εὐθύς
euthýs · G2117 · Greek · 62 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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straight, direct
Pertaining to being straight in contrast to what is crooked
ExamplesMatthew 3:3 For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet when he said, “THE VOICE OF ONE CALLING OUT IN THE WILDERNESS, ‘PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT!’”
Mark 1:3 THE VOICE OF ONE CALLING OUT IN THE WILDERNESS, ‘PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT!’”
Luke 3:4 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “THE VOICE OF ONE CALLING OUT IN THE WILDERNESS, ‘PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT!
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just, right, upright
Pertaining to being just and right
ExamplesActs 8:21 “You have no part or share in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.
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right way, correct manner of life, just way of life
(An idiom, literally: a straight road) The right or correct pattern of behavior
ExamplesActs 13:10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop making crooked the straight ways of the Lord?
2 Peter 2:15 abandoning the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;
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immediately, right away, then
A point of time immediately subsequent to a previous point of time (the actual interval of time differs appreciably, depending upon the nature of the events and the manner in which the sequence is interpreted by the writer)
ExamplesMatthew 3:16 After He was baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and settling on Him,
Matthew 13:20 “The one sown with seed on the rocky places, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
Matthew 13:21 yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately he falls away.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὁδόςway, road 1
Second object ofSecond object
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- ποιέωto do, to make 3
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- καρδίαheart 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ὀρθός orthós · G3717 · straight, direct, to live
- Both terms describe straightness in physical and moral dimensions, with ὀρθός emphasizing vertical erectness or perpendicularity (rising upright) and εὐθύς emphasizing horizontal levelness or directness. The overlap is strongest in figurative registers where both can describe moral rectitude or correctness of conduct, though ὀρθός has minimal attestation in the corpus.
In the other Testament 3 words
- יָשָׁר yâshâr · H3477 · straight, "straight way" = safe journey
- Hebrew יָשָׁר denotes both physical straightness and moral uprightness/equity, directly corresponding to Greek εὐθύς's dual literal (level/straight) and figurative (true/upright) semantic range; the pairing represents genuine translation equivalence across both concrete and abstract senses.
- תָּכַן tâkan · H8505 · to measure, to weigh out, to weigh
- תָּכַן (tâkan, H8505) denotes the act of measuring, weighing, or making level/equal (often metaphorically applied to justice or judgment), while εὐθύς (euthýs, G2117) primarily describes the resulting state of straightness or levelness itself; both share the semantic domain of straightness/correctness but differ in aspectual focus (process vs. state).
- מֵישָׁר mêyshâr · H4339 · smooth, smoothness, peace
- Greek εὐθύς (euthýs, G2117) in its adjectival sense 'straight, level, upright' translates Hebrew מֵישָׁר (mêyshâr, H4339) 'level place, uprightness, equity' in contexts describing moral rectitude or physically level ground, sharing the core semantic field of straightness/levelness in both literal and figurative application.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Immediately, right away, then67.53
- In Mark 1:18, when Jesus called Simon and Andrew, “immediately they left their nets and followed Him,” using this adverb for something happening right away.
- Straight, direct79.88
- In Matthew 3:3, quoting Isaiah, it is said, “THE VOICE OF ONE CALLING OUT IN THE WILDERNESS, ‘PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT!'” using this word for a physically straight path.
- Just, right, upright88.17
- In Acts 8:21, Peter tells Simon the sorcerer, “You have no part or share in this matter, for your heart is not right before God,” using this word for moral uprightness.
- Right way, correct manner of life, just way of life88.18
- In Acts 13:10, Paul rebukes Elymas the sorcerer as one who does not cease “to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord,” using this word for the right, just way of living.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon εὐθεῖα, εὐθύ, the Sept. for יָשָׁר (from Pindar down), straight; a. properly, straight,…
a. properly, straight, level: of a way (Mt 3:3); Mk 1:3; Lk 3:4; Acts 9:11; εἰς εὐθεῖαν (L T Tr WH εἰς εὐθείας), namely, ὁδόν (an ellipsis common also in classical Greek cf. Winer's Grammar, § 64, 5), Lk 3:5; εὐθεῖα ὁδός the straight, the right way, is figuratively used of true religion as a rule of life leading to its goal, i. e. to salvation, 2 Pet 2:15; αἱ ὁδοί κυρίου, the right and saving purposes of God, Acts 13:10 (Song of the Three Children, verse 3).
b. tropically, straightforward, upright, true, sincere (as often in secular authors): καρδία, Acts 8:21 (εὐθεῖς τῇ καρδία often in the Psalms, as Ps 7:11; Ps 31:11; ()).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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