adjective
euthuos
Strong’sG2117
straight, immediately
stem euthu-59 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books4 of 26 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Straight, direct — describing something that goes in a direct line rather than crooked or winding, as of a road or path 13. From this literal sense comes a moral use, describing a person or heart as straightforward, upright, or right rather than crooked in character 13.
As an adverb, the word means immediately, at once, straightway — marking something as happening right away or without delay 234. Strong's notes that this adverbial "at once" sense specifically concerns time, alongside the literal meaning "level" and the figurative meaning "true" 2.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
εὐθύς, -εῖα, -ύ
[in LXX chiefly for יָשַׁר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2117 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidyoo-thoos'
straight, i.e. (literally) level, or (figuratively) true; adverbially (of time) at once
Fromperhaps from G2095 and G5087;
King Jamesanon, by and by, forthwith, immediately, straightway.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἰθύς (which see: so always in Hom.and Refs 5th c.BC+,
A straight, direct, whether vertically or horizontally, opposed to σκολιός, καμπύλος, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ τὸ εὐθὺ ἑστάναι stands still with reference to the vertical, of a spinning top, Refs; εὐ. πλόος, ὁδοί, Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐθείᾳ (i.e. ὁδῷ) by the straight road, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν εὐ. Refs 5th c.BC+; πλήρης τοῦ εὐθέος tired of going straight forward, Refs; ἡ ἐς τὸ εὐ. τῆς ῥητορικῆς ὁδός the direct road to.., Refs 2nd c.AD+; κατ᾽ εὐθύ on level ground, LXX; but ἡ κατ᾽ εὐ. τάσις in the direct line, Refs 1st c.BC+; on the same side, Refs 2nd c.AD+; also, opposed to εἰς τὸ ἐντός, Refs 3rd c.AD+
A.2 in moral sense, straightforward, frank, of persons, εὐθὺν χρὴ τὸν ἑταῖρον ἔμμεν καὶ μὴ σκολιὰ φρονεῖν Refs 7th c.BC+; ὁ εὐθὺς λόγος Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπὸ τοῦ εὐθέος λέγειν to speak straight out, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐκ τοῦ εὐ. ὑπουργεῖν outright, openly, without reserve, Refs; ἐκ τοῦ εὐ., opposed to δι᾽ αἰνιγμάτων, Refs 1st c.AD+; ἀπ᾽ εὐθείας Refs; κατ᾽ εὐθεῖαν by direct reasoning, Refs 5th c.AD+; μηδὲν ἐξ εὐθείας παρέχει (an amulet) does no good directly, Refs 2nd c.AD+
A.3 εὐθεῖα, ἡ, as substantive,
A.3.a (i.e. γραμμή) straight line, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐπ᾽ εὐθείας εἶναι lie in a straight line, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτὴν εὐ., ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς εὐ. ἐκτείνειν, in the same line, Refs 2nd c.BC+: comparative, εὐθυτέρα ἡ γραμμὴ γίνεται Refs 4th c.BC+
A.3.b (i.e. πτῶσις) nominative case, Refs 2nd c.BC+; κατ᾽ εὐθύ in the nominative, Refs 4th c.BC+
B as adverb, εὐθύς and εὐθύ, the former properly of Time, the latter of Place, Refs 2nd c.AD+
B.I εὐθύ, of Place, straight, usually of motion or direction, εὐθὺ Πύλονδε straight to.., Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐ. [τὴν ἐπὶ] Βαβυλῶνος straight towards.., Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀποθανούμενος ᾔει εὐ. τοῦ δαιμονίου in opposition to.., Refs 5th c.BC+; compare ἰθύς.
