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ταχύ

tachý · G5035 · Greek · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. quickly, hurriedly, swift, speedy

    Pertaining to a very short extent of time

    Examples

    Matthew 5:25 “Come to good terms with your accuser quickly, while you are with him on the way to court, so that your accuser will not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you will not be thrown into prison.

    Matthew 28:7 “And go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you to Galilee. There you will see Him; behold, I have told you.”

    Matthew 28:8 And they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy, and ran to report to His disciples.

  2. soon, very soon

    Pertaining to a point of time subsequent to another point of time (either an event in the discourse or the time of the discourse itself), with emphasis upon the relatively brief interval between the two points of time

    Examples

    Mark 9:39 But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me.

    Revelation 2:16 ‘Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.

    Revelation 3:11 ‘I am coming quickly; hold firmly to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

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.

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.

In the other Testament 3 words
מָהַר mâhar · H4116 · to act quickly, to hasten, to be fearful
ταχύ (tachý, G5035) serves as the standard Greek equivalent for מָהַר (mâhar, H4116), both denoting speed/haste in action with overlapping semantic range covering 'quickly,' 'hastily,' and 'soon'—the alignment reflects direct translation equivalence across the Hebrew-to-Greek Septuagint rendering tradition.
מְהֵרָה mᵉhêrâh · H4120 · quickly, with haste, soon
Hebrew מְהֵרָה and Greek ταχύ both denote rapid temporal immediacy (quickly, soon, without delay), functioning as adverbial expressions of speed or urgency across their respective corpora with direct translational correspondence in LXX alignment contexts.
מַהֵר mahêr · H4118 · to act quickly, to hasten, to be fearful
מַהֵר (mahêr, H4118) is the primary Hebrew lexeme denoting speed/haste in action or occurrence, serving as the direct cross-linguistic equivalent to ταχύ (tachý, G5035) in Septuagint translation contexts where rapid temporal progression or immediate response is in view.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Quickly, hurriedly, swift, speedy67.110
Matthew 28:7 has the angel tell the women at the tomb, “go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead.”
Soon, very soon67.56
Revelation 22:12 has the Lord say, “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to reward each one as his work deserves.”
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ταχύς tachýs · G5036 · fleet, i.e. prompt or ready · 1×ταχύtachý · G5035ταχέως tachéōs · G5030 · quickly, hurriedly, swift · 10×τάχος táchos · G5034 · a very short while · 7×ταχινός tachinós · G5031 · quickly, hurriedly, swift · 2×τάχιστα táchista · G5033 · most quickly, i.e. as soon as possible · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (neuter of the adjective ταχύς), adverb (from Pindar down), quickly, speedily (wihtout…
(neuter of the adjective ταχύς), adverb (from Pindar down), quickly, speedily (wihtout delay): Mt 5:25; Mt 28:7; Mk 16:8 Rec.; Lk 15:22 L Tr brackets WH; Jn 11:29; ἔρχεσθαι, Rev 2:5 Rec.bez elz, ; Rev 3:11; Rev 11:14; Rev 22:7, Rev 22:12, Rev 22:20; forthwith, i. e. while in the use of my name he is performing mighty works, Mk 9:39.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
A Point of Time with Reference to Other Points of Time: Before, Long Ago, Now, At the Same Time, When, About, After7 occurrencesDuration of Time without Reference to Points or Units of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young5 occurrences

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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