2001 Translation

SPHODRA, sphodra

Sounds Like: SFO-drah

Translations: very, exceedingly, greatly, strongly, vehemently

From the root: ΣΦΟΔΡΑ

Part of Speech: Adverb

Explanation: This word is an adverb used to intensify the meaning of a verb, adjective, or another adverb. It indicates a high degree or intensity of the action or quality described, often translated as 'very much' or 'to a great extent'. It is used to emphasize the force or extent of something.

Inflection: Does not inflect

Strong’s number: G4970 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 25:2, 32:3

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 8:3

Codex Sinaiticus

• Numbers — 16:15
• Deuteronomy — 29:27, 30:14
• Judges — 10:9
• 1 Chronicles — 10:4, 16:25, 18:8, 19:5
• 2 Esdras — 10:1, 12:2, 14:1, 15:6, 16:16, 23:8
• Esther — 3:5, 4:17k, 5:1c, 5:9
• Judith — 1:12, 1:16, 2:17, 2:28, 4:2, 5:2, 5:9, 5:18, 6:20, 7:2, 7:4, 7:18, 8:7, 8:8, 8:30, 10:4, 10:7, 10:14, 12:16, 13:17, 14:10, 14:19, 15:6, 15:7, 16:23
• 1 Maccabees — 1:4, 1:64, 2:14, 2:39, 3:31, 3:41, 4:21, 4:58, 5:1, 5:38, 5:45, 5:46, 5:63, 6:2, 6:8, 6:41, 7:48, 8:4, 8:6, 8:13, 8:19, 9:6, 9:22, 9:24, 9:68, 10:2, 10:46, 10:50, 10:68, 11:53, 12:52, 13:22, 13:49, 14:16, 16:7, 16:22
• 4 Maccabees — 3:8, 8:2
• Psalms — 6:4, 6:11, 20:2, 30:12, 37:9, 45:2, 46:10, 47:2, 49:3, 77:29, 77:59, 78:8, 91:6, 92:5, 95:4, 96:9, 103:1, 104:24, 106:38, 108:30, 111:1, 115:1, 118:4, 118:8, 118:43, 118:47, 118:96, 118:107, 118:138, 118:140, 118:167, 138:14, 141:7, 144:3
• Job — 1:3, 2:13, 32:2, 32:3, 35:15
• Sirach — 1:8, 6:20, 7:17, 11:6, 17:26, 25:2, 39:16, 43:11, 43:29, 47:24, 51:24
• Isaiah — 16:6, 31:1, 47:6, 47:9, 52:13, 64:8, 64:11
• Jeremiah — 2:12, 2:36, 9:18, 14:17, 18:13, 20:11, 24:2, 27:12, 31:16, 47:12
• Joel — 2:11
• Obadiah — 1:2
• Jonah — 4:4, 4:9
• Nahum — 2:2
• Zephaniah — 1:14
• Zechariah — 9:2, 9:5, 14:4, 14:14
• Matthew — 2:10, 17:6, 17:23, 18:31, 19:25, 26:22, 27:54
• Mark — 16:4
• Luke — 18:23
• Acts of the Apostles — 6:7
• Revelation — 16:21

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 21:160, 29:272, 33:295, 2:15, 12:125, 17:168
• Book Two — 2:15, 12:125, 17:168

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 4:109, 19:320
• Book 2 — 1:2, 2:17, 3:30, 5:63, 5:85, 10:249
• Book 3 — 5:82, 5:98
• Book 4 — 5:98, 6:107, 7:163, 8:249
• Book 5 — 2:136
• Book 6 — 3:36, 4:59, 7:143, 13:298
• Book 7 — 1:22, 7:150, 7:154, 8:173, 14:377
• Book 8 — 4:100, 6:170, 14:381
• Book 9 — 2:27, 4:87, 7:150, 10:220
• Book 10 — 8:131, 9:158, 11:262, 11:280
• Book 11 — 3:54, 4:89, 6:253
• Book 12 — 6:179, 6:204, 9:367, 9:373
• Book 13 — 1:25, 2:47, 3:77, 6:214, 10:289, 11:304, 11:309, 11:319
• Book 14 — 9:160, 9:176, 13:365, 13:369, 14:383
• Book 15 — 3:48, 4:101
• Book 17 — 2:27, 5:106
• Book 18 — 3:70, 6:165
• Book 19 — 1:153, 2:208, 6:301, 7:320
• Book 20 — 1:3, 2:22

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 14:9, 15:7, 18:10, 26:11, 28:3, 28:11
• Book Two — 19:7
• Book Three — 8:1
• Book Four — 6:13
• Book Five — 5:17
• Book Six — 2:80
• Book Seven — 5:13, 6:38, 6:42, 7:2, 7:23

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 35:1, 41:1, 50:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 2:6, 13:2, 22:7, 25:5, 31:7, 37:1, 53:3, 56:7, 56:18, 73:3, 134:5

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 13:68, 19:97, 24:116, 25:125, 32:159, 36:181, 38:191, 41:204, 46:238, 51:262, 55:289, 60:309, 67:377, 68:384, 72:401