B.I.b νῆσον οἰκεῖ εὐθὺ Ἴστρου opposite.., Refs 2nd c.AD+
B.I.2 ={ἁπλῶς}, simply, καλεῖν Refs 4th c.BC+
B.I.3 rarely of Time, Refs 4th c.BC+
B.II εὐθύς,
B.II.1 of Time, straightway, forthwith, Refs 5th c.BC+; joined with other adverbial words, τάχα δ᾽ εὐ. ἰών Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐ. παραχρῆμα (see. entry παραχρῆμα); εὐ. ἀπ᾽ αρχῆς Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐξ ἀρχῆς εὐ. Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐ. ἐκ νέου, ἐκ παιδός, even from one's youth, Refs 5th c.BC+: with a participle, εὐ. νέοι ὄντες Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῦ θέρους εὐ. ἀρχομένου just at the beginning of summer, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀρξάμενος εὐ. καθισταμένου [τοῦ πολέμου] from the very beginning of the war, Refs; εὐ. ἀποβεβηκότι immediately on disembarking, Refs; εὐ. γενομένοις at the moment of birth, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, at once, naturally, ὑπάρχει εὐθὺς γένη ἔχον τὸ ὄν Being falls at once into genera, Refs 4th c.BC+: with substantive, ἡ τῶν Ἰταλιωτῶν εὐθὺς φυγή Refs 2nd c.AD+
B.II.2 less frequently in a local relation, ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως εὐ. just above the city, Refs 5th c.BC+; παρ᾽ αὐτὴν εὐ. ὁ ἔσπλους ἐστίν directly past it (the mole), Refs; ἐγγύτατα τούτου εὐ. ἐχομένη immediately adjoining this, Refs 3rd c.BC+; εὐ. ἐπὶ τὴν γέφυραν Foed. cited in Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν εὐ. Ἄργους κἀπιδαυρίας ὁδόν the road leading straight to Argos, Refs 5th c.BC+
B.II.3 of Manner, directly, simply, variant in Refs 5th c.BC+
B.II.4 like{αὐτίκα} Refsfor instance, to take the first example that occurs, ὥσπερ ζῷον εὐθύς Refs 4th c.BC+
C regular adverb εὐθέως, used just as εὐθύς, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἰσθόμενος εὐθέως as soon as he perceived, Refs 5th c.BC+
C.2 ={εὐθύς} Refs 5th c.BC+ as for example, Refs 5th c.BC+; so εὐ. alone, Refs 1st c.AD+ is the commoner form in later Greek, Refs 3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
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Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | euthuos51×εὐθὺς | euthuas1×εὐθεῖα | euthuem | euthuois | euthuais | euthueim |
| object accusative | euthuon | euthuan3×εὐθείαν | euthuoin | euthuain4×εὐθείας | ||
| direct address vocative | euthuor | euthuar | euthuoir | euthuair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | euthuou | euthuau | euthueu | euthuoiu | euthuaiu | euthueiu |
| to, for dative | euthuo | euthua | euthue | euthuoi | euthuai | euthuei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
euthu is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
59 occurrences, every one of them listed
euthuos“immediately”subjectnominative singular51×
Matthew 3:16“immediately”baptizirantos de tos Iēsus euthuos anabainata apo teu hudeu; kai idou …… soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on …
Matthew 13:20“immediately”… atō tos ton logon akouarōntos kai euthuos meta charau labarōntos auton,… rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
Matthew 13:21“immediately”… thlipsiau ē diōgmou dia ton logon euthuos skandalizotō.… season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
Matthew 14:27“immediately”euthuos de lalata autoi tos Iēsus legarōntos; …But Jesus spoke up at …
Matthew 21:3“at once”… hoti Tos kurios autoiu chreian echatō; euthuos de apostelati autoin.… tell him that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away.”
Mark 1:10“immediately”kai euthuos anabainarōntos ek teu hudeu horata schizorōntoin …… came up out of the water, He saw the heavens …
Mark 1:12“immediately”Kai euthuos tem pneumem auton ekbalatō eis tan …At once the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness,
Mark 1:18“immediately”kai euthuos afiēkarantois teim diktueim akolouthala auto.And at once they left their nets and followed Him.
