Strong G2112εὐθέως
immediately
- Transliteration
- eutheōs
- Pronunciation
- yoo-theh'-oce
- Morphology
- Greek Adverb
Definition
Adverb from G2117; directly that is at once or soon: - anon as soon as forthwith immediately shortly straightway.
Detailed definition
εὐθέως
adv. (εὐθύς), [in LXX: Job.5:3 (פִּתְאוֹם), Wis.5:12, 1Ma.11:12, al.;]
straightway, at once, directly: Gal.1:16, Jas.1:24, 3Jn.14 (cf. Dalman, Words, 28 f.), Rev.4:2, and frequently in Mt, Lk, Jo, Ac (in Mk, εὐθύς), which see)
(AS)
adv. (εὐθύς), [in LXX: Job.5:3 (פִּתְאוֹם), Wis.5:12, 1Ma.11:12, al.;]
straightway, at once, directly: Gal.1:16, Jas.1:24, 3Jn.14 (cf. Dalman, Words, 28 f.), Rev.4:2, and frequently in Mt, Lk, Jo, Ac (in Mk, εὐθύς), which see)
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2112 appears in 88 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- immediately38
- straightway34
- forthwith8
- by2
- soon2
- anon2
- shortly1
First verses
- Matthew 3:16And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
- Matthew 4:20And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
- Matthew 4:22And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
- Matthew 8:3And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
- Matthew 13:5Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
- Matthew 13:20But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
- Matthew 13:21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
- Matthew 14:22And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
- Matthew 14:27But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.
- Matthew 14:31And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
- Matthew 20:34So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
- Matthew 21:2Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.
- Matthew 21:3And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
- Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
- Matthew 25:15And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
- Matthew 26:49And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
- Matthew 26:74Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
- Matthew 27:48And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
- Mark 1:10And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
- Mark 1:12And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
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Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
Included with: εὐθύς, εῖα, ύ,
Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἰθύς (which see: so always in Hom.and [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus))],
A straight, direct, whether vertically or horizontally, opposed to σκολιός, καμπύλος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 194b, “R.” 602c, etc.)]; κατὰ τὸ εὐθὺ ἑστάναι stands still with reference to the vertical, of a spinning top, [Refs ([prev. work] 436e)]; εὐ. πλόος, ὁδοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.103, “N.” 1.25, etc.; εὐθυτέρα ὁδός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.4; ὁδοὺς εὐθείας ἔτεμε 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.100; ῥόμβος ἀκόντων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.93)]; εὐθείᾳ (i.e. ὁδῷ) by the straight road, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 716a; εὐθεῖαν ἕρπε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 195)]; τὴν εὐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 384; ἐπ᾽ εὐθείας 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.38, 1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 2.6, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.1.8; so also εἰς τὸ εὐ.βλέπειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 7.17, etc.)]; πλήρης τοῦ εὐθέος tired of going straight forward, [Refs ([prev. work] 14)]; ἡ ἐς τὸ εὐ. τῆς ῥητορικῆς ὁδός the direct road to.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 10)]; κατ᾽ εὐθύ on level ground, [LXX (LXX.1Ki.21.23)]; but ἡ κατ᾽ εὐ. τάσις in the direct line, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Apollonius Citiensis Medicus 2)]; on the same side, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 8.62)]; also, opposed to εἰς τὸ ἐντός, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.14.)]
