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Ready

ἕτοιμοςStrong’s G2092

hetoimos

Appears in 17 verses of the New Testament

In short

Hetoimos is the Greek word usually translated “ready” and “readiness”. It appears in 17 verses of the New Testament.

“Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,”
Titus 3:1 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “ready” and “readiness”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • ready 16
  • readiness 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 4
  • Luke 3
  • 2 Corinthians 3
  • Acts 2
  • 1 Peter 2
  • Mark 1

8 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 17 verses, by book
Mark 1
14:15
John 1
7:6
2 Corinthians 3
9:510:610:16
Titus 1
3:1
1 Peter 2
1:53:15
Greek dictionary

ἕτοιμος hetoimos · ready

ἕτοιμος, -ον also (in cl. after Thuc.) -η (2Co.9:5, 1Pe.1:5), -ον, [in LXX chiefly for כּוּן, מָכוֹן (cf. Hatch, Essays, 51 ff.) ;] prepared, ready; (a) of things: Mat.22:4, 8, Mrk.14:15, 2Co.9:5 10:16, 1Pe.1:5; ἔρχεσθε ὅτι ἤδη ἕτοιμά ἐστιν (Field, Notes, 67), Luk.14:17; ὁ καιρός, Jhn.7:6; (b) of persons: Mat.24:44 25:10, Luk.12:40, Act.23:21; before πρός, Tit.3:1, 1Pe.3:15; with inf., Luk.22:23; τοῦ, with inf. (WM, § 44, 4a; Robertson, Gr., 1068), Act.23:15; ἐν ἑ. ἔχω (MM, Exp., xiv), with inf., 2Co.10:6.† (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

READY, adjective

red'y. [Eng. to rid; redo, ready; rida, to ride; bereda, to prepare. Gr. easy. The primary sense is to go, move, or advance forward, and it seems to be clear that ready ride, read, riddle, are all of one family, and probably from the root of Latin gradior. See Read and Red.]

  1. Quick; prompt; not hesitating; as ready wit; a ready consent.
  2. Quick to receive or comprehend; not slow or dull; as a ready apprehension.
  3. Quick in action or execution; dextrous; as an artist ready in his business; a ready writer. Psalms 45:1
  4. Prompt; not delayed present in hand.
All definitions and other forms of “ready”
  1. Prepared; fitted; furnished with what is necessary, or disposed in a manner suited to the purpose; as a ship ready for sea.“My oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready” Matthew 22:4
  2. Willing; free; cheerful to do or suffer; not backward or reluctant; as a prince always ready to grant the reasonable requests of his subjects.“The spirit is ready but the flesh is weak” Mark 14:38“I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus” Acts 21:13
  3. Willing; disposed.
  4. Being at the point; near; not distant; about to do or suffer.“A Syrian ready to perish was my father” Deuteronomy 26:5
  5. Being nearest or at hand.
  6. Easy; facile; opportune; short; near, or most convenient; the Greek sense.
  7. To make ready to prepare; to provide and put in order.
  8. An elliptical phrase, for make things ready; to make preparations; to prepare.

READY, adverb

red'y. In a state of preparation, so as to need no delay.

  1. “We ourselves will go ready armed before the house of Israel” Numbers 32:17

READY, noun

red'y. For ready money.

    READY, verb transitive

    red'y. To dispose in order; to prepare. [Not in use.]

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

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.