Mark 1:20kai euthuos kalata autoin. kai afiēkarantois ton patron …Immediately Jesus called them, and they left …
Mark 1:21“immediately”Kai eisporeuolō eis Kafarnaoum. kai euthuos tei sabbatei didaskate eis tan sunagōgan.Then Jesus and His companions went to Capernaum, and right away Jesus entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and began to teach.
Mark 1:23“immediately”kai euthuos ate en ta sunagōga autoiu anthrōpos …Suddenly a man with an unclean spirit cried out in the synagogue:
Mark 1:28“at once”kai exerchata tas akoas autou euthuos pantachou eis holan tan perichōran tau …And the news about Jesus spread quickly through the whole region …
Mark 1:29Kai euthuos ek tau sunagōgau exercharantois erchala eis …As soon as Jesus and His companions had left …
Mark 1:30“at once”… de pentheras Simōnou katakeiote puressarōntas, kai euthuos legalō auto peri autau.Simon’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a fever, and they promptly told Jesus about her.
Mark 1:42kai euthuos aperchata apo autou tas lepras, kai …And immediately the leprosy left him, and the …
Mark 1:43“at once”kai embrimerantos auto euthuos ekbalata auton,Jesus promptly sent him away with a …
Mark 2:8“immediately”kai euthuos epignōskarantos tos Iēsus te pneume autou …At once Jesus knew in His spirit that they …
Mark 2:12kai egerita kai euthuos airarantos ton krabatton exerchata emprosthen pantoiu, …And immediately the man got up, picked up …
Mark 3:6“immediately”kai exercharantois tois Farisaiois euthuos meta toiu Hērōdianoiu sumbouliem dōale kata …At this, the Pharisees went out and began plotting with the Herodians how they …
Mark 4:5“immediately”… hopou ouk echate gēan pollan, kai euthuos exanatellata dia tem mē echarō bathem …… rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil …
Mark 4:15“immediately”… sperotō tos logos, kai hotan akoualeia euthuos erchotō tos Satanos kai airatō ton …… path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that …
Mark 4:16“immediately”… sperorōntois, hois hotan akoualeia ton logon euthuos meta charau labalō auton,… the seeds sown on rocky ground. They hear the word and at once receive it with joy.
Mark 4:17“immediately”… thlipsiau ē diōgmou dia ton logon euthuos skandalizolō.… season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
Mark 4:29“at once”hotan de paradōateia tos karpos, euthuos apostelatō tem drepanem, hoti parastēatē tos …… soon as the grain is ripe, he swings the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
Mark 5:2“immediately”kai exercharantou autou ek teu ploieu euthuos hupantata auto ek teiu mnēmeieiu anthrōpos …… as Jesus got out of the boat, He was met by a man with an unclean spirit, who was coming from the tombs.
