Dictionaries :: Forthwith

King James Dictionary

Forthwith: Immediately.

And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and FORTHWITH they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. (Matthew 13:4-6)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Forthwith:

"at once" (from, ek, "out of," and autes, the genitive case of autos, "self or very," agreeing with "hour" understood, i.e., "from that very hour"), is translated "forthwith" in the RV in Mar 6:25 (AV, "by and by"); Act 10:33 (AV, "immediately"); 11:11 (ditto); 21:32 (ditto); 23:30 (AV, "straightway"); Phl 2:23 (AV, "presently"). The word is frequent in the period of the koine Greek (see Preface).
See IMMEDIATELY, PRESENTLY, STRAIGHTWAY.

Forthwith:

"at once, straightway" (from the adjective, euthus, "straight"), is translated "forthwith," in the AV of Mat 13:5; 26:49; (it occurs in some mss. in Mar 5:13; the RV omits it); Act 12:10; 21:30 (RV, "straightway," in each place).
See IMMEDIATELY, SHORTLY, STRAIGHTWAY.

Forthwith:

an alternative adverb to No. 2, is translated "forthwith" in the AV of Mar 1:29; 1:43 (in the best mss.), and Jhn 19:34 (RV, "straightway").
See ANON, IMMEDIATELY, STRAIGHTWAY.

Note: Parachrema, a synonymous word denoting "instantly, on the spot," is not translated "forthwith" in AV or RV.
See IMMEDIATELY.