ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΥΣ, σπουδαιους
SPOUDAIOUS, spoudaious
Sounds Like: SPOO-dah-yoos
Translations: diligent, earnest, zealous, eager, important, serious, diligent ones, earnest ones, important ones
From the root: ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone or something as diligent, earnest, zealous, or important. It can refer to a person who is eager and active in their work or a matter that is of great significance. It is used here in the accusative plural, indicating it is the direct object of a verb or the object of a preposition, referring to multiple masculine or common gender entities.
Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4704 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Justin Martyr
- Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:6
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
- 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
- ΣΠΟΥΔΑΙΩΣ — diligently, earnestly, eagerly, zealously, carefully, with haste
- ΣΠΟΥΔΕΟΣ — diligent, zealous, earnest, eager, careful, assiduous
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