atenizō · stare at

What it means

atenizō (ἀτενίζω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “stare at”.

Look intently, fix one's eyes on.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To look at someone or something without looking away, intently.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• looking intently ×4
• staring ×3
• gaze ×2
• do you stare ×1
• fixed ×1
• gazing ×1
• he gazed ×1
• stared ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×2
• Acts×10
• 2 Corinthians×2

• Luke 4:20

  And rolling up the scroll and giving it back to the attendant, he sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.

• Luke 22:56

  And a certain servant girl, seeing him sitting facing the light and looking intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”

• Acts 1:10

  And as they were gazing into heaven while he was going, look, two men stood by them in white clothing,

• Acts 3:4

  And Peter, looking intently at him, with John, said, “Look at us.”

• Acts 3:12

  And when Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

• Acts 6:15

  And looking intently at him, all who were sitting in the council saw his face like the face of an angel.

• Acts 7:55

  But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

• Acts 10:4

  And he, staring at him and becoming terrified, said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have gone up as a memorial before God.

• Acts 11:6

  Staring into it I was observing it and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the reptiles and the birds of the sky.

• Acts 13:9

  But Saul, who is also Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, stared at him

• Acts 14:9

  This man heard Paul speaking; and he, staring at him and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

• Acts 23:1

  And Paul, looking intently at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived my life in all good conscience before God up to this day.”

• 2 Corinthians 3:7

  Now if the service of death, engraved in letters on stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, a glory that was being set aside,

• 2 Corinthians 3:13

  and we are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not gaze at the end of what was being set aside.