Mark 5:29kai euthuos xēranita tas pēgas teu haimeu autau, …Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she sensed …
Mark 5:30“immediately”kai euthuos tos Iēsus epignōskarantos en heauto tan …At once Jesus was aware that power had …
Mark 5:42kai euthuos anastēata tem korasiem kai peripatate, ate …Immediately the girl got up and began …
Mark 5:42“immediately”… ate gar eteiu dōdeka. kai ekstēala euthuos ekstasia mega.… around (she was twelve years old). And …
Mark 6:25kai eisercharantas euthuos meta spoudau pros ton basilevon aiteta …… John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”
Mark 6:27“immediately”kai euthuos apostelarantos tos basilevos spekoulatōron epitassata ferara …… without delay, the king commanded that John’s head be brought in. He sent an executioner, who went …
Mark 6:45Kai euthuos anankazata toin mathētoin autou embainara eis …Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into …
Mark 6:50“immediately”… auton horala kai tarassila. tos de euthuos lalata meta autoiu, kai legatō autoi; …… they all saw Him and were terrified. But Jesus spoke up at …
Mark 6:54“immediately”kai exercharantoiu autoiu ek teu ploieu euthuos epignōskarantois auton… soon as they got out of the boat, the people recognized Jesus
Mark 7:25“immediately”alla euthuos akouarantas gunaikas peri autou, hau echate …Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and …
Mark 8:10kai euthuos embainarantos eis tem ploiem meta toiu …He immediately got into the boat with His …
Mark 9:15“immediately”kai euthuos pantos tos ochlos horarantois auton ekthambila, …… as all the people saw Jesus, they …
Mark 9:20… auton. kai horarantos auton tem pneumem euthuos susparassata auton, kai piptarantos epi tau …… him, and seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately threw the boy into a convulsion …
Mark 9:24euthuos krazarantos tos patros teu paidieu legate; …Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I …
Mark 10:52… tas pistias su sōzatē sin. kai euthuos anablepata, kai akolouthate auto en ta …… your faith has healed you.” And immediately he received his sight and followed …
Mark 11:2“immediately”… tan kōman tan katenanti vu, kai euthuos eisporeuorōntois eis autan heuriskavi pōlon dorēnton …… Go into the village ahead of you, and as soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on …
Mark 11:3“immediately”… Tos kurios autou chreian echatō; kai euthuos auton apostelatō palin hōde.… tell him, ‘The Lord needs it and will return it shortly.’”
Mark 14:43“immediately”Kai euthuos ēti autou lalarōntou paragenotō Ioudos henos …… Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived, accompanied by a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent …
Mark 14:45“immediately”kai ercharantos euthuos prosercharantos auto legatō; Rabbi, kai katafilata …… Jesus, he said, “Rabbi!” and kissed Him.
Mark 14:72kai euthuos ek deutereu alektōros fōnata; kai anamimnēskita …And immediately the rooster crowed a second time …
Mark 15:1“as soon as”Kai euthuos prōi sumbouliem poiarantois tois archierevois meta …… in the morning, the chief priests, elders, scribes, and the whole …
Luke 6:49… themeliou, ha prosrēgata tos potamos, kai euthuos sumpiptata, kai geneta tem rēgmem tau …… torrent crashed against that house, and immediately it fell — and great was its …
John 13:30“immediately”labarantos oun tem psōmiem ekeinos exerchata euthuos. ate de nuktas.… soon as he had received the morsel, Judas went out into the night.
John 13:32… theos doxazati auton en heauto, kai euthuos doxazati auton.… in Himself — and will glorify Him at once.
John 19:34“at once”… autou tan pleuran nussata, kai exerchata euthuos haimem kai hudem.… the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
Acts 10:16“immediately”houtem de geneta epi tris, kai euthuos analabita tem skevem eis ton ouranon.This happened three times, and all at once the sheet was taken back up into heaven.
euthuas“right”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 8:21… tas gar kardias su ouk atō euthuas enanti tou theou.… ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
euthuan“straight”objectaccusative singular3×
Luke 3:5… tapeiniti, kai eti teim skolieim eis euthuan kai tais trachuais eis hodain leiain;… The crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.
Acts 9:11… poreuisar epi tan ruman tan kalorōntan Euthuan kai zētasar en oikia Ioudou Saulon …… to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man …
2 Peter 2:15kataleiparantois euthuan hodan planila, exakoloutharantois ta hoda tou …They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow …
euthuain“straight”objectaccusative plural4×
Matthew 3:3… ta erēma; Hetoimazavar tan hodan kuriou, euthuain poiavōr tain tribain autou.… the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
Mark 1:3… ta erēma; Hetoimazavar tan hodan kuriou, euthuain poiavōr tain tribain autou,… the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
Luke 3:4… ta erēma; Hetoimazavar tan hodan kuriou, euthuain poiavōr tain tribain autou.… the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.
Acts 13:10… pauesi diastrefarōntos tain hodain kuriou tain euthuain?… Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?