Topic
Straight; Straightway
17 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Samuel 9:13ISBE
As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up;…
- 1 Samuel 28:20ISBE
Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
- 2 Chronicles 32:30ISBE
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
- Job 20:22ISBE
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
- Job 36:16ISBE
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
- Judith 13:20ISBE
And God turn these things to thee for a perpetual praise, to visit thee in good things because thou hast not spared thy life for the affliction of our nation, but hast revenged our ruin, walking a straight way before our God. And all the people said; So be…
- Baruch 6:27ISBE
They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight:…
- Matthew 7:13ISBE
¶ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
- Matthew 24:29ISBE
¶ Immediately 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:
- Mark 1:3ISBE
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
- Luke 13:13ISBE
And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
- John 1:23ISBE
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
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- Acts 16:11 ISBE
- Acts 21:1 ISBE
- Philippians 1:23 ISBE
- Hebrews 12:12 ISBE
- Hebrews 12:13 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 17 references
strat, strat'-wa: "Straiglit" and "strait" are two entirely different words that have no connection with each other in English, the former being derived from the Anglo-Saxon, while the latter has come back from the Latin through the Romance. At some point still farther back, however, the two words may have had some common original with the general meaning "to stretch." But in straight the stretched object is a cord from which all curvature is removed, while in strait a solid is thought of, which is drawn out and made narrow, used figuratively in Job 20:22; 36:16; Mt 7:13 f; Php 1:23. Before English spelling had reached a relatively settled stage the spelling of the two words was interchanged occasionally, but in even Elizabethan times this could happen only through ignorance. In English Versions of the Bible the forms are kept distinct with great care. "Straight," then, appears only in the sense "not crooked," in the Old Testament most commonly for some form of yashar, "be smooth" (2Ch 32:30, etc.). In the Apocrypha and New Testament the word is not very common, being used for orthos (Baruch 6:27; Heb 12:13); euthus (Judith 13:20; Mr 1:3 and parallel's), with the verbs anorthoo (Lu 13:13), and euthuno (Joh 1:23; Heb 12:12 the Revised Version margin), "to make straight," and euthudromeo, "to make a straight course" (Ac 16:11; 21:1). For straightway in English Versions of the Bible overwhelmingly the most common word is euthus, or eutheos. the King James Version varies the translation of this adverb by using either "straightway" or "immediately" without distinction, but the Revised Version (British and American) (with a very few exceptions, e.g., Mt 24:29) has adhered to "straightway." The other occurrences in the Bible (1Sa 9:13; 28:20, etc.) represent no special word.
Burton Scott Easton
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.