ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΣ, σπουδαιος
SPOUDAIOS, spoudaios
Sounds Like: spoo-DAI-oss
Translations: diligent, earnest, zealous, eager, serious, important, a diligent one, an earnest one
From the root: ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone or something as diligent, earnest, or zealous. It can also refer to something as important or serious. It is often used to commend a person's effort or attitude.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4705 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to Polycarp — 3:2
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 8:205
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 3 — 1:2
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
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΙ — diligent, zealous, earnest, eager, serious, important, a serious one, an important one
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΝ — diligent, earnest, eager, important, serious, valuable, a diligent thing, an important thing
- 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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