ektenas

Strong’sG1618

intent, constant, strenuous, intense

stem ekten-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

** ἐκτενής, -ές

(< ἐκτείνω), [in LXX: III Mac 3:10 5:29 *;]

stretched, strained. Metaph., earnest, zealous: I Pe 4:8.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1618 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidek-ten-ace'

intent

Fromfrom G1614;

King Jameswithout ceasing, fervent.

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

ἐκτεν-ής, ές,
strained: hence of persons, warmly attached, friendly, Refs 5th c.BC+; assiduous, περί τινα Refs 2nd c.BC+: comparative - έστερος τῇ προθυμίᾳ Refs 2nd c.BC+: superlative - εστάτη προθυμία Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 extended, Refs 5th c.AD+; capable of extension, ἐ. ἐστι τὸ μεταδίδον τῶν ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις Refs 5th c.AD+
3 abundant, γάλα Refs 2nd c.AD+
II adverb -νῶς (Elean ἐκτενέωρ Refs Ionic dialect -έως Ps.-Refs 5th c.BC+ earnestly, zealously, ἀγαπᾶσθαι Machoap.Refs 4th c.BC+; εὐχὴ ἐ. γινομένη NT: comparative -έστερον Refs 1st c.BC+: superlative -έστατα Refs 1st c.BC+
II.2 in adverb also, eagerly, freely, splendidly (condemned by Refs 2nd c.BC+; of public duties, λαμπρῶς καὶ ἐ. τετελεκότα Refs: comparative, πολυτελῶς καὶ ἐκτενέστερον τῶν ἄλλων Refs 2nd c.BC+—Not in early writers, corrupt in Refs 4th c.BC+

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.

constant1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	ektenos	ektenas	ektenem	ektenois	ektenais	ekteneim
object accusative	ektenon	ektenan1×ἐκτενῆ		ektenoin	ektenain
direct address vocative	ektenor	ektenar		ektenoir	ektenair
of, belonging to genitive	ektenou	ektenau	ekteneu	ektenoiu	ektenaiu	ekteneiu
to, for dative	ekteno	ektena	ektene	ektenoi	ektenai	ektenei

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

ektenstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ekten 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

ektenan“constant”objectaccusative singular1×

1 Peter 4:8“constant”pro panteiu tan eis heautoin agapan ektenan echarōntois, hoti agapas kaluptatō plēthem hamartaiu;Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.