Strong G4704σπουδάζω
be eager
- Transliteration
- spoudazō
- Pronunciation
- spoo-dad'-zo
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G4710; to use speed that is to make effort be prompt or earnest: - do (give) diligence be diligent (forward) endeavour labour study.
Detailed definition
σπουδάζω
(σπουδή), [in LXX chiefly for בָּהַל;]
to make haste; hence, to be zealous or eager, to give diligence: with inf. (see M, Pr., 205 f.), Gal.2:10, Eph.4:3, 1Th.2:17, 2Ti.2:15 4:9 4:21, Tit.3:12, Heb.4:11, 2Pe.1:10 3:14; with accusative and inf. (on this construction see Mayor in l; MM, xxiii), 2Pe.1:15 (for other constructions see LS, see word).†
(AS)
(σπουδή), [in LXX chiefly for בָּהַל;]
to make haste; hence, to be zealous or eager, to give diligence: with inf. (see M, Pr., 205 f.), Gal.2:10, Eph.4:3, 1Th.2:17, 2Ti.2:15 4:9 4:21, Tit.3:12, Heb.4:11, 2Pe.1:10 3:14; with accusative and inf. (on this construction see Mayor in l; MM, xxiii), 2Pe.1:15 (for other constructions see LS, see word).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4704 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- endeavour3
- diligence2
- diligent2
- be1
- give1
- i1
- labour1
- study1
First verses
- Galatians 2:10Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
- Ephesians 4:3Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:17But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
- 2 Timothy 2:15Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
- 2 Timothy 4:9Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
- 2 Timothy 4:21Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
- Titus 3:12When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
- Hebrews 4:11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
- 2 Peter 1:10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
- 2 Peter 1:15Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
- 2 Peter 3:14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
σπουδάζω,
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1143, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 471 (Lyric poetry))], etc.: Attic dialectfuture -άσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 3e, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.213)], later -άσω [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.5.8, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.58, etc.)]: aorist ἐσπούδασα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 507, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 114e)]: perfect ἐσπούδακα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 694, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 236b, etc.)]:—middle, future see above:—passive, future σπουδασθήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.13)]: aorist ἐσπουδάσθην [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.3.15, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 24)]: perfect ἐσπούδασμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 219e (see. below):)]
I intransitive,
I to be busy, eager to do a thing, with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1143, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 817, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 293a, etc.)]; σπούδασον ἐλθεῖν.. ταχέως make haste.. , [NT (NT.2Tim.4.9)]; ὅτ᾽ ἐσπούδαζες ἄρχειν wast eager to rule, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 337 (troch.))]: with participle, ἐσπ. διδάσκων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 9.1: frequently σ. περί τινος or τι, [prev. author] “Mem.” 1.3.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 330c, etc.; ὑπέρ τινος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.77; εἰς τὰ σά [prev. author] 21.195; πρός τι [prev. author] 22.76; ἐπί τισι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.3.11, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.2: with _dative_, σ. γάμῳ 5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 2.3)]; σ. ὅπως.. endeavour that.. , [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.12, “SIG” 312.10 (Samos, 4th c.BC): _absolutely_, ἐσπουδακυῖα)] in haste, hurriedly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 572)]; ἐσπουδακώς eagerly, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 562.)]
I.b with accusative et infinitive, σπουδάσαντες τοῦτ᾽ αὐτοῖς παραγενέσθαι [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus2.141d, cf. NT.2Pet.1.15, “BGU” 1080.14 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]
I.2 of persons, σ. πρός τινα pay him serious attention, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 510c, etc.; εἴς τινα “Anthologia Graeca” 9.422 (1st c.AD: Apollonides Epigrammaticus))]; σ. περί τινα to be anxious for his success, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.13, etc. (distinguished from πρός τινα by 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sol.” 10); περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 4.1; ὑπὲρ τῶν οἰκετῶν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.17; ὑπέρ τινος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.213, etc.)]; σ. τινί be a partisan or backer of, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Artoxerxes” 21, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.11.27, “PGiss.” 71.6 (2nd c.AD))]; ἀπό τινος [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.27.6.)]
