Lexicon paraskeuazó: to prepare, make ready Original Word: παρασκευάζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: paraskeuazó Phonetic Spelling: (par-ask-yoo-ad'-zo) Short Definition: I prepare Definition: I prepare; mid: I prepare, make preparations. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom para and skeuazó (to prepare, make ready) Definitionto prepare, make ready NASB Translationmaking preparations (1), prepare (1), prepared (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3903: παρασκευάζωπαρασκευάζω; perfect passive παρεσκεύασμαι; future middle παρασκευάσομαι; from Herodotus down; to make ready, prepare: namely, τό δεῖπνον (added in Herodotus 9, 82; Athen. 4, 15, p. 138), Acts 10:10 ( συμπόσιον, Halt. 9, 15; 2 Macc. 2:27). Middle to make oneself ready, to prepare oneself (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 38, 2 a.): εἰς πόλεμον, 1 Corinthians 14:8 ( Jeremiah 27:42 (); εἰς μάχην, εἰς ναυμαχιαν, etc., in Xenophon). Perfect passive in middle sense, to have prepared oneself, to be prepared or ready, 2 Corinthians 9:2f (see Matthiae, § 493).
Strong's prepare self, make ready. From para and a derivative of skeuos; to furnish aside, i.e. Get ready -- prepare self, be (make) ready. see GREEK para see GREEK skeuos |
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