παραχρῆμα
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 G3916 appears — 18 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
Matthew 2 verses
- Matthew 21:19 παραχρῆμα adv Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.
- Matthew 21:20 παραχρῆμα adv When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"
Luke 10 verses
- Luke 1:64 παραχρῆμα adv His mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue freed, and he spoke, blessing God.
- Luke 4:39 παραχρῆμα adv He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
- Luke 5:25 παραχρῆμα adv Immediately he rose up before them, and took up that which he was laying on, and departed to his house, glorifying God.
- Luke 8:44 παραχρῆμα adv came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak, and immediately the flow of her blood stopped.
- Luke 8:47 παραχρῆμα adv When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
- Luke 8:55 παραχρῆμα adv Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.
- Luke 13:13 παραχρῆμα adv He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight, and glorified God.
- Luke 18:43 παραχρῆμα adv Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
- Luke 19:11 παραχρῆμα adv As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.
- Luke 22:60 παραχρῆμα adv But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
Acts 6 verses
- Acts 3:7 παραχρῆμα adv He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.
- Acts 5:10 παραχρῆμα adv She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
- Acts 12:23 παραχρῆμα adv Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Acts 13:11 παραχρῆμά adv Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
- Acts 16:26 παραχρῆμα adv Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.
- Acts 16:33 παραχρῆμα adv He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
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.
At its core, παραχρημα (parachrēma) means “immediately.” Its uses cluster heavily in Luke (56% of all occurrences). Spanning 18 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 21:19. Sharing its root, it stands alongside παρα, παραβαινω and παραβαλλω. Dig into 18-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3916 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 →
- 18
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 18 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #664
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 664 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 18 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 18 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 16 verses · 89%
- Gospels 12 verses · 67%
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 13×, Straightway 3×
- American Standard Version: Immediately 18×
- Berean Standard Bible: Immediately 9×, Once 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Immediately 18×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3916 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3916 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3916 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3916 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- immediately, forthwith, instantly
Word origin
Derived from παρα (pará) (G3844) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3916 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παραχρῆμα parachrē̂ma | Adverb | Matthew 21:19 | 17 |
| παραχρῆμά parachrē̂má | Adverb | Acts 13:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3916, 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
- παραβαινω parabaínō G3845 to neglect
- παραβαλλω parabállō G3846 to place beside
- παραβιαζομαι parabiázomai G3849 to compel
- παραβουλευομαι parabouleúomai G3851 to consult wrongly
- παραγγελλω parangéllō G3853 to announce
- παραγινομαι paragínomai G3854 to appear
- παραγω parágō G3855 to pass by
- παραδειγματιζω paradeigmatízō G3856 to make example
- παραδεχομαι paradéchomai G3858 to receive
- παραδιατριβη paradiatribḗ G3859 empty business
- παραδιδωμι paradídōmi G3860 to deliver
- παραδοξος parádoxos G3861 strange
- παραζηλοω parazēlóō G3863 to provoke
- παραθαλασσιος parathalássios G3864 by the sea
- παραθεωρεω paratheōréō G3865 to compare
- παραινεω parainéō G3867 to exhort
- παραιτεομαι paraitéomai G3868 to beg pardon
- παρακαθιζω parakathízō G3869 to sit beside
- παρακαλεω parakaléō G3870 to call beside
- παρακαλυπτω parakalýptō G3871 to cover up
- παρακαταθηκη parakatathḗkē G3872 deposit
- παρακειμαι parákeimai G3873 to lie beside
- παρακολουθεω parakolouthéō G3877 to follow after
- παρακουω parakoúō G3878 to disobey
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 78 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word παραχρημα appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 5 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Numbers 6:9 παραχρῆμα
- 2 Samuel 3:12 παραχρῆμα
- Job 39:30 παραχρῆμα
- Psalms 39:16 παραχρῆμα
- Isaiah 29:5 παραχρῆμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3916) 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.
- Numbers 6:9 παραχρῆμα "If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.
- Numbers 12:4 παραχρῆμα Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out you three to the tent of meeting. They three came out.
- 2 Samuel 3:12 παραχρῆμα Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying [also], Make your league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring about all Israel to you.
- Job 39:30 παραχρῆμα His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."
- Job 40:12 παραχρῆμα Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
- Psalms 39:16 παραχρῆμα
- Isaiah 29:5 παραχρῆμα But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the awesome ones as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be in an instant suddenly.
- Isaiah 30:13 παραχρῆμα therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3916) 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.