A.2 in moral sense, straightforward, frank, of persons, εὐθὺν χρὴ τὸν ἑταῖρον ἔμμεν καὶ μὴ σκολιὰ φρονεῖν [Refs 7th c.BC+ (“Scol.” 16; κοινᾶνι παρ᾽ εὐθυτάτῳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.28; ῥῆτραι 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 4.6; τόλμα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.12; δίκα [prev. author] “N.” 10.12; κρῖνε δ᾽ εὐθεῖαν δίκην 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 433, compare Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. 1911.134 (from Gonni))]; ὁ εὐθὺς λόγος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 492; τὸ εὐ. τε καὶ τὸ ἐλεύθερον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 173a)]; ἀπὸ τοῦ εὐθέος λέγειν to speak straight out, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.43)]; ἐκ τοῦ εὐ. ὑπουργεῖν outright, openly, without reserve, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.34)]; ἐκ τοῦ εὐ., opposed to δι᾽ αἰνιγμάτων, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 8.8.3: in _feminine_, τὴν εὐθεῖάν τινι συνειπεῖν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cicero” 7; ἁπλῶς καὶ δι᾽ εὐθείας [prev. author] 2.408e)]; ἀπ᾽ εὐθείας [Refs ([prev. work]57a, “Fab.” 3)]; κατ᾽ εὐθεῖαν by direct reasoning, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 432)]; μηδὲν ἐξ εὐθείας παρέχει (an amulet) does no good directly, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.42.)]
A.3 εὐθεῖα, ἡ, as substantive,
A.3.a (i.e. γραμμή) straight line, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 49b35, +others, 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 1 “Def.” 7, +others)]; ἐπ᾽ εὐθείας εἶναι lie in a straight line, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ κωνοειδέων καὶ σφαιροειδέων” 7, +others)]; ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτὴν εὐ., ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς εὐ. ἐκτείνειν, in the same line, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.113.2, 3; ἐπὶ μίαν εὐ. [prev. work] 8)]: comparative, εὐθυτέρα ἡ γραμμὴ γίνεται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mechanica” 855a24.)]
A.3.b (i.e. πτῶσις) nominative case, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 636.5, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 6.11, etc.)]; κατ᾽ εὐθύ in the nominative, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Sophistici Elenchi” 182a3.)]
B as adverb, εὐθύς and εὐθύ, the former properly of Time, the latter of Place, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 119, etc.)]
B.I εὐθύ, of Place, straight, usually of motion or direction, εὐθὺ Πύλονδε straight to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (hymnus ad Mercurium 342; εὐθὺ πρὸς τὰ νυμφικὰ λέχη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1242)]; εὐ. [τὴν ἐπὶ] Βαβυλῶνος straight towards.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.37: and so with _genitive_, εὐ. τῶν κυρηβίων, εὐθὺ Πελλήνης, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 254, “Av.” 1421; εὐ.τοῦ Διός [prev. author] “Pax” 68; εὐ. τοὐρόφου 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 47; εὐ. τῆς σωτηρίας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 301, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.88, etc.)]; ἀποθανούμενος ᾔει εὐ. τοῦ δαιμονίου in opposition to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theages” 129a (assuming variant))]; compare ἰθύς.
B.I.b νῆσον οἰκεῖ εὐθὺ Ἴστρου opposite.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Maximus Tyrius Sophista 15.7.)]
B.I.2 ={ἁπλῶς}, simply, καλεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.8.2, compare 9.13.2.)]
B.I.3 rarely of Time, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Philochorus Historicus 144, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1414b25, “UPZ” 77.27 (2nd c.BC), “PGrenf.” 1.1.24 (2nd c.BC), Aristeas 24, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nav.” 22.)]
