Word study

Easily

3 Hebrew and 4 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “easily”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “easily” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • מְעַט meaṭa little, fewness, a fewtranslated this way 1 time of its 92 uses · Strong’s H4592Adjective  ·  Translated: little 35, few 18, enough 10, soon 3

    Genesis 26:10 “What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

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  • מְנוּחָה menûchâhresting-place, resttranslated this way 1 time of its 21 uses · Strong’s H4496Noun  ·  Translated: resting place 7, rest 5, place of rest 3

    Judges 20:43 They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.

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  • קָלַל qâlalbe slight, swift, triflingtranslated this way 1 time of its 82 uses · Strong’s H7043Verb  ·  Translated: curse 15, cursed 8, curses 5, swifter 5

    Proverbs 14:6 A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • παροξύνω paroxýnōI provoke, irritatetranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s G3947Verb  ·  Translated: deeply disturbed 1, easily angered 1

    1 Corinthians 13:5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

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  • καλῶς kalōswell, nobly, rightlytranslated this way 1 time of its 34 uses · Strong’s G2573Adverb  ·  Translated: well 14, good 4, correctly 3, right 3

    2 Corinthians 11:4 For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it very easily.

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  • σαλεύω saleúōI shake, excitetranslated this way 1 time of its 15 uses · Strong’s G4531Verb  ·  Translated: shaken 6, swaying 2, shook 2

    2 Thessalonians 2:2 not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter seeming to be from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has already come.

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  • εὐπερίστατος euperístatoseasily encirclingtranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G2139Adjective  ·  Translated: easily entangles 1

    Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.