3904. paraskeué
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paraskeué: preparation, the day of preparation (for a Sabbath or feast)
Original Word: παρασκευή, ῆς, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: paraskeué
Phonetic Spelling: (par-ask-yoo-ay')
Short Definition: the day before the Sabbath
Definition: the day of preparation, the day before the Sabbath, Friday.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from paraskeuazó
Definition
preparation, the day of preparation (for a Sabbath or feast)
NASB Translation
day (1), day of preparation (3), preparation (2), preparation day (1).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 3904: παρασκευή

παρασκευή, παρασκευῆς, , from Herodotus down;

1. a making ready, preparation, equipping.

2. that which is prepared, equipment.

3. in the N. T. in a Jewish sense, the day of preparation, i. e. the day on which the Jews made the necessary preparation to celebrate a sabbath or a feast: Matthew 27:62; Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:31 (Josephus, Antiquities 16, 6, 2); with a genitive of the object, τοῦ πάσχα (according to Winer's Grammar, 189 (177f) a possessive genitive), John 19:14 (cf. Rückert, Abendmahl, p. 31f); with a genitive of the subjunctive, τῶν Ἰουδαίων, ibid. 42. Cf. Bleek, Beiträge zur Evangelienkritik, p. 114ff; (on later usage cf. 'Teaching 8, 1 [ET] (and Harnack's note); Martyr. Polycarp, 7, 1 [ET] (and Zahn's note); Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word, 3).



Strong's
preparation.

As if from paraskeuazo; readiness -- preparation.

see GREEK paraskeuazo

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