B.II εὐθύς,
B.II.1 of Time, straightway, forthwith, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.41; ὁ δ᾽ εὐ. ὡς ἤκουσε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 361; ὁ δ᾽ εὐ. ἐξῴμωξεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 317; τὸ μὲν εὐ. τὸ δὲ καὶ διανοούμενον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.1, compare 5.3, 7.77)]; joined with other adverbial words, τάχα δ᾽ εὐ. ἰών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.83; εὐ. κατὰ τάχος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.101)]; εὐ. παραχρῆμα (see. entry παραχρῆμα); εὐ. ἀπ᾽ αρχῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 84 (_anapaest meter_); εὐ. ἐξ ἀρχῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.16)]; ἐξ ἀρχῆς εὐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287b10; εὐ. κατ᾽ ἀρχάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 24b; ἀφ᾽ ἑσπέρας εὐ. ἤδη 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Gall.” 1)]; εὐ. ἐκ νέου, ἐκ παιδός, even from one's youth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 485d, 519a; εὐ. ἐκ παιδίου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.20)]: with a participle, εὐ. νέοι ὄντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.39; εὐ. ἥκων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.7.2; εὐ. ἀπεκτονώς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.127)]; τοῦ θέρους εὐ. ἀρχομένου just at the beginning of summer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.47)]; ἀρξάμενος εὐ. καθισταμένου [τοῦ πολέμου] from the very beginning of the war, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.1)]; εὐ. ἀποβεβηκότι immediately on disembarking, [Refs ([prev. author] 4.43)]; εὐ. γενομένοις at the moment of birth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 186b)]: metaphorically, at once, naturally, ὑπάρχει εὐθὺς γένη ἔχον τὸ ὄν Being falls at once into genera, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1004a5, compare “Po.” 1452a14)]: with substantive, ἡ τῶν Ἰταλιωτῶν εὐθὺς φυγή [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.1.5.)]
B.II.2 less frequently in a local relation, ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως εὐ. just above the city, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.96)]; παρ᾽ αὐτὴν εὐ. ὁ ἔσπλους ἐστίν directly past it (the mole), [Refs ([prev. author] 8.90)]; ἐγγύτατα τούτου εὐ. ἐχομένη immediately adjoining this, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. passage],compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.23)]; εὐ. ἐπὶ τὴν γέφυραν Foed. cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.118, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.1, 2, 2.4.24, “Ages.” 1.29)]; τὴν εὐ. Ἄργους κἀπιδαυρίας ὁδόν the road leading straight to Argos, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1197 (condemned by 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.); εὐ. Λυκείου 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 110, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 498a32, etc.)]
B.II.3 of Manner, directly, simply, variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 100a.)]
B.II.4 like{αὐτίκα} [Refs (11:)]for instance, to take the first example that occurs, ὥσπερ ζῷον εὐθύς [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1277a6, compare “Cael.” 284b10, etc.; οἷον εὐθύς 2nd c.AD: Cleomedes Astronomus 1.1, 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 11.145.)]
C regular adverb εὐθέως, used just as εὐθύς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 31, “OC” 994, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 31, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 63a, etc.)]; αἰσθόμενος εὐθέως as soon as he perceived, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.11; ἐπεὶ εὐθέως ᾔσθοντο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.4; εὐθέως παραχρῆμα 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.20, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 52.6.)]
C.2 ={εὐθύς} [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.4, οἷον εὐθέως)] as for example, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.52.1, 12.5.6 (uncertain meaning in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 55))]; so εὐ. alone, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.589. (εὐθέως)] is the commoner form in later Greek, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 34.17 (3rd c.BC), etc.))]
Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἰθύς (which see: so always in Hom.and [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus))],
A straight, direct, whether vertically or horizontally, opposed to σκολιός, καμπύλος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 194b, “R.” 602c, etc.)]; κατὰ τὸ εὐθὺ ἑστάναι stands still with reference to the vertical, of a spinning top, [Refs ([prev. work] 436e)]; εὐ. πλόος, ὁδοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.103, “N.” 1.25, etc.; εὐθυτέρα ὁδός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.4; ὁδοὺς εὐθείας ἔτεμε 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.100; ῥόμβος ἀκόντων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.93)]; εὐθείᾳ (i.e. ὁδῷ) by the straight road, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 716a; εὐθεῖαν ἕρπε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 195)]; τὴν εὐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 384; ἐπ᾽ εὐθείας 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.38, 1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 2.6, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.1.8; so also εἰς τὸ εὐ.βλέπειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 7.17, etc.)]; πλήρης τοῦ εὐθέος tired of going straight forward, [Refs ([prev. work] 14)]; ἡ ἐς τὸ εὐ. τῆς ῥητορικῆς ὁδός the direct road to.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 10)]; κατ᾽ εὐθύ on level ground, [LXX (LXX.1Ki.21.23)]; but ἡ κατ᾽ εὐ. τάσις in the direct line, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Apollonius Citiensis Medicus 2)]; on the same side, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 8.62)]; also, opposed to εἰς τὸ ἐντός, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.14.)]
