Quick Definition
I direct my gaze, look steadily
Strong's Definition
to gaze intently
Derivation: from a compound of G1 (Α) (as a particle of union) and (to stretch);
KJV Usage: behold earnestly (stedfastly), fasten (eyes), look (earnestly, stedfastly, up stedfastly), set eyes
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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, Luk_4:20; Luk_22:58; Act_3:12; Act_10:4; Act_14:9; Act_23:1; followed by εἰς with an accusative of person, Act_3:4; Act_6:15; Act_13:9; metaphorically, to fix one's mind on one as an example, Clement of Rome, 1Co_9:1-27; 1Co_2:1-16 [ET]; εἰς τί, Act_1:10; Act_7:55; 2Co_3:7; 2Co_3:13; εἰς τί, to look into anything, Act_11:6. (3Ma_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.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀτενίζω ate nizō 14x
to fix one s eyes upon, look steadily, gaze intently, Luk_4:20 gaze; look straight; stare.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** ἀτενίζω
( < ἀτενής , strained, intent; < τείνω ),
[in LXX : 1Es_6:28 , 3Ma_2:26 * ;]
to look fixedly, gaze ( MM , s.v. ): c. dat. pers ., gaze upon: Luk_4:20 ; Luk_22:56 , Act_3:12 ; Act_10:4 ; Act_14:9 ; Act_23:1 ; seq . εἰς , c . acc pers ., Act_3:4 ; Act_6:15 ; Act_13:9 ; metaph ., Act_1:10 ; Act_7:55 ; Act_11:6 , 2Co_3:7 ; 2Co_3:13 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀτενίζω [page 89]
For this characteristically Lukan word cf. the Leiden occult papyrus W xvi. 8 f. εἰσελθόντος δὲ τοῦ θεοῦ μὴ ἐνατένιζε τῇ ὄψει , ἀλλὰ τῆς ( l. τοῖς ) ποσί . The intensive meaning, which underlies the NT usage, comes out in the description of Thecla s rapt attention to Paul s teaching ἀτενίζουσα ὡς πρὸς εὐφρασίαν ( Acta Pauli viii.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀτενίζω [Etym: ἀτενής] "to look intently, gaze earnestly", εἴς τι Arist. ; τινί upon one, NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀτενίζω
(ἀτενής, strained, intent; τείνω), [in LXX: I Est.6:28, 3Ma.2:26 * ;]
to look fixedly, gaze (MM, see word): with dative of person(s), gaze upon: Luk.4:20 22:56, Act.3:12 10:4 14:9 23:1; before εἰς, with accusative of person(s), Act.3:4 6:15 13:9; metaphorically, Act.1:10 7:55 11:6, 2Co.3:7 3:13.†
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