18 occurrences

'Diligence' in the Bible

May it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, the house of the great God. It is being built with stone blocks and timber is being put in the walls. This work is being done with diligence and is making progress in their hands.

May the God who has set his name there overthrow any king or people who sets his hand to alter [or] to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, issue forth a decree. Let it be done with diligence."

Then Tattenai the governor of the [province] Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates consequently did with diligence what Darius the king ordered.

With this money, then, with diligence you must buy young bulls, young rams, lambs, and their offerings and libations. You must offer them on the altar that is in the house of your God in Jerusalem.

"I, even I, King Artaxerxes, issue forth a decree to all the treasurers who are in [the province] Beyond the River. Whatever the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may ask of you, let it be done with diligence,

All that is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done with diligence for the house of the God of heaven, otherwise wrath will come on the kingdom of the king and his sons.

All who do not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with diligence, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of goods and for imprisonment."

She seeks wool and flax, and she works with the diligence of {her hands}.

For behold how much diligence this very [thing], being grieved according to [the will of] God, has brought about in you: what defense [of yourselves], what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! In everything you have demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

Consequently, even if I wrote to you, it was not because of the one who did wrong or because of the one who had been wronged, but in order that your diligence {on our behalf} might be revealed to you before God.

But just as you excel in everything--in faith and in speaking and in knowledge and with all diligence and in the love from us [that is] in you--so may you excel in this grace also.

I am not saying [this] as a command, but proving the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others.

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Definition
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אדרזדּא 
'adrazda' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

חפשׂ 
Chaphas 
Usage: 23

חרץ חרוּץ 
Charuwts 
Usage: 18

יטב 
Yatab 
Usage: 115

למד 
Lamad 
Usage: 86

מאד 
M@`od 
Usage: 300

מהר מהיר 
Mahiyr 
Usage: 4

משׁמר 
Mishmar 
Usage: 22

נחשׁ 
Nachash 
Usage: 11

קשׁב 
Qesheb 
Usage: 4

שׁחר 
Shachar 
Usage: 12

שׁמע 
Shama` 
Usage: 1158

שׁנן 
Shanan 
Usage: 9

ἀκριβόω 
Akriboo 
Usage: 2

ἀκριβῶς 
Akribos 
Usage: 5

ἐκζητέω 
Ekzeteo 
Usage: 5

ἐξερευνάω 
Exereunao 
Usage: 1

ἐπιμελῶς 
Epimelos 
Usage: 0

ἐπισκοπέω 
Episkopeo 
Usage: 2

ἐργασία 
Ergasia 
Usage: 5

σπουδάζω 
Spoudazo 
Usage: 11

σπουδαῖος 
Spoudaios 
Usage: 1

σπουδαιότερον 
Spoudaioteron 
Usage: 2

σπουδαίως 
Spoudaios 
Usage: 2

σπουδή 
Spoude 
Usage: 12