τάχος
quickness
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5034 appears in the Book of Acts — 3 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 12:7 τάχει n dat sg neut And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his hands.
- Acts 22:18 τάχει n dat sg neut and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.'
- Acts 25:4 τάχει n dat sg neut However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.
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.
ταχος (táchos) is a Greek noun most often rendered “quickness.” Scripture first uses it in Luke 18:8. It turns up in 7 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Acts, which alone accounts for 43% of its uses. It clusters with ταχυς, ταχα and ταχεως under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5034 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 3 verses 43%
- Revelation 2 verses 29%
- Luke 1 verse 14%
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 7 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 57%
- Johannine 2 verses · 29%
- Revelation 2 verses · 29%
- Gospels 1 verse · 14%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 14%
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: Quickly 1×, Shortly 1×, Speedily 1×
- American Standard Version: Quickly 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Soon 4×, Quickly 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Haste 3×, Soon 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5034 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5034 across 6 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5034 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5034 across 8 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.
- quickness, speed
Word origin
Derived from ταχυς (tachýs) (G5036) — quick.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5034, 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
- ταχα tácha G5029 perhaps
- ταχεως tachéōs G5030 quickly
- ταχιον táchion G5032 more swiftly
- ταχιστα táchista G5033 very quickly
- ταχυ tachý G5035 quickly
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ταχος appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 15 verses in 10 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 15
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 32:7 τάχος
- Numbers 17:11 τάχος
- Deuteronomy 7:4 τάχος
- Joshua 8:18 τάχος
- Judges 2:23 τάχος
- 1 Kings 22:9 τάχος
- 2 Chronicles 18:8 τάχος
- Psalms 6:11 τάχος
- Isaiah 5:19 τάχος
- Daniel 9:21 τάχος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5034) 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.
- Exodus 32:7 τάχος Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
- Numbers 17:11 τάχος Thus did Moses: as Yahweh commanded him, so did he.
- Deuteronomy 7:4 τάχος For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
- Deuteronomy 7:22 τάχος Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
- Deuteronomy 9:12 τάχος Yahweh said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
- Joshua 8:18 τάχος Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
- Joshua 8:19 τάχος The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.
- Joshua 10:6 τάχος The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Don't slack your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.
- Judges 2:23 τάχος So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
- 1 Kings 22:9 τάχος Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.
- 2 Chronicles 18:8 τάχος Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
- Psalms 6:11 τάχος
- Psalms 147:4 τάχος He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.
- Isaiah 5:19 τάχος Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, That we may know it!"
- Daniel 9:21 τάχος yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5034) 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.