I.3 to be serious or earnest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 813)]; opposed to σκώπτειν καὶ κωμῳδεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pl.” 557; frequently in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, σπουδάζει ταῦτα ἢ παίζε; “Grg.” 481b, etc.)]; ἐσπούδακας, ὅτι ἐπελαβόμην ἐρεσχηλῶν σ; did you take it seriously, that I..? [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Phdr.” 236b; σπουδάζοντα τοῖς πράγμασι τοῖς ὀνόμασι παίζειν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Lysia” 14)]; ἐσπουδάκατον they have worked hard, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 694)]; μάλα ἐσπουδακότι τῷ προσώπῳ with a very grave face, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.17.)]
I.4 study, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.7.2)]; lecture, teach, [Refs ([prev. work] 1.21.5.)]
II transitive,
II.1 with accusative of things, do anything hastily or earnestly, be earnest about, τὸ αὑτοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 507; τὰς περὶ τὸ μανθάνειν ἡδονάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 114e, etc.)]; opposed to παρέργοις χρῆσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Euthd.” 273d, compare “Ti.” 21c; τὰ ἑαυτοῦ ἡδέα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.17; σ. τοῦτο, ὅπως.. [prev. author] “Eq.” 11.10:)] —passive, σπουδάζεταί τι is zealously pursued, πᾶν ὅ τι σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 761; σ. ἀγών 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 10.3)]; χρήματα μετὰ πολλῆς δαπάνης σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 485e)]; ἡ κωμῳδία διὰ τὸ μὴ σπουδάζεσθαι.. ἔλαθεν because it was not taken up seriously, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1449b1)]; οὐ πάνυ σπουδάζεται ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν is not much valued, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cont.” 11)]: especially frequently in perfect participle, πᾶσα ἡ τοιαύτη σπουδὴ οὐκ ἐπὶ τούτοις ἐστὶν ἐσπουδασμένη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 219e)]; προοίμια θαυμαστῶς ἐσπουδασμένα elaborately worked up, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 722e, compare 659e)]; so τὰ μάλιστα ἐσπ. σῖτα καὶ ποτά the choicest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.38)]; τὰ ἐσπ., of writing tablets, the best quality, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.9.7 (also κλίνας καὶ δίφρους καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ σπουδαζόμενα [prev. work] 5.3.2))]; εἰ ταῦτ᾽ ἐσπουδασμένα ἐν γράμμασιν ἐτέθη if those pains were seriously bestowed on letters, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 344c; αἱ ἐσπουδασμέναι παιδιαί 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1371a3, compare “Pol.” 1336a34.)]
II.2 passive, of persons, to be treated with respect, opposed to καταφρονεῖσθαι, [Refs ([prev. author] “Rh.” 1380a26)]; to be courted, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.3.15, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 5, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 5.75)]; of women, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cimon” 4, “Art.” 26.)]
II.2.b in LXX, trouble, disturb any one, [LXX (LXX.Job.22.10, 23.16.)]
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1143, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 471 (Lyric poetry))], etc.: Attic dialectfuture -άσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 3e, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.213)], later -άσω [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.5.8, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.58, etc.)]: aorist ἐσπούδασα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 507, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 114e)]: perfect ἐσπούδακα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 694, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 236b, etc.)]:—middle, future see above:—passive, future σπουδασθήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.13)]: aorist ἐσπουδάσθην [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.3.15, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 24)]: perfect ἐσπούδασμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 219e (see. below):)]
I intransitive,
I to be busy, eager to do a thing, with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1143, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 817, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 293a, etc.)]; σπούδασον ἐλθεῖν.. ταχέως make haste.. , [NT (NT.2Tim.4.9)]; ὅτ᾽ ἐσπούδαζες ἄρχειν wast eager to rule, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 337 (troch.))]: with participle, ἐσπ. διδάσκων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 9.1: frequently σ. περί τινος or τι, [prev. author] “Mem.” 1.3.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 330c, etc.; ὑπέρ τινος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.77; εἰς τὰ σά [prev. author] 21.195; πρός τι [prev. author] 22.76; ἐπί τισι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.3.11, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.2: with _dative_, σ. γάμῳ 5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 2.3)]; σ. ὅπως.. endeavour that.. , [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.12, “SIG” 312.10 (Samos, 4th c.BC): _absolutely_, ἐσπουδακυῖα)] in haste, hurriedly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 572)]; ἐσπουδακώς eagerly, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 562.)]
