adverb
sfodrōs
Strong’sG4971
exceedingly
stem sfodrō-once in the New Testamentnever changes form
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
σφοδρῶς
adv.,G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4971 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsfod-roce'
very much
Fromadverb from the same as G4970;
King Jamesexceedingly.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also ός, όν Refs 5th c.BC+:— vehement, violent, excessive (used by Refs 8th c.BC+ adverb, see.Refs 5th c.BC+; καῦμα, γυμνάσιον, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἱ σ. ἡδοναί Refs; ἀλγήματα τοῦ σώματος πάνυ σ. Refs 4th c.BC+; δίψος σ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; δίψα σ. Refs 4th c.BC+; ταραχὴ-οτέρα Refs 1st c.BC+; τὸ σ. vehemence, excess, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of men, violent, impetuous, νέος καὶ σ., σ. καὶ νέος, Refs; φιλότιμοι καὶ σ. Refs; σ. ἐφ᾽ ὅτι ὁρμήσειενRefs 5th c.BC+; also, active, zealous, ὑπηρέται Refs; strong, robust, ἡ γεωργία σ. τὸ σῶμα παρέχει Refs
II adverb -ῶς vehemently, etc., μάλα σ. ἐλάαν Refs 8th c.BC+; πάνυ σ. NT+5th c.BC+; θερμαίνοντες ἢ ψύχοντες σ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; but in Attic dialect σφόδρα (which see) is the common adverb: comparative -ότερονLXX+2nd c.AD+ -οτέρως Refs 4th c.BC+: superlative -ότατονRefs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
sfodrōs1×
Acts 27:18sfodrōs de cheimazorōntoiu nu ta hexēs ekbolan …We were tossed so violently that the next day the men …