Strong's #4710: spoude (pronounced spoo-day')

from 4692; "speed", i.e. (by implication) despatch, eagerness, earnestness:--business, (earnest) care(-fulness), diligence, forwardness, haste.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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spoudē

1) haste, with haste

2) earnestness, diligence

2a) earnestness in accomplishing, promoting, or striving after anything

2b) to give all diligence, interest one' s self most earnestly

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G4692

Citing in TDNT: 7:559, 1069

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Mark 6:25: "she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked,"
Luke 1:39: "the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah;"
Romans 12:8: "simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness."
Romans 12:11: "Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;"
2 Corinthians 7:11: "sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea,"
2 Corinthians 7:12: "that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God"
2 Corinthians 8:7: "knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love"
2 Corinthians 8:8: "but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the"
2 Corinthians 8:16: "which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus"
Hebrews 6:11: "do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope"
2 Peter 1:5: "beside this, giving all diligence, add to your"
Jude 1:3: "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the"