Attent Attentive (ISBE)
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a -tent ´ (archaic; 2 Chronicles 6:40 ); a -tent´iv : Expresses the direction of thought and interest toward some one point. Same Hebrew word as "attend," and is used particularly in prayers (Psalm 130:2; Nehemiah 1:6 ). "Very attentive" (Luke 19:48 ) is a paraphrase for what is literally rendered in the Revised Version (British and American), "the people all hung upon him, listening" ἐξεκρέμετο , exekrémeto ̌ .
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