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 11:8, 12:8

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 7:18, 7:19, 12:14, 13:2, 13:13, 15:1, 17:2, 17:6, 17:20, 18:20, 19:9, 20:8, 21:11, 24:16, 24:35, 26:13, 26:16, 27:33, 27:34, 30:43, 32:7, 34:7, 34:12, 39:6, 41:31, 41:49, 47:13, 47:27, 50:9, 50:10
• Exodus — 1:7, 1:12, 1:20, 9:3, 9:18, 9:24, 10:14, 11:3, 12:38, 14:10, 19:18, 19:19
• Numbers — 11:10, 11:33, 12:3, 13:29, 14:7, 14:39, 16:15, 22:3, 32:1
• Deuteronomy — 2:4, 3:5, 4:9, 4:15, 6:3, 9:21, 13:14, 17:4, 17:17, 20:15, 24:8, 27:8, 28:54, 29:28, 30:14
• Joshua — 3:16, 6:18, 9:15, 9:19, 9:28, 9:30, 10:2, 10:20, 11:4, 22:5, 22:8, 23:6, 23:11
• Judges — 2:15, 3:17, 6:6, 10:9, 11:33, 12:2, 13:6, 15:18, 18:9, 19:11
• Ruth — 1:20
• 1 Samuel — 2:17, 2:22, 3:21, 4:10, 5:9, 5:11, 6:19, 11:6, 12:18, 14:20, 14:31, 16:21, 17:11, 18:15, 19:2, 19:4, 19:8, 20:30, 21:12, 25:2, 25:3, 25:15, 25:36, 26:21, 27:12, 28:5, 28:15, 28:20, 28:21, 30:6, 31:4
• 2 Samuel — 1:26, 3:8, 8:8, 10:5, 11:2, 12:2, 12:5, 12:30, 13:1, 13:3, 13:15, 13:21, 14:25, 14:27, 17:8, 18:17, 19:32, 24:10, 24:14
• 1 Kings — 1:4, 1:6, 1:15, 2:12, 2:35, 2:46, 4:25, 4:26, 5:7, 7:32, 10:2, 10:10, 10:11, 11:19, 12:24, 17:17, 18:3, 20:26
• 2 Kings — 10:4, 14:26, 17:18, 21:16
• 1 Chronicles — 10:4, 16:25, 18:8, 19:5, 20:2, 21:8, 21:13
• 2 Chronicles — 4:18, 7:8, 9:1, 11:12, 16:8, 16:12, 16:14, 24:24, 25:10, 30:13, 32:27, 32:29, 33:12, 33:14, 35:23
• Ezra (Alpha) — 8:88
• Ezra (Beta) — 10:1
• Nehemiah — 2:2, 4:7, 5:6, 6:16, 13:8
• Esther — 3:5, 4:17, 5:1, 5:9
• Judith — 1:12, 2:17, 2:18, 2:28, 4:2, 5:2, 5:9, 5:18, 6:20, 7:2, 7:4, 7:18, 8:7, 8:8, 8:30, 10:4, 10:7, 10:14, 12:16, 12:20, 13:17, 14:10, 14:19, 15:6, 15:7, 16:23
• Tobit — 3:10, 6:18
• 1 Maccabees — 1:4, 1:64, 2:14, 2:39, 3:27, 3:31, 3:41, 4:21, 4:58, 5:1, 5:38, 5:45, 5:46, 5:63, 6:2, 6:8, 6:41, 7:48, 8:4, 8:6, 8:13, 8:19, 9:6, 9:22, 9:24, 9:68, 10:2, 10:46, 10:50, 10:68, 11:53, 12:52, 13:22, 13:49, 14:16, 16:7, 16:22
• 2 Maccabees — 3:11, 14:37
• 3 Maccabees — 5:51
• 4 Maccabees — 3:8, 8:2
• Psalms — 6:4, 6:11, 20:2, 30:12, 37:9, 45:2, 46:10, 47:2, 49:3, 77:29, 77:59, 78:8, 91:6, 92:5, 95:4, 96:9, 103:1, 104:24, 106:38, 108:30, 111:1, 115:1, 118:4, 118:8, 118:43, 118:47, 118:48, 118:96, 118:107, 118:138, 118:140, 118:156, 118:167, 138:14, 141:7, 144:3
• Psalms of Solomon — 2:17, 8:2
• Job — 1:3, 2:13, 32:2, 32:3, 35:15
• Sirach — 1:8, 6:20, 7:17, 11:6, 17:26, 25:2, 39:16, 43:11, 43:29, 47:24, 51:24
• Isaiah — 16:6, 31:1, 47:6, 47:9, 52:13, 64:9, 64:12
• Jeremiah — 2:10, 2:12, 2:36, 9:19, 14:17, 18:13, 20:11, 24:2, 27:12, 31:16, 47:12
• Lamentations — 5:22
• Ezekiel — 9:9, 16:13, 20:13, 26:7, 27:25, 37:2, 37:10, 40:2, 47:7, 47:9, 47:10
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 8:8, 11:25, 13:2, 13:4, 13:27, 13:31, 14:30
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:31, 3:25, 4:14, 6:14, 7:28, 8:8, 11:25, 13:2, 13:4, 13:31, 14:19
• Joel — 2:11
• Obadiah — 1:2
• Jonah — 4:4, 4:9
• Nahum — 2:2
• Zephaniah — 1:14
• Zechariah — 9:2, 9:5, 9:9, 14:4, 14:14
• Enoch — 25:2, 32:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 2:10, 17:6, 17:23, 18:31, 19:25, 26:22, 27:54
• Mark — 16:4
• Luke — 18:23
• Acts — 6:7
• Revelation — 16:21

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΦΟΔΡΑ.

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.

• ΟΔΡΑ — very, exceedingly, greatly, extremely, mightily, vehemently
• ΣΦΟΔΑ — very, exceedingly, greatly, vehemently, strongly, much
• ΣΦΟΔΡ' — very, exceedingly, greatly, vehemently, intensely, much
• ΣΦΟΔΡΑΔ' — very, greatly, exceedingly, much, vehemently, strongly
• ΣΦΟΔΡΑΝ — very, greatly, exceedingly, vehemently, strongly, much
• ΦΟΔΡΑ — greatly, exceedingly, very much, mightily, vehemently, intensely

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