A.2 in moral sense, straightforward, frank, of persons, εὐθὺν χρὴ τὸν ἑταῖρον ἔμμεν καὶ μὴ σκολιὰ φρονεῖν [Refs 7th c.BC+ (“Scol.” 16; κοινᾶνι παρ᾽ εὐθυτάτῳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.28; ῥῆτραι 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 4.6; τόλμα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.12; δίκα [prev. author] “N.” 10.12; κρῖνε δ᾽ εὐθεῖαν δίκην 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 433, compare Ἀρχ. Ἐφ. 1911.134 (from Gonni))]; ὁ εὐθὺς λόγος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 492; τὸ εὐ. τε καὶ τὸ ἐλεύθερον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 173a)]; ἀπὸ τοῦ εὐθέος λέγειν to speak straight out, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.43)]; ἐκ τοῦ εὐ. ὑπουργεῖν outright, openly, without reserve, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.34)]; ἐκ τοῦ εὐ., opposed to δι᾽ αἰνιγμάτων, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 8.8.3: in _feminine_, τὴν εὐθεῖάν τινι συνειπεῖν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cicero” 7; ἁπλῶς καὶ δι᾽ εὐθείας [prev. author] 2.408e)]; ἀπ᾽ εὐθείας [Refs ([prev. work]57a, “Fab.” 3)]; κατ᾽ εὐθεῖαν by direct reasoning, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 432)]; μηδὲν ἐξ εὐθείας παρέχει (an amulet) does no good directly, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.42.)]
A.3 εὐθεῖα, ἡ, as substantive,
A.3.a (i.e. γραμμή) straight line, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 49b35, +others, 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 1 “Def.” 7, +others)]; ἐπ᾽ εὐθείας εἶναι lie in a straight line, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ κωνοειδέων καὶ σφαιροειδέων” 7, +others)]; ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτὴν εὐ., ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτῆς εὐ. ἐκτείνειν, in the same line, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.113.2, 3; ἐπὶ μίαν εὐ. [prev. work] 8)]: comparative, εὐθυτέρα ἡ γραμμὴ γίνεται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mechanica” 855a24.)]
A.3.b (i.e. πτῶσις) nominative case, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 636.5, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 6.11, etc.)]; κατ᾽ εὐθύ in the nominative, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Sophistici Elenchi” 182a3.)]
B as adverb, εὐθύς and εὐθύ, the former properly of Time, the latter of Place, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 119, etc.)]
B.I εὐθύ, of Place, straight, usually of motion or direction, εὐθὺ Πύλονδε straight to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (hymnus ad Mercurium 342; εὐθὺ πρὸς τὰ νυμφικὰ λέχη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1242)]; εὐ. [τὴν ἐπὶ] Βαβυλῶνος straight towards.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.37: and so with _genitive_, εὐ. τῶν κυρηβίων, εὐθὺ Πελλήνης, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 254, “Av.” 1421; εὐ.τοῦ Διός [prev. author] “Pax” 68; εὐ. τοὐρόφου 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 47; εὐ. τῆς σωτηρίας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 301, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.88, etc.)]; ἀποθανούμενος ᾔει εὐ. τοῦ δαιμονίου in opposition to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theages” 129a (assuming variant))]; compare ἰθύς.
B.I.b νῆσον οἰκεῖ εὐθὺ Ἴστρου opposite.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Maximus Tyrius Sophista 15.7.)]
B.I.2 ={ἁπλῶς}, simply, καλεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.8.2, compare 9.13.2.)]
