ὀρθῶς
orthōs · G3723 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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correct, correctly
Pertaining to conforming closely to an accepted norm or standard
ExamplesMark 7:35 And his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly.
Luke 7:43 Simon answered and said, “I assume the one for whom he canceled the greater debt.” And He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”
Luke 10:28 And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- יָטַב yâṭab · H3190 · to tend, to adorn, to improve
- Hebrew יָטַב denotes doing something well or rightly with a broad application to moral, practical, and aesthetic dimensions, while Greek ὀρθῶς specifically emphasizes correctness and straightness in manner, both literal and figurative; the terms share core semantic overlap in contexts requiring right action or correct judgment.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Correct, correctly72.13
- ὀρθῶς describes an answer or action judged to be correct, as Jesus affirms the lawyer's summary of the law: “‘You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.’” (Luke 10:28)
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ὀρθός), adverb, rightly: Mk 7:35; Lk 7:43; Lk 10:28; Lk 20:21. (Aeschylus and Herodotus…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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