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Koine Greek wordlink #140623

SR GNT 2Tim 4:9 σπούδασον (spoudason) ‘be_earnest to come to me’ Strongs=47040 Lemma=spoudazō
Word role=verb mood=imperative tense=aorist voice=active person=2nd number=singular
Year=66 AD

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Other uses (3) of identical word form σπούδασον (V-MAA2..S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘σπούδασον’ (V-MAA2..S) is always and only glossed as ‘be_earnest’.

2Tim 2:15 ‘be_earnest yourself approved to present’ SR GNT 2Tim 2:15 word 1

2Tim 4:21 ‘be_earnest before winter to come’ SR GNT 2Tim 4:21 word 1

Tit 3:12 ‘you or Tuⱪikos be_earnest to come to me’ SR GNT Tit 3:12 word 8

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘spoudazō’ have 6 different glosses: ‘I will_be being_earnest’, ‘I was_earnest’, ‘we may be_earnest’, ‘we were_earnest’, ‘be_earnest’, ‘being_earnest’.

Greek words (3) other than σπούδασον (V-MAA2..S) with a gloss related to ‘be_earnest’

HEB 4:11 σπουδάσωμεν (spoudasōmen) V-SAA1..P ‘we may be_earnest therefore to come_in into’ SR GNT Heb 4:11 word 1

2PET 1:10 σπουδάσατε (spoudasate) V-MAA2..P ‘therefore rather brothers be_earnest confirmed of you_all the’ SR GNT 2Pet 1:10 word 4

2PET 3:14 σπουδάσατε (spoudasate) V-MAA2..P ‘beloved these things expecting be_earnest spotless and blameless’ SR GNT 2Pet 3:14 word 5

Key: V=verb MAA2..P=imperative,aorist,active,2nd person plural MAA2..S=imperative,aorist,active,2nd person singular SAA1..P=subjunctive,aorist,active,1st person plural