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Lexicon :: Strong's G4710 - spoudē

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σπουδή
Transliteration
spoudē (Key)
Pronunciation
spoo-day'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TDNT Reference: 7:559,1069

Strong’s Definitions

σπουδή spoudḗ, spoo-day'; from G4692; "speed", i.e. (by implication) despatch, eagerness, earnestness:—business, (earnest) care(-fulness), diligence, forwardness, haste.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G4710 in the following manner: diligence (5x), haste (2x), business (1x), care (1x), forwardness (1x), earnest care (1x), carefulness (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G4710 in the following manner: diligence (5x), haste (2x), business (1x), care (1x), forwardness (1x), earnest care (1x), carefulness (1x).

  1. haste, with haste

  2. earnestness, diligence

    1. earnestness in accomplishing, promoting, or striving after anything

    2. to give all diligence, interest one's self most earnestly

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σπουδή spoudḗ, spoo-day'; from G4692; "speed", i.e. (by implication) despatch, eagerness, earnestness:—business, (earnest) care(-fulness), diligence, forwardness, haste.
STRONGS G4710:
σπουδή, σπωδης, ἡ (σπεύδω (which see)), from Homer down;
1. haste: μετά σπουδῆς, with haste, Mark 6:25; Luke 1:39 (Wis. 19:2; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 9, 7; Herodian, 3, 4, 1; 6, 4, 3).
2. earnestness, diligence: universally, earnestness in accomplishing, promoting, or striving after anything, Romans 12:11; 2 Corinthians 7:11, 12; 2 Corinthians 8:7f; ἐν σπουδή, with diligence, Romans 12:8; σπουδήν ἐνδείκνυσθαι, Hebrews 6:11; πᾶσαν σπουδήν ποιεῖσθαι (see ποιέω, I. 3, p. 525{b} bottom), to give all diligence, interest oneself most earnestly, Jude 1:3; σπουδήν παρεισφέρειν, 2 Peter 1:5; ἡ σπουδή ὑπέρ τίνος, earnest care for one, 2 Corinthians 8:16 (περί τίνος (Demosthenes, 90, 10); Diodorus 1, 75).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Mark
6:25
Luke
1:39
Romans
12:8; 12:11
2 Corinthians
7:11; 7:12; 8:7; 8:16
Hebrews
6:11
2 Peter
1:5
Jude
1:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4710 matches the Greek σπουδή (spoudē),
which occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:25 - She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of Yochanan the immerser on a platter."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 1:39 - Miryam arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Yehudah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:8 - or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:11 - not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:11 - For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:12 - So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:7 - But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:8 - I speak not by way of mitzvah, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:16 - But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 6:11 - We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:5 - Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:3 - Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the holy ones.
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