Spoudazo means “use speed” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4704 — mitstseirah (“little”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4704 σπουδάζω (spoudazo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. spoudazo (spou-dad'-zo) v. 1. to use speed, i.e. to make effort, be prompt or earnest [from G4710] It has 21 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include do, diligent, and make. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
spoudazo (spou-dad'-zo) v. 1. to use speed, i.e. to make effort, be prompt or earnest [from G4710] KJV: do (give) diligence, be diligent (forward), endeavour, labour, study Root(s): G4710
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4704. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
be eager
Usage: 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)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render spoudazo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4704 (σπουδάζω) appears 10 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
11 indexed usages in New Testament.
Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
But 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.
7 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Now when the evening was come, his servants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed the waiters from the presence of his lord; and they went to their beds: for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.
Now when the men of her city heard her voice, they made haste to go down to the gate of their city, and they called the elders of the city.
When they had received this letter, they were not forward to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy God, and the law of God.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4704.
Yet now that pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled.
For even when I remember, I am alarmed, And pains seize my flesh.
Therefore snares have compassed thee, And disastrous war has troubled thee.
And the Almighty has troubled me.
But if I had gone with scorners, And if too my foot has hastened to deceit
Observe the commandment of the king, And that because of the word of the oath of God.
Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hastened that I might not see.
Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
But 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.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Now when the evening was come, his servants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed the waiters from the presence of his lord; and they went to their beds: for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.
Now when the men of her city heard her voice, they made haste to go down to the gate of their city, and they called the elders of the city.
When they had received this letter, they were not forward to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy God, and the law of God.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4704, grouped by book.
Spoudazo (Strong's G4704) is a Greek word most simply glossed "use speed". spoudazo (spou-dad'-zo) v. 1. to use speed, i.e. to make effort, be prompt or earnest [from G4710]
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G4704 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4704 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as do, diligent, and make. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 7 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4704, with linked reader references where each row is available.