adverb
tacha
Strong’sG5029
quickly, perhaps
stem tach-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 booksnever changes form
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** τάχα
(< ταχύς),
adv.,[in LXX: Wi 13:6 14:19 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5029 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtakh'-ah
shortly, i.e. (figuratively) possibly
Fromas if neuter plural of G5036 (adverbially);
King Jamesperadventure(-haps).
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
adverb, (τᾰχύς) quickly, presently, forthwith, frequently in Refs 8th c.BC+, uses it only of time, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἦ τ. soon i'faith, Refs 8th c.BC+; of past time, τ. δ᾽ Ἕκτορος ἄγχι γένοντο Refs 8th c.BC+ Attic dialectProse and Comedy texts, with future, τάχ᾽ εἴσομαι Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔοικα θεσπιῳδήσειν τ. Refs 4th c.BC+; πέμψον πρὸς ἐμὲ τ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; in this sense not found in Refs; τάχα ἐπειδάν, ={ἐπειδὰν τάχιστα}, as soon as, Refs 5th c.BC+
II perhaps, to express any contingency from a probability to bare possibility, δὶς μὲν γὰρ καὶ τρὶς τ. τεύξεαι Refs 8th c.BC+, probably, perhaps, Refs 5th c.BC+, frequently in Trag. and Attic dialect; mostly with optative, as Refs 5th c.BC+; rarely with aorist indicative, Refs 5th c.BC+; with imperfect indicative, Refs 4th c.BC+; with participle, Refs 5th c.BC+; with infinitive, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τάχ᾽ ἄν alone, in answers, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἴσως τ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀμφισβητοῦντες προστιθέασιν ἀεὶ τὸ ἴσως καὶ τ. Refs 4th c.BC+; in this sense only twice in LXX
III superlative τάχιστα, see at {ταχύς} with Refs
IV Refs 5th c.BC+, perhaps-es, “fragment” 869.
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.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
tacha2×
Romans 5:7“perhaps”… tinos apothnēsketi; huper gar tou agathou tacha tinos kai tolmatō apothnēskara;… will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.
Philemon 1:15tacha gar dia houtem chōrizita pros hōran …For perhaps this is why he was separated …