Meaning
the neuter of tachus, "swift, quick," signifies "quickly," Mat 5:25, Mat 1:28-8, 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.
<2,,5032, tacheion>
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.
<3,,5030, tacheos>
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.
<4,,1722 5034,en tachei> 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.
