Strong's Concordance spoudaios: hasty, eager, diligent Original Word: σπουδαῖος, α, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: spoudaios Phonetic Spelling: (spoo-dah'-yos) Short Definition: diligent, earnest Definition: diligent, earnest, zealous, eager. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 4705 spoudaíos (an adjective) – earnestly diligent (living "wide-open, full-throttle"). See 4710 (spoudē). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4705: σπουδαῖοςσπουδαῖος, 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. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance diligent. From spoude; prompt, energetic, earnest -- diligent. see GREEK spoude Forms and Transliterations σπουδαία σπουδαιον σπουδαίον σπουδαῖον σπουδαιοτερον σπουδαιότερον σπουδαιοτερος σπουδαιότερος spoudaion spoudaîon spoudaioteron spoudaióteron spoudaioteros spoudaióterosLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 47053 Occurrences σπουδαῖον — 1 Occ. σπουδαιότερον — 1 Occ. σπουδαιότερος — 1 Occ. 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 2 Corinthians 8:22 Adv |