Lexicon
εὐθέως
eutheōs
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G:ADV Greek

immediately

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eutheos marks an action, event, or expected response as occurring without delay or directly after another point in the narrative.

Across the supplied verses, the adverb marks temporal immediacy: an action follows at once, an event happens directly after another, or a response is expected without delay. This same timing relation appears in narrative actions, healings, instructions, and future or negated statements.

Senses in use

  1. Without delay or directly following · dominant

    The adverb marks actions or events as following without an intervening delay: in Matthew 4:20 the APB renders the disciples' leaving their nets and following as occurring immediately, and in Acts 9:18 it places the recovery of sight directly after the falling of the scales. It also frames an expected prompt response in Luke 12:36, a sequence after prior conditions in Matthew 24:29, and the denial of such nearness in Luke 21:9.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly expresses the timing with “immediately,” including Matthew 4:20 and John 5:9, while other verses use “at once,” “soon,” or a negative phrase such as “will not come immediately.” These renderings confirm the clauses' temporal force rather than supplying separate lexical senses.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture