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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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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

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 15 times in 15 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11 - ‘And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:33 - And the Egyptians urged the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:3 - “You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:8 - And David said to Ahimelech, “Is there not here on hand a spear or a sword? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:23 - Now when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem against the Jews, and by force of arms made them cease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:33 - Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
And their years in fear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:15 - “We looked for peace, but no good came;
And for a time of health, and there was trouble!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 - Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them,
Against the mother of the young men,
A plunderer at noonday;
I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them suddenly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:6 - The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,
Which was overthrown in a moment,
With no hand to help her!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:11 - Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness;
None of them shall remain,
None of their multitude,
None of them;
Nor shall there be wailing for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:25 - Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel before the king, and said thus to him, “I have found a man of the captives[fn] of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:24 - Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:19 - Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:44 - “But news from the east and the north shall trouble him; therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:18 - Neither their silver nor their gold
Shall be able to deliver them
In the day of the LORD’s wrath;
But the whole land shall be devoured
By the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make speedy riddance
Of all those who dwell in the land.
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