Surely

Usually translated “all means”, “at all” and “surely”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• by all means 3
• at all 3
• surely 1
• certainly 1
• entirely 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• 1 Corinthians 4
• Acts 3
• Luke 1
• Romans 1

4 books in all.

• Surely (akh)
• Not! (ouchi)
• Surely not (mēti)
• Surely (akhen)

• Acts 18:21But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
• Acts 21:22What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.
• Acts 28:4And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
• Romans 3:9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
• 1 Corinthians 5:10Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
• 1 Corinthians 9:10Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “surely” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.