euthys · immediately, straight

What it means

euthys (εὐθύς) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “immediately, straight”.

Straight, direct; as an adverb, immediately, at once.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Without bends, not turning aside.
2. Without any time passing: what follows happens right after.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

As an adjective, straight, right; as an adverb, at once, immediately, without delay. The adverb is characteristic of Mark, who uses it many times to link events. Of the same group are εὐθέως (‘at once’) and εὐθύνω (‘make straight’).

• “At once”: one event after another in Mark Mark 1:10Mark 5:42Mark 10:52
• “He went out at once” John 13:30
• “Make his paths straight” Mark 1:3Luke 3:4
• A right heart; the straight ways of the Lord Acts 8:21Acts 13:10
• The street called Straight Acts 9:11

How we translate it

“At once” 51 times, most of them in Mark; the repetition is kept, because it is a feature of the original’s style. This edition’s glossary sets euthys, eutheōs = ‘at once’ and keeps ‘immediately’ for parachrēma. As an adjective, “straight” (7) and “right” (Acts 8:21), and in Acts 9:11 the name of the street, “Straight”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• once ×51
• straight ×7
• right ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×6
• Mark×42
• Luke×3
• John×3
• Acts×4
• 2 Peter×1

• Matthew 3:3

  For this is the one spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, when he says, “A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

• Matthew 3:16

  And after being immersed, Jesus at once went up from the water; and look, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove and coming upon him.

• Matthew 13:20

  And the one sown on the rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy;

• Matthew 13:21

  yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived; and when affliction or persecution comes on account of the word, at once he falls away.

• Matthew 14:27

  But at once Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take courage; it is I; do not be afraid.”

• Matthew 21:3

  And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and at once he will send them.”

• Mark 1:3

  a voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

• Mark 1:10

  And at once, as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to him.

• Mark 1:12

  And at once the Spirit drives him out into the wilderness.

• Mark 1:18

  And at once they left the nets and followed him.

• Mark 1:20

  And at once he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, they went away after him.

• Mark 1:21

  And they go into Capernaum. And at once on the Sabbath he was teaching in the synagogue.

• Mark 1:23

  And at once there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

• Mark 1:28

  And the report about him went out at once everywhere into all the surrounding region of Galilee.

• Mark 1:29

  And at once, having gone out of the synagogue, they went into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

• Mark 1:30

  Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever, and at once they tell him about her.

• Mark 1:42

  And at once the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.

• Mark 1:43

  And sternly warning him, he sent him away at once,

• Mark 2:8

  And at once Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they were reasoning like this within themselves, says to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

• Mark 2:12

  And he got up, and at once picking up the mat, he went out before all of them, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

• Mark 3:6

  And the Pharisees went out and at once held a council with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

• Mark 4:5

  And other seed fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and at once it sprang up, because it did not have depth of soil.

• Mark 4:15

  And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown; and when they hear, at once Satan comes and takes away the word that has been sown in them.

• Mark 4:16

  And likewise these are the ones sown on the rocky ground, who, when they hear the word, at once receive it with joy;

• Mark 4:17

  and they have no root in themselves, but are short-lived; then, when affliction or persecution comes on account of the word, at once they fall away.

• Mark 4:29

  But when the grain permits, at once he sends in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

• Mark 5:2

  And when he had come out of the boat, at once a man with an unclean spirit met him from the tombs.

• Mark 5:29

  And at once the source of her bleeding dried up, and she knew in her body that she was healed of the affliction.

• Mark 5:30

  And at once Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and was saying, “Who touched my garments?”

• Mark 5:42

  And at once the girl got up and was walking; for she was twelve years old. And at once they were overcome with great amazement.

• Mark 6:25

  And at once coming in with haste to the king, she asked, saying, “I want you to give me right now, on a platter, the head of John the Immerser.”

• Mark 6:27

  And at once the king sent an executioner and ordered him to bring his head. And he went and beheaded him in the prison

• Mark 6:45

  And at once he made his disciples get into the boat and go ahead to the other side, toward Bethsaida, while he dismisses the crowd.

• Mark 6:50

  for they all saw him and were terrified. But he at once spoke with them and says to them, “Take courage; I am he; do not be afraid.”

• Mark 6:54

  And when they got out of the boat, at once people recognized him

• Mark 7:25

  But at once a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard about him, came and fell at his feet.

• Mark 8:10

  And at once getting into the boat with his disciples, he came to the district of Dalmanutha.

• Mark 9:15

  And at once all the crowd, seeing him, were greatly amazed, and running up, they were greeting him.

• Mark 9:20

  And they brought him to him. And when the spirit saw him, at once it convulsed the boy, and falling on the ground he was rolling about, foaming.

• Mark 9:24

  At once the father of the child cried out and was saying, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

And 19 more times.