B.I.3 rarely of Time, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Philochorus Historicus 144, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1414b25, “UPZ” 77.27 (2nd c.BC), “PGrenf.” 1.1.24 (2nd c.BC), Aristeas 24, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nav.” 22.)]
B.II εὐθύς,
B.II.1 of Time, straightway, forthwith, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.41; ὁ δ᾽ εὐ. ὡς ἤκουσε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 361; ὁ δ᾽ εὐ. ἐξῴμωξεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 317; τὸ μὲν εὐ. τὸ δὲ καὶ διανοούμενον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.1, compare 5.3, 7.77)]; joined with other adverbial words, τάχα δ᾽ εὐ. ἰών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.83; εὐ. κατὰ τάχος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.101)]; εὐ. παραχρῆμα (see. entry παραχρῆμα); εὐ. ἀπ᾽ αρχῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 84 (_anapaest meter_); εὐ. ἐξ ἀρχῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.16)]; ἐξ ἀρχῆς εὐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287b10; εὐ. κατ᾽ ἀρχάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 24b; ἀφ᾽ ἑσπέρας εὐ. ἤδη 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Gall.” 1)]; εὐ. ἐκ νέου, ἐκ παιδός, even from one's youth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 485d, 519a; εὐ. ἐκ παιδίου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.20)]: with a participle, εὐ. νέοι ὄντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.39; εὐ. ἥκων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.7.2; εὐ. ἀπεκτονώς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.127)]; τοῦ θέρους εὐ. ἀρχομένου just at the beginning of summer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.47)]; ἀρξάμενος εὐ. καθισταμένου [τοῦ πολέμου] from the very beginning of the war, [Refs ([prev. author] 1.1)]; εὐ. ἀποβεβηκότι immediately on disembarking, [Refs ([prev. author] 4.43)]; εὐ. γενομένοις at the moment of birth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 186b)]: metaphorically, at once, naturally, ὑπάρχει εὐθὺς γένη ἔχον τὸ ὄν Being falls at once into genera, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1004a5, compare “Po.” 1452a14)]: with substantive, ἡ τῶν Ἰταλιωτῶν εὐθὺς φυγή [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.1.5.)]
B.II.2 less frequently in a local relation, ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως εὐ. just above the city, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.96)]; παρ᾽ αὐτὴν εὐ. ὁ ἔσπλους ἐστίν directly past it (the mole), [Refs ([prev. author] 8.90)]; ἐγγύτατα τούτου εὐ. ἐχομένη immediately adjoining this, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. passage],compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.23)]; εὐ. ἐπὶ τὴν γέφυραν Foed. cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.118, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.1, 2, 2.4.24, “Ages.” 1.29)]; τὴν εὐ. Ἄργους κἀπιδαυρίας ὁδόν the road leading straight to Argos, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1197 (condemned by 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.); εὐ. Λυκείου 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 110, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 498a32, etc.)]
B.II.3 of Manner, directly, simply, variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 100a.)]
B.II.4 like{αὐτίκα} [Refs (11:)]for instance, to take the first example that occurs, ὥσπερ ζῷον εὐθύς [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1277a6, compare “Cael.” 284b10, etc.; οἷον εὐθύς 2nd c.AD: Cleomedes Astronomus 1.1, 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 11.145.)]
C regular adverb εὐθέως, used just as εὐθύς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 31, “OC” 994, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 31, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 63a, etc.)]; αἰσθόμενος εὐθέως as soon as he perceived, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.11; ἐπεὶ εὐθέως ᾔσθοντο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.4; εὐθέως παραχρῆμα 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.20, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 52.6.)]
C.2 ={εὐθύς} [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.4, οἷον εὐθέως)] as for example, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.52.1, 12.5.6 (uncertain meaning in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 55))]; so εὐ. alone, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.589. (εὐθέως)] is the commoner form in later Greek, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 34.17 (3rd c.BC), etc.))]