ΚΑΤΑΣΠΕΥΔΟΥΣΑ, κατασπευδουσα
KATASPEUDOUSA, kataspeudousa
Sounds Like: kah-tah-SPEV-doo-sah
Translations: hastening, speeding up, accelerating, a hastening one, she who hastens
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΣΠΕΥΔΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'hastening' or 'speeding up'. It describes an action that is currently happening or ongoing. It is a compound word formed from the preposition κατά (kata), meaning 'down' or 'against' but here intensifying, and the verb σπεύδω (speudō), meaning 'to hasten' or 'to urge on'. Thus, it implies a strong or urgent hastening.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Feminine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G2700 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Sirach — 28:11
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Sirach — 28:11
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΣΠΕΥΔΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΣΠΕΥΔΕΙ — he/she/it hastens, he/she/it hurries, he/she/it rushes
- ΚΑΤΑΣΠΕΥΔΟΜΕΝΗ — being hastened, being hurried, being rushed, being pressed on
- ΚΑΤΑΣΠΕΥΔΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ — being hurried, being rushed, those being hurried, those being rushed
- ΚΑΤΑΣΠΕΥΔΟΝΤΑΣ — hastening, rushing, pressing on, urging on, those who are hastening, those who are rushing, those who are pressing on, those who are urging on
- ΚΑΤΑΣΠΕΥΔΩ — to hasten, to hurry, to rush, to press on, to be eager
- ΚΑΤΑΣΠΕΥΣΑΙ — to hasten, to hurry, to speed up, to press on
- ΚΑΤΑΣΠΕΥΣΑΤΕ — Hurry, hasten, make haste
- ΚΑΤΑΣΠΕΥΣΟΝ — hasten, make haste, hurry, speed up
- ΚΑΤΕΣΠΕΥΔΕ — hasten, hurry, urge on, press on, be eager, be urgent
- ΚΑΤΕΣΠΕΥΔΕΝ — he/she/it hurried, he/she/it hastened, he/she/it urged on
- ΚΑΤΕΣΠΕΥΣΑΝ — they hurried, they rushed, they hastened, they urged on
- ΚΑΤΕΣΠΕΥΣΕΝ — hastened, hurried, rushed, made haste
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