Strong's G4710 σπουδή (spoude)

And thus shall ye eat it: your loins girded, and your sandals on your feet, and your staffs in your hands, and ye shall eat it in haste. It is a Passover to the Lord.

And the Egyptians constrained the people, so that they cast them out of the land with haste, for they said, We all shall die.

Thou shalt not eat leaven with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread with it, bread of affliction, because ye came forth out of Egypt in haste; that ye may remember the day of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

When the hoofs of the horse were entangled, His mighty ones earnestly hastened

And David said to Ahimelech, See if there is here under thy hand spear or sword, for I have not brought in my hand my sword or my weapons, for the word of the king was urgent.

Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

And their days were consumed in vanity, And their years with anxiety.

We assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but behold anxiety.

Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, even distress at noonday: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety.

And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased Beyond the iniquities of Sodom, The city that was overthrown very suddenly, And none labored against her with their hands.

pride has sprung up, and will break the staff of the wicked one, and that not with tumult, nor with haste.

Then Arioch in haste brought in Daniel before the king, and said to him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judea, who will declare the interpretation to the king.

Then the king arose very early in the morning, and came in haste to the den of lions.

But rumors and anxieties out of the east and from the north shall trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy many.

And their silver and their gold shall in nowise be able to rescue them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will bring a speedy destruction on all them that inhabit the land.

And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.

And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;

Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.

And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Then the king wrote back again to Rehum the storywriter, to Beltethmus, to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and dwellers in Samaria and Syria and Phoenicia, after this manner;

building a house unto the Lord, great and new, of hewn and costly stones, and the timber already laid upon the walls.

Afterward departed he in all haste, and returned unto Antioch, where he found Philip to be master of the city: so he fought against him, and took the city by force.

but missing his stroke through haste, the multitude also rushing within the doors, he ran boldly up to the wall, and cast himself down manfully among the thickest of them.

The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days.

The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn.

The king, receiving him, was astonished at his unwonted exit; and, overwhelmed with a spirit of oblivion about everything, inquired the object of this earnest preparation.

Whom men could not honor in presence, because they dwelt far off, They took the counterfeit of his visage from far, And made an express image of a king whom they honored, To the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present.

How that having given them leave to depart, And sent them hastily away, They would repent and pursue them.

To slip upon a pavement is better than to slip with the tongue: So the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.

A prayer out of a poor man’s mouth reacheth to the ears of God, And his judgment cometh speedily.

Unless a man hold himself diligently in the fear of the Lord, His house shall soon be overthrown.

A present remedy of all is a mist coming speedily: A dew coming after heat refresheth.