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ἐκτενῶς

ektenōs · G1619 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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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

    Acts 12:5 So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made to God intensely by the church.

  2. eager, eagerly, earnest, earnestly

    Pertaining to being eager to persevere in some state or activity

    Examples

    Acts 12:5 So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made to God intensely by the church.

    1 Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brothers and sisters, fervently love one another from the heart,

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
Eager, eagerly, earnest, earnestly25.71
Used in 1 Peter 1:22, where believers who have purified their souls in obedience to the truth are urged to love one another fervently from the heart.
Without ceasing, continuously, constantly68.12
Used in Acts 12:5, where Peter was kept in prison, but prayer for him was being made to God fervently by the church, describing the sustained, unceasing quality of the church's prayer.
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×ἐκτενῶςektenōs · G1619ἐκτένεια ekténeia · G1616 · earnestness, eager perseverance · 1×ἐκτενής ektenḗs · G1618 · intent · 1×ἐπεκτείνομαι 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 adverb, earnestly, fervently: Acts 12:5 L T Tr WH; ἀγαπᾶν, 1 Pet 1:22. (Jon 3:8; Joel…
adverb, earnestly, fervently: Acts 12:5 L T Tr WH; ἀγαπᾶν, 1 Pet 1:22. (Jon 3:8; Joel 1:14; Joel 1:3Macc. 5:9. Polybius etc. Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 311; (Winer's Grammar, 25; 463 (431)).)

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Be Eager, Be Earnest, In a Devoted Manner2 occurrencesContinue1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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