Ready
עֲתִידStrong’s H6264atid (a-tid)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Atid is the Hebrew word usually translated “ready” and “impending”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.”
Meaning
- Ready, prepared
How it's translated
- ready 3
- impending 1
- the ready 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 2
- Job 2
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 3:14The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.
- Esther 8:13The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
- Job 3:8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
- Job 15:24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Hebrew dictionary
עֲתִיד atid · ready
ready, prepared Aramaic of a.tid (עָתִיד "ready" H6264)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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.]
- Quick; prompt; not hesitating; as ready wit; a ready consent.
- Quick to receive or comprehend; not slow or dull; as a ready apprehension.
- Quick in action or execution; dextrous; as an artist ready in his business; a ready writer. Psalms 45:1
- Prompt; not delayed present in hand.
All definitions and other forms of “ready”
- 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
- 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
- Willing; disposed.
- Being at the point; near; not distant; about to do or suffer.“A Syrian ready to perish was my father” Deuteronomy 26:5
- Being nearest or at hand.
- Easy; facile; opportune; short; near, or most convenient; the Greek sense.
- To make ready to prepare; to provide and put in order.
- 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.
- “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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.