Lexicon
ἐξαυτῆς
exautēs
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G:ADV Greek

immediately

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exautes marks an action or event as occurring without delay in the Bible.

Across the supplied verses, the adverb marks actions and events as occurring without delay: people send, arrive, intervene, make a request, or anticipate sending promptly. The same temporal force appears both for decisive responses to a situation and for an event arriving at a particular moment.

Senses in use

  1. Prompt action or response · dominant

    In Acts 10:33 the form accompanies sending after an invitation, while in Acts 21:32 it accompanies the officer's taking soldiers and running down to stop a beating. Acts 23:30 similarly places it with sending a man after a plot was disclosed, and Mark 6:25 places it with the woman's hasty approach and request; in these verses the APB renders the clauses with “Immediately” or “immediately.”

  2. An event occurring at that moment · common

    In Acts 11:11 the form marks the arrival of three men at the house at the moment being described; the APB renders the clause “at that very moment.” Philippians 2:23 applies the same prompt temporal relation to a hoped-for sending after the writer has considered his situation, rendered “as soon as.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses “Immediately” or “immediately,” while Acts 11:11 has “at that very moment” and Philippians 2:23 has “as soon as.” These phrases confirm the clauses' temporal emphasis rather than establish separate lexical meanings.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture