εὐθής
upright, straight
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where εὐθής appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 42 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 17:6 εὐθής And in those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
- 1 Samuel 29:6 εὐθής And Anchus called David, and said to him, As the Lord lives, you are right and approved in my eyes, and so is your going out and your coming in with me in the army, and I have not found any evil to charge against you from the day that you came to me until this day: but you are not approved in the eyes of the lords.
- 2 Samuel 1:18 εὐθής And he gave orders to teach it the sons of Juda: behold, it is written in the book of Right.
- 1 Kings 11:33 εὐθής Because he forsook me, and sacrificed to Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, and to the idols of Moab, and to their king the abomination of the children of Ammon, and he walked not in my ways, to do that which was right before me, as David his father did.
- 2 Kings 10:3 εὐθής do you⌃ accordingly look out the best and fit among your master's sons, and set him on the throne of his father, and fight for the house of your master.
- 1 Chronicles 13:4 εὐθής And all the congregation said that they would do thus; for the saying was right in the eyes of all the people.
- 2 Chronicles 14:1 εὐθής And Abia died with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In the days of Asa the land of Juda had rest ten years.
- Psalms 24:8 εὐθής Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he instruct sinners in the way.
- Proverbs 21:29 εὐθής An ungodly man impudently withstands with his face; but the upright man himself understands his ways.
- Ecclesiastes 7:29 εὐθής which my soul sought after, but I found not: for I have found one man of a thousand; but a woman in all these I have not found.
- Jeremiah 41:15 εὐθής And this day they turned to do that which was right in my sight, to proclaim every one the release of his neighbor; and they had concluded a covenant before me, in the house whereon my name is called.
About this word
About this word
εὐθής (euthḗs), “upright, straight,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 42 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →