εὐθέως
immediately
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G2112 appears in the Book of Acts — 10 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
- Acts 9:18 εὐθέως adv Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.
- Acts 9:20 εὐθέως adv Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
- Acts 9:34 εὐθέως adv Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!" Immediately he arose.
- Acts 10:16 εὐθὺς adv This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.
- Acts 12:10 εὐθέως adv When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.
- Acts 16:10 εὐθέως adv When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Gospel to them.
- Acts 17:10 εὐθέως adv The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
- Acts 17:14 εὐθέως adv Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
- Acts 21:30 εὐθέως adv All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
- Acts 22:29 εὐθέως adv Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ευθεως — transliterated euthéōs — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “immediately.” Where the King James Version keeps “straightway,” modern versions use “immediately” — see the renderings breakdown. With 84 verses in 9 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Mark (49% of all occurrences). Debuting at Matthew 3:16, it then recurs through the corpus. See the sense tree, 84-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2112 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 84
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 84 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #200
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 200 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 84 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 84 distinct verses.
- Gospels 70 verses · 83%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 17 verses · 20%
- Johannine 7 verses · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 2%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 1%
- Revelation 1 verse · 1%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Immediately 33×, Straightway 30×, Forthwith 7×
- American Standard Version: Straightway 59×, Immediately 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Immediately 26×, Once 20×, Soon as 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Immediately 84×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2112 across 78 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2112 across 75 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2112 across 73 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 10 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2112 across 86 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- straightway, immediately, forthwith
Word origin
Derived from ευθυς (euthýs) (G2117) — straight.
Adverb from G2117 ; directly that is at once or soon : - anon as soon as forthwith immediately shortly straightway.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2112 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εὐθὺς euthỳs | Adverb | Matthew 3:16 | 52 |
| εὐθέως euthéōs | Adverb | Matthew 4:20 | 31 |
| Εὐθέως Euthéōs | Adverb | Matthew 24:29 | 1 |
| εὐθύς euthýs | Adverb | John 13:30 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2112, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- ευθυδρομεω euthydroméō G2113 to run straight
- ευθυνω euthýnō G2116 to make straight
- ευθυτης euthýtēs G2118 righteousness
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ευθεως appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Joshua 6:11 εὐθέως
- Job 5:3 εὐθέως
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2112) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Joshua 6:11 εὐθέως So he caused the ark of Yahweh to compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
- Job 5:3 εὐθέως I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2112) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
