σπουδήspoudḗ
GreekG471012 occurrences (KJV)
"speed", i.e. (by implication) despatch, eagerness, earnestness
KJV renders it: business, (earnest) care(-fulness), diligence, forwardness, haste
Where it appears
- Mark 6:25She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”
- Luke 1:39Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,
- Rom 12:8or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
- Rom 12:11not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
- 2 Cor 7:11For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
- 2 Cor 7:12So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.
- 2 Cor 8:7But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.
- 2 Cor 8:8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
- 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
- Heb 6:11We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
- 2 Pet 1:5Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
- Jude 1:3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.