Greek adjective · G4705
σπουδαῖος
spoudaiosspoo-dah'-yos
eager
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: spoudaîos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4705is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4705
prompt, energetic, earnest
The King James renders it: diligent.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
spoudaios is rendered "eager". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in 2 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Corinthians 8:17For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.
2 Corinthians 8:17σπουδαιότερος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in 2 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- earnest2
- very earnest1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σπουδή | spoude | diligence | Uses12 |
| σπουδάζω | spoudazo | be eager | Uses11 |
| σπουδαίως | spoudaios | diligently | Uses3 |
| σπουδαιοτέρως | spoudaioteros | more eagerly | Uses1 |
| σπουδαιότερον | spoudaioteron | more diligently | Usesnot recorded |
| σπουδαιότερος | spoudaioteros | more diligent | Usesnot recorded |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σπουδαῖον1
- σπουδαιότερον1
- σπουδαιότερος1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM-C
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM-C
2 Corinthians
three uses
For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.
- σπουδαιότεροςspoudaioterosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: very earnest
And we are sending along with them our brother whose earnestness has been proven many times and in many ways, and now even more so by his great confidence in you.
- σπουδαῖονspoudaionadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: earnest
- σπουδαιότερονspoudaioteronadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: earnest
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.