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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Shortly:

"straightway, directly," is translated "shortly" in 3Jo 1:14. The general use of the word suggests something sooner than "shortly."
See FORTHWITH, STRAIGHTWAY.

Shortly:

See QUICKLY, No. 3.

Shortly:

See QUICKLY, No. 2.

Shortly:

See QUICKLY, No. 4.

Note: In 2Pe 1:14, AV, tachinos, an adjective denoting "swift" (akin to the above), is translated "shortly" (RV, "swiftly"), lit., "the putting off of my tabernacle is swift" (i.e., in its approach). Cp. 2Pe 2:1.