Strong G2117εὐθύς
Straight
- Transliteration
- euthus
- Pronunciation
- yoo-thoos'
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Detailed definition
εὐθύς, -εῖα, -ύ
[in LXX chiefly for יָשַׁר;]
1. straight, direct: τρίβοι, Mat.3:3, Mrk.1:3, Luk.3:4" (LXX); εἰς εὐθειας, (sc. ὁδούς), Luk.3:5; εὐ. ὐδός, figuratively, Act.13:10, 2Pe.2:15; as (Proper name) of a street, Act.9:11.
2. In moral sense, straightforward, right: καρδία, Act.8:21 (cf. Psa.7:11 32:11, al.).†
εὐθύς,
adv., [in LXX (more frequently than εὐθέως) chiefly for יָשַׁר;]
= εὐθέως, straightway, directly: Mat.3:16 13:20-21 14:27 21:2-3 26:74, Luk.6:49, Jhn.13:30, 32 19:34, Act.10:16, 42 times in Mk.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for יָשַׁר;]
1. straight, direct: τρίβοι, Mat.3:3, Mrk.1:3, Luk.3:4" (LXX); εἰς εὐθειας, (sc. ὁδούς), Luk.3:5; εὐ. ὐδός, figuratively, Act.13:10, 2Pe.2:15; as (Proper name) of a street, Act.9:11.
2. In moral sense, straightforward, right: καρδία, Act.8:21 (cf. Psa.7:11 32:11, al.).†
εὐθύς,
adv., [in LXX (more frequently than εὐθέως) chiefly for יָשַׁר;]
= εὐθέως, straightway, directly: Mat.3:16 13:20-21 14:27 21:2-3 26:74, Luk.6:49, Jhn.13:30, 32 19:34, Act.10:16, 42 times in Mk.†
(AS)
In the biblical story
Straight
Street in Damascus where Saul stayed after conversion
Straight, a street in Damascus where Saul stayed in the house of Judas after his conversion (Acts 9:11).
In the Bible
Strong G2117 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- straight5
- right3
First verses
- Matthew 3:3For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
- Mark 1:3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
- Luke 3:4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
- Luke 3:5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
- Acts 8:21Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
- Acts 9:11And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,
- Acts 13:10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
- 2 Peter 2:15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
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.))]