another, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Eager, eagerly, earnest, earnestly25.71
This entry carries no independent occurrence of its own beyond its sole attested sense; this lexeme's one occurrence (“Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another,” 1 Peter 4:8) is already fully accounted for by the “without ceasing, continuously” domain. The domain is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster row, whose “eager, earnest” sense is independently attested by the paired form ἐκτενέστερον (ektenésteron, G1617), not by this entry.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἐκτείνω ekteínō · G1614 · to stretch out, to extend, to reach out · 16×ἐκτενῶς ektenōs · G1619 · without ceasing, continuously, constantly · 2×ἐκτένεια ekténeia · G1616 · earnestness, eager perseverance · 1×ἐκτενήςektenḗs · G1618ἐπεκτείνομαι epekteínomai · G1901 · to reach out, to stretch toward, to seek strongly to · 1×ὑπερεκτείνω hyperekteínō · G5239 · to overextend, to stretch out beyond, to overstep a limit · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐκτενές (ἐκτείνω), properly, stretched out; figuratively, intent, earnest, assiduous:…
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 Pet 4:8. Neuter of the comparitive ἐκτενέστερον, as adverb, more intently, more earnestly, Lk 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.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Sources

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