1618. ektenés
Strong's Concordance
ektenés: stretched, fig. zealous, earnest
Original Word: ἐκτενής, ές
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: ektenés
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-ten-ace')
Short Definition: intent, constant, strenuous, intense
Definition: intent, constant, strenuous, intense; met: earnest, zealous.
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1618 ektenḗs (an adjective, derived from 1537 /ek, "wholly out" which intensifies teinō, "to stretch" which is also the root of English terms, "tension" and "tense") – properly, stretch out, i.e. fully because completely taut; (figuratively) at maximum potential, without slack because fully extended to its necessary outcome.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1618: ἐκτενής

ἐκτενής, 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 Peter 4:8. Neuter of the comparitive ἐκτενέστερον, as adverb, more intently, more earnestly, Luke 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.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
without ceasing, fervent.

From ekteino; intent -- without ceasing, fervent.

see GREEK ekteino

Forms and Transliterations
εκτενέστερον εκτενη εκτενή ἐκτενῆ εκτενής ektene ektenê ektenē ektenē̂
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Strong's Greek 1618
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ἐκτενῆ — 1 Occ.

1 Peter 4:8 Adj-AFS
GRK: ἑαυτοὺς ἀγάπην ἐκτενῆ ἔχοντες ὅτι
NAS: keep fervent in your love
KJV: all things have fervent charity among
INT: yourselves love fervent having because

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