Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
quick
Usage: ταχύς, -εῖα, -ύ [in LXX chiefly for מָהַר pi. ;] quick, swift, speedy: opposite to βραδύς, Ja 119.† (AS)
Tachys means “swift” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5036 — nabal (“vile person”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5036 ταχύς (tachus) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. tachus (takh-oos') adj. 1. swift, fleet 2. (figuratively) prompt or ready It has 28 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include swift. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
tachus (takh-oos') adj. 1. swift, fleet 2. (figuratively) prompt or ready [of uncertain affinity] KJV: swift
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quick
Usage: ταχύς, -εῖα, -ύ [in LXX chiefly for מָהַר pi. ;] quick, swift, speedy: opposite to βραδύς, Ja 119.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tachus, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5036 (ταχύς) appears 27 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
14 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Isaac said to his son, What is this which thou hast quickly found? And he said, That which the Lord thy God presented before me.
and the Lord be angry with you, and restrain the heaven; and there shall not be rain, and the earth shall not yield its fruit, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land, which the Lord has given you.
The Lord send upon thee want, and famine, and consumption on all things on which thou shalt put thy hand, until he shall have utterly destroyed thee, and until he shall have consumed thee quickly because of thine evil devices, because thou hast forsaken me.
13 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
O ye men, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he compasseth the heavens round about, and fetcheth his course again to his own place in one day.
Whereof when he heard, he was angry, and immediately removing, he came to Ptolemais, and wrote unto Jonathan, that he should not lay siege to the tower, but come and speak with him at Ptolemais in great haste.
Then came the king in all haste to appease matters, leaving Andronicus, a man in authority, for his deputy.
First 28 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5036.
And Isaac said to his son, What is this which thou hast quickly found? And he said, That which the Lord thy God presented before me.
and the Lord be angry with you, and restrain the heaven; and there shall not be rain, and the earth shall not yield its fruit, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land, which the Lord has given you.
The Lord send upon thee want, and famine, and consumption on all things on which thou shalt put thy hand, until he shall have utterly destroyed thee, and until he shall have consumed thee quickly because of thine evil devices, because thou hast forsaken me.
Go, I pray you, and make preparations yet, and notice his place where his foot shall be, quickly, in that place which ye spoke of, lest by any means he should deal craftily.
And from Gad these separated themselves to David from the wilderness, strong mighty men of war, bearing shields and spears, and their faces were as the face of a lion, and they were nimble as roes upon the mountains in speed.
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
Accept correction, lest at any time the Lord be angry, And ye should perish from the righteous way: Whensoever his wrath shall be suddenly kindled, Blessed are all they that trust in him.
But a hasty witness has an unjust tongue.
The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly to vengeance.
and I will quickly cast down thee and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall on the face of the plain, and shalt by no means be gathered, and shalt not be brought together: I have given thee for food to the wild beasts of the earth and to the fowls of the sky.
And the Lord shall give a command concerning thee; there shall no more of thy name be scattered: I will utterly destroy the graven images out of the house of thy god, and the molten images: I will make thy grave; for they are swift.
For the great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and very speedy; the sound of the day of the Lord is made bitter and harsh.
And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling’s wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord Almighty.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
O ye men, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he compasseth the heavens round about, and fetcheth his course again to his own place in one day.
Whereof when he heard, he was angry, and immediately removing, he came to Ptolemais, and wrote unto Jonathan, that he should not lay siege to the tower, but come and speak with him at Ptolemais in great haste.
Then came the king in all haste to appease matters, leaving Andronicus, a man in authority, for his deputy.
So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed in all haste unto Antioch, weening in his pride to make the land navigable, and the sea passable by foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.
This was no sooner spoken of him, but others of the king’s friends, being maliciously set against Judas, did more incense Demetrius.
He would also invade Judea, and level its towns with fire and the sword; and destroy that temple which the heathen might not enter, and prevent sacrifices ever after being offered up there.
For while all things were in quiet silence, And that night was in the midst of her swift course,
Be swift to hear; and let thy life be sincere; And with patience give answer.
A foolish man’s foot is soon in his neighbor’s house: But a man of experience is ashamed of him.
Unless a man hold himself diligently in the fear of the Lord, His house shall soon be overthrown.
For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you: and joy is come unto me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting your Savior.
Like as now the neighbors of Zion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from your God, which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.
My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for thine enemy hath persecuted thee; but shortly thou shalt see his destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5036, grouped by book.
Tachys (Strong's G5036) is a Greek word most simply glossed "swift". tachus (takh-oos') adj. 1. swift, fleet 2. (figuratively) prompt or ready
This page currently indexes 28 linked usages for Strong's G5036 across 20 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5036 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as swift. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 14 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 13 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5036, with linked reader references where each row is available.