Greek verb · G816
ἀτενίζω
atenizoat-en-id'-zo
to gaze
14 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: atenízō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G816is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G816
to gaze intently
The King James renders it: behold earnestly (stedfastly), fasten (eyes), look (earnestly, stedfastly, up stedfastly), set eyes.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
atenizo is rendered "to gaze". It stands 14 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 4:20Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,
Luke 4:20ἀτενίζοντες
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's fourteen uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- having looked intently9
- to look intently2
- fixed upon1
- looking intently1
- you look intently1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἀτενίσας7
- ἀτενίζοντες2
- ἀτενίσαι2
- ἀτενίζετε1
- ἀτενίσαντες1
- ἀτενίσασα1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular7V-AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-AAN
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2V-PAP-NPM
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-AAP-NPM
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-AAP-NSF
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-PAI-2P
Luke
two uses
Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,
- ἀτενίζοντεςatenizontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: fixed upon
A servant girl saw him seated in the firelight and looked intently at him. “This man also was with Him,” she said.
- ἀτενίσασαatenisasaverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: having looked intently
Acts
ten uses
They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
- ἀτενίζοντεςatenizontesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: looking intently
Peter looked directly at him, as did John. “Look at us!” said Peter.
- ἀτενίσαςatenisasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Having looked intently
And when Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised by this? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?
- ἀτενίζετεatenizeteverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you look intently
All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
- ἀτενίσαντεςatenisantesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having looked intently
But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
- ἀτενίσαςatenisasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having looked intently
Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.
- ἀτενίσαςatenisasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having looked intently
I looked at it closely and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air.
- ἀτενίσαςatenisasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having looked intently
Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked directly at Elymas
- ἀτενίσαςatenisasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having looked intently
This man was listening to the words of Paul, who looked intently at him and saw that he had faith to be healed.
- ἀτενίσαςatenisasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having looked intently
Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”
- Ἀτενίσαςatenisasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Having looked intently
2 Corinthians
two uses
Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
- ἀτενίσαιatenisaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to look intently
We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
- ἀτενίσαιatenisaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to look intently
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.