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euthys can carry the idea of what is straight, direct, right, or without crooked deviation. Some related usage is often glossed immediately or at once, but the direct local witnesses for this Strong's ID in the selected New Testament word table emphasize straight paths, a right heart, Straight Street, and the straight ways of the Lord.
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Full entry for εὐθύς (G2117) · Open the biblical lexicon
euthys can carry the idea of what is straight, direct, right, or without crooked deviation. Some related usage is often glossed immediately or at once, but the direct local witnesses for this Strong's ID in the selected New Testament word table emphasize straight paths, a right heart, Straight Street, and the straight ways of the Lord.
The BSB source-word alignment has 8 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include straight (6), [the] straight (1), right (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 3:3. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (3), Luke (2), 2 Peter (1), Mark (1).
Euthys can carry the idea of what is straight, direct, right, or without crooked deviation. Some related usage is often glossed immediately or at once, but the direct local witnesses for this Strong's ID in the selected New Testament word table emphasize straight paths, a right heart, Straight Street, and the straight ways of the Lord. The word is therefore best handled by attending to the exact passage rather than importing one English gloss everywhere.
Pastorally, euthys helps readers see that God calls for a prepared path, an undivided heart, and a way that is not twisted by deceit. It is a word of direction, alignment, and moral straightness before the Lord.
Euthys in these selected witnesses emphasizes straightness, directness, or what is right. The anchors move from Isaiah's prepared way for the Lord to Peter's rebuke of a heart not right before God, the named Straight Street, warnings against perverting the Lord's ways, and leaving the straight way.
This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
John the Baptist fulfills Isaiah's voice by calling for straight paths for the Lord. euthys serves preparation language.
“A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
Mark opens Jesus' public ministry with the straight-path summons. The term frames repentance as preparation for the Lord.
Every valley shall be filled in, and every mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.
Luke's citation contrasts crooked and straight ways. euthys marks rectified paths before God's saving revelation.
You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
Peter says Simon's heart is not right before God. The word moves from path imagery to heart alignment.
And said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
Paul rebukes deceit that perverts the straight ways of the Lord. euthys is set against spiritual crookedness.
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
False teachers leave the straight way and wander after Balaam. The word becomes a moral road image.
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How English Renders ItA compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
Greek word. Straight path or immediate action; morally denotes righteousness or directness of heart and intention.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
8 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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Euthys shows how biblical language can carry a family of related ideas without letting one English gloss rule every verse. In the Gospel openings, the word belongs to the prophetic call to prepare straight paths for the Lord. In Acts, it can describe a heart not right before God and the Lord's ways being perverted by deceit. In 2 Peter, it names the straight way abandoned by false teachers.
The preacher should therefore handle euthys with lexical care and pastoral force. The issue is not mere geometry. It is whether paths, hearts, teaching, and desires are aligned with the Lord or twisted away from Him. Christ comes as Lord, and crooked paths must be made straight before Him.
Mark.1.3
The local selected witnesses render G2117 with straight or right language. Do not force the adverbial sense immediately into passages where the word-table context is path, heart, street, or way imagery.
Isaiah's call to prepare the Lord's way stands behind the Gospel usage. The New Testament carries that straight-path imagery into repentance, mission, heart integrity, and warnings against false teaching.
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