STRONGS G1617:
ἐκτενής,
-ές, (
ἐκτείνω), properly,
stretched out; figuratively,
intent, earnest, assiduous:
προσευχή,
Acts 12:5 R G (
εὐχή, Ignatius [interpolated] ad Eph. 10;
δέησις κ.
ἱκεσία, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 59, 2);
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]. (
ἐκτενὴς φίλος, Aeschylus suppl. 983; Polybius 22, 5, 4; then very often from Philo on; cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 311.)
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