Quickly
Quickly
the neuter of tachus, “swift, quick,” signifies “quickly,” Mat 5:25; Mat 28:7-8; Mar 9:39, RV (AV, “lightly”); Luk 15:22; Joh 11:29; Rev 2:16 (Rev 2:5 in some mss.); Rev 3:11; Rev 11:14; Rev 22:7, Rev 22:12, Rev 22:20. See LIGHTLY.
the comparative degree of No. 1, is translated “quickly” in Joh 13:27; “out(ran)” in Joh 20:4, RV, lit., “(ran before) more quickly (than Peter);” “shortly” in 1Ti 3:14; Heb 13:23; in Heb 13:19, “(the) sooner.” See SHORTLY.
akin to No. 1, is translated “quickly” in Luk 14:21; Luk 16:6; Joh 11:31, RV; “shortly” in 1Co 4:19; Phi 2:19, Phi 2:24; 2Ti 4:9; with a suggestion of rashness in the following, Gal 1:6, RV, “quickly” (AV, “soon”); 2Th 2:2; and 1Ti 5:22, “hastily,” (AV, “suddenly”). See HASTILY, C.
lit., “in, or with, swiftness, with speed” (en, “in,” and the dative case of tachos, “speed”), is translated “quickly” in Act 12:7; Act 22:18; “speedily” in Luk 18:8; “shortly” in Act 25:4; Rom 16:20; 1Ti 3:14 in some texts; Rev 1:1; Rev 22:6. In the last two places, “with speed” is probably the meaning. See SHORTLY, SPEEDILY.