noun · feminine
ekteneias
Strong’sG1616
earnestness, strenuousness, intentness
stem ektenei-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
**† ἐκ-τένεια, -ας, ἡ
(< ἐκτενής), [in LXX: Jth 4:9, II Mac 14:38, III Mac 6:41 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1616 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidek-ten'-i-ah
intentness
Fromfrom G1618;
King JamesX instantly.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
zeal, assiduousness, Refs 3rd c.BC+; 'gush', 'empressement', Refs 2nd c.BC+; ἐν ἐκτενείᾳ eagerly, LXX+NT; μετὰ πάσης ἐ.LXX
II abundance, ξύλων Refs 2nd c.AD+
III extension, Refs 5th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ekteneias | ekteneiais |
| object accusative | ekteneian | ekteneiain |
| direct address vocative | ekteneiar | ekteneiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ekteneiau | ekteneiaiu |
| to, for dative | ekteneia1×ἐκτενείᾳ | ekteneiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
ekteneia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
ekteneia“earnestness”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 26:7“earnestness”eis han tem dōdekafulem nu en ekteneia nuktan kai hēmeran latreuarōntem elpizatō katantara; …the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is …