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Ἕτοιμος describes someone or something as ready, prepared, or available for an appointed action. A banquet can be ready for invited guests, an upper room can stand furnished for Passover, and people can be ready to carry out either obedience or murder.
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Ἕτοιμος describes someone or something as ready, prepared, or available for an appointed action. A banquet can be ready for invited guests, an upper room can stand furnished for Passover, and people can be ready to carry out either obedience or murder.
The BSB source-word alignment has 17 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include ready (10), [and] ready (1), [that is] ready (1), already done (1), at hand (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 22:4. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (4), 2 Corinthians (3), Luke (3), 1 Peter (2).
Ἕτοιμος describes someone or something as ready, prepared, or available for an appointed action. A banquet can be ready for invited guests, an upper room can stand furnished for Passover, and people can be ready to carry out either obedience or murder. Jesus commands His disciples to be ready for the Son of Man's unexpected coming, while His statement about His brothers' time shows that availability is not the same as submission to the Father's hour.
Readiness is therefore morally open until the passage supplies the purpose. Biblical preparedness is not anxious prediction or mere efficiency. It is a settled availability shaped by the master's command, the right time, and faithful action.
Ἕτοιμος marks preparedness for a purpose. Banquet welcome, Passover service, watchful discipleship, and a murderous plot demonstrate that readiness receives its moral quality from its object and master.
Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’
Everything is ready for the wedding feast, so the invited guests' refusal exposes contempt for generous summons rather than lack of provision.
And he will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”
The furnished room provides a prepared setting, yet the disciples must still obey Jesus' directions and make the Passover arrangements.
You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect.”
Readiness for the Son of Man means faithful service amid uncertainty, not calculating the hour He has deliberately left unexpected.
Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
Jesus contrasts His divinely governed hour with His brothers' continual opportunity, refusing to let family pressure define His public action.
Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”
The conspirators are ready to kill Paul, proving that determination and preparation are not virtues unless their purpose is righteous.
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Greek word. Prepared in advance and available for use or action, emphasizing completion before the moment of need.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 9 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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Readiness is a posture of available obedience, not mastery over the future. The wedding feast is already prepared, but invitation still demands a fitting response. The upper room is ready, but disciples must follow Jesus' word and undertake their assigned work. Luke 12 places disciples under an absent master's authority and calls them to faithful service because the Son of Man's hour is unknown.
John 7 guards the other side of the truth: Jesus does not act simply because an opportunity seems available; He moves according to the Father's time. Acts 23 shows readiness serving wicked resolve. Churches should prepare carefully, remain interruptible before God, and measure plans by obedience rather than speed, fear, or the appearance of control.
Matt.22.4
Ἕτοιμος is an adjective often completed by an infinitive or prepositional phrase naming the anticipated act. It can describe people, places, meals, or circumstances and does not itself indicate approval.
Passover preparation, priestly service, and prophetic calls to prepare the Lord's way give readiness covenant shape. Jesus summons servants to remain faithful until His return.
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