I.b with accusative et infinitive, σπουδάσαντες τοῦτ᾽ αὐτοῖς παραγενέσθαι [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus2.141d, cf. NT.2Pet.1.15, “BGU” 1080.14 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]
I.2 of persons, σ. πρός τινα pay him serious attention, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 510c, etc.; εἴς τινα “Anthologia Graeca” 9.422 (1st c.AD: Apollonides Epigrammaticus))]; σ. περί τινα to be anxious for his success, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.13, etc. (distinguished from πρός τινα by 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sol.” 10); περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 4.1; ὑπὲρ τῶν οἰκετῶν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.17; ὑπέρ τινος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.213, etc.)]; σ. τινί be a partisan or backer of, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Artoxerxes” 21, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.11.27, “PGiss.” 71.6 (2nd c.AD))]; ἀπό τινος [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.27.6.)]
I.3 to be serious or earnest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 813)]; opposed to σκώπτειν καὶ κωμῳδεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pl.” 557; frequently in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, σπουδάζει ταῦτα ἢ παίζε; “Grg.” 481b, etc.)]; ἐσπούδακας, ὅτι ἐπελαβόμην ἐρεσχηλῶν σ; did you take it seriously, that I..? [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Phdr.” 236b; σπουδάζοντα τοῖς πράγμασι τοῖς ὀνόμασι παίζειν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Lysia” 14)]; ἐσπουδάκατον they have worked hard, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 694)]; μάλα ἐσπουδακότι τῷ προσώπῳ with a very grave face, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.17.)]
I.4 study, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.7.2)]; lecture, teach, [Refs ([prev. work] 1.21.5.)]
II transitive,
II.1 with accusative of things, do anything hastily or earnestly, be earnest about, τὸ αὑτοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 507; τὰς περὶ τὸ μανθάνειν ἡδονάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 114e, etc.)]; opposed to παρέργοις χρῆσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Euthd.” 273d, compare “Ti.” 21c; τὰ ἑαυτοῦ ἡδέα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.17; σ. τοῦτο, ὅπως.. [prev. author] “Eq.” 11.10:)] —passive, σπουδάζεταί τι is zealously pursued, πᾶν ὅ τι σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 761; σ. ἀγών 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 10.3)]; χρήματα μετὰ πολλῆς δαπάνης σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 485e)]; ἡ κωμῳδία διὰ τὸ μὴ σπουδάζεσθαι.. ἔλαθεν because it was not taken up seriously, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1449b1)]; οὐ πάνυ σπουδάζεται ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν is not much valued, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cont.” 11)]: especially frequently in perfect participle, πᾶσα ἡ τοιαύτη σπουδὴ οὐκ ἐπὶ τούτοις ἐστὶν ἐσπουδασμένη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 219e)]; προοίμια θαυμαστῶς ἐσπουδασμένα elaborately worked up, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 722e, compare 659e)]; so τὰ μάλιστα ἐσπ. σῖτα καὶ ποτά the choicest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.38)]; τὰ ἐσπ., of writing tablets, the best quality, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.9.7 (also κλίνας καὶ δίφρους καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ σπουδαζόμενα [prev. work] 5.3.2))]; εἰ ταῦτ᾽ ἐσπουδασμένα ἐν γράμμασιν ἐτέθη if those pains were seriously bestowed on letters, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 344c; αἱ ἐσπουδασμέναι παιδιαί 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1371a3, compare “Pol.” 1336a34.)]
II.2 passive, of persons, to be treated with respect, opposed to καταφρονεῖσθαι, [Refs ([prev. author] “Rh.” 1380a26)]; to be courted, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.3.15, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 5, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 5.75)]; of women, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cimon” 4, “Art.” 26.)]
II.2.b in LXX, trouble, disturb any one, [LXX (LXX.Job.22.10, 23.16.)]