4705. spoudaios
Lexicon
spoudaios: Diligent, earnest, zealous, eager

Original Word: σπουδαῖος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: spoudaios
Pronunciation: spoo-dah'-yos
Phonetic Spelling: (spoo-dah'-yos)
KJV: diligent
NASB: diligent, earnest
Word Origin: [from G4710 (σπουδή - earnestness)]

1. prompt, energetic, earnest

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
diligent.

From spoude; prompt, energetic, earnest -- diligent.

see GREEK spoude

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 4705 spoudaíos (an adjective) – earnestly diligent (living "wide-open, full-throttle"). See 4710 (spoudē).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from spoudé
Definition
hasty, eager, diligent
NASB Translation
diligent (2), earnest (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4705: σπουδαῖος

σπουδαῖος, σπουδαῖα, σπουδαῖον (σπουδή), from Herodotus down, active, diligent, zealous, earliest: ἐν τίνι, 2 Corinthians 8:22; comparitive σπουδαιότερος, 2 Corinthians 8:17 (Winers Grammar, 242f (227)), 22 (Winers Grammar, § 35, 1); neuter as adverb (Latinstudiosius), very diligently (cf. Buttmann, § 123, 10), 2 Timothy 1:17 R G.

Forms and Transliterations
σπουδαία σπουδαιον σπουδαίον σπουδαῖον σπουδαιοτερον σπουδαιότερον σπουδαιοτερος σπουδαιότερος spoudaion spoudaîon spoudaioteron spoudaióteron spoudaioteros spoudaióteros
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Englishman's Concordance
2 Corinthians 8:17 Adj-NMS-C
GRK: παράκλησιν ἐδέξατο σπουδαιότερος δὲ ὑπάρχων
NAS: himself very earnest, he has gone
INT: exhortation he received more earnest moreover being

2 Corinthians 8:22 Adj-AMS
GRK: πολλοῖς πολλάκις σπουδαῖον ὄντα νυνὶ
NAS: and found diligent in many
KJV: proved diligent in
INT: many things often earnest to be now

2 Corinthians 8:22 Adv
GRK: δὲ πολὺ σπουδαιότερον πεποιθήσει πολλῇ
INT: moreover much more earnest by the confidence great

Strong's Greek 4705
3 Occurrences


σπουδαῖον — 1 Occ.
σπουδαιότερον — 1 Occ.
σπουδαιότερος — 1 Occ.

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