ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΙ, σπουδαιοι
SPOUDAIOI, spoudaioi
Sounds Like: spoo-DAI-oy
Translations: diligent, zealous, earnest, eager, serious, important, a serious one, an important one
From the root: ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone or something as diligent, zealous, or earnest. It can also refer to something that is important or serious. It is used to characterize individuals who are eager and committed to a task or a cause, or to describe matters of significant weight.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4705 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Justin Martyr
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΑ — diligent, earnest, eager, zealous, important, serious, a diligent thing, an important thing, diligent things, important things
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΑΣ — diligent, earnest, zealous, serious, important, a serious, an important
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΝ — diligent, earnest, eager, important, serious, valuable, a diligent thing, an important thing
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΣ — diligent, earnest, zealous, eager, serious, important, a diligent one, an earnest one
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΤΕΡΟΝ — more diligent, more earnest, more zealous, more important, more serious, more quickly, more eagerly, more carefully
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΤΕΡΟΣ — more diligent, more earnest, more zealous, more eager, more important, more serious
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΤΕΡΩΣ — more diligently, more earnestly, more zealously, more eagerly, more carefully
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΥΣ — diligent, earnest, zealous, eager, important, serious, diligent ones, earnest ones, important ones
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΩΣ — diligently, earnestly, eagerly, zealously, carefully, with haste
- ΣΠΟΥΔΕΟΣ — diligent, zealous, earnest, eager, careful, assiduous
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