ἐκτεν-ής, ές,
I
1. strained: hence of persons, warmly attached, friendly, Plb. 21.22.4 (Sup.), cf. D.S. 34.2.39, Socr. ap. Stob. 4.31.130; assiduous, περί τινα Supp.Epigr. 2.277.5 (Delph., ii B.C.): Comp. - έστερος τῇ προθυμίᾳ IGRom. 4.293a ii 38 (Pergam., ii B.C.): Sup. - εστάτη προθυμία Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.293, cf. Vit.Philonid. p.9C.; πρόνοια UPZ 110.46 (ii B. C.).
2. extended, Dam. Pr. 64; capable of extension, ἐ. ἐστι τὸ μεταδίδον τῶν ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις Herm. in Phdr. p.121A.
3. abundant, γάλα Sor. 1.94.
II Adv. - νῶς (Elean ἐκτενέωρ GDI 1172.12; Cret. ἐκτενίως ib.5138.13; Ion. - έως Ps.- Hdt. Vit.Hom. 7)
1. earnestly, zealously, ἀγαπᾶσθαι Machoap. Ath. 13.579e; ποιεῖν τι Arist. MM 1210a27; συναγωνίζεσθαι IG 22.945, cf. SIG 538.17 (Delph., iii B. C.); εὐχὴ ἐ. γινομένη [Act 12:5]: Comp. - έστερον Cic. Att. 13.9.1: Sup. - έστατα D.S. 29.4.
2. in Adv. also, eagerly, freely, splendidly (condemned by Phryn. 285), προσδέξασθαί τινα Plb. 8.19.1, cf. D.S. 2.24, etc.; of public duties, λαμπρῶς καὶ ἐ. τετελεκότα CIG 2771ii14 (Aphrodisias): Comp., πολυτελῶς καὶ ἐκτενέστερον τῶν ἄλλων Agatharch. Fr.Hist. 6J. - Not in early writers, corrupt in A. Supp. 983.
ἐκτενής ektenēs 1x
pr. extended; met. intense, earnest, fervent, eager, [1Pe 4:8]
G1618 — ἐκτενής
ἐκτενές (ἐκτείνω), properly, stretched out; figuratively, intent, earnest, assiduous: προσευχή, [Act 12:5] R G (εὐχή, Ignatius (interpolated) ad Eph. 10 [ET]; δέησις καί ἱκεσία, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 59, 2 [ET]); ἀγάπη, [1Pe 4:8]. Neuter of the comparitive ἐκτενέστερον, as adverb, more intently, more earnestly, [Luk 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.)
** ἐκτενής , - ές
( < ἐκτείνω ),
[in LXX : [3M][a 3:10]; 3Ma 5:29 * ;]
stretched, strained. Metaph ., earnest, zealous: [1Pe 4:8]. †