Greek verb · G2090
ἑτοιμάζω
hetoimazohet-oy-mad'-zo
to make ready
40 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hetoimázō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2090is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 27New Testament books
- 20spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2090
to prepare
The King James renders it: prepare, provide, make ready.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hetoimazo is rendered "to make ready". It stands 40 times in the Greek text, across ten books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 3:3This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
- The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.
The first use
This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
Matthew 3:3ἑτοιμάσατε
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's forty uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- do prepare9
- prepared9
- they prepared3
- we may prepare3
- it has been prepared2
- to make ready2
- to prepare2
- has made ready1
- has prepared1
- having prepared1
- He has prepared1
- I have prepared1
and 5 more, 40 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 40, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
20 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἑτοιμάσατε7
- ἡτοίμασαν6
- ἑτοιμάσαι4
- ἡτοίμασεν3
- ἑτοιμάσωμεν2
- ἡτοίμασας2
- ἡτοιμασμένην2
- ἡτοιμασμένον2
- ἑτοίμαζέ1
- ἑτοιμάσας1
- ἑτοιμασθῇ1
- ἑτοίμασον1
and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person plural7V-AAM-2P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural6V-AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)4V-AAN
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person plural3V-AAS-1P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person singular2V-AAI-2S
- verb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-RPI-3S
- verb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singular2V-RPP-ASF
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular1V-AAM-2S
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singular1V-AAS-1S
- verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-APS-3S
Matthew
seven uses
This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
- ἑτοιμάσατεhetoimasateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do prepare
“You will indeed drink My cup,” Jesus said. “But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom My Father has prepared them.”
- ἡτοίμασταιhetoimastaiverb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it has been prepared
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.’
- ἡτοίμακαhetoimakaverb · perfect active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I have prepared
Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
- ἡτοιμασμένηνhetoimasmenenverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: prepared
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- ἡτοιμασμένονhetoimasmenonverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: prepared
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
- ἑτοιμάσωμένhetoimasomenverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: we may prepare
So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.
- ἡτοίμασανhetoimasanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: prepared
Mark
five uses
“A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
- ἑτοιμάσατεhetoimasateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do prepare
But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”
- ἡτοίμασται.¶hetoimastaiverb · perfect passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it has been prepared
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
- ἑτοιμάσωμενhetoimasomenverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: we may prepare
And he will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”
- ἑτοιμάσατεhetoimasateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do prepare
So the disciples left and went into the city, where they found everything as Jesus had described. And they prepared the Passover.
- ἡτοίμασανhetoimasanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they prepared
Luke
fourteen uses
And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
- ἑτοιμάσαιhetoimasaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make ready
And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,
- ἑτοιμάσαιhetoimasaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to prepare
which You have prepared in the sight of all people,
- ἡτοίμασαςhetoimasasverb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: You have prepared
as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.
- ἑτοιμάσατεhetoimasateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do prepare
He sent messengers on ahead, who went into a village of the Samaritans to make arrangements for Him.
- ἑτοιμάσαιhetoimasaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make ready
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- ἡτοίμασαςhetoimasasverb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you did prepare —
That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.
- ἑτοιμάσαςhetoimasasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having prepared
Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink’?
- ἑτοίμασονhetoimasonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do prepare
Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare for us to eat the Passover.”
- ἑτοιμάσατεhetoimasateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do prepare
“Where do You want us to prepare it?” they asked.
- ἑτοιμάσωμενhetoimasomenverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: we may prepare
And he will show you a large upper room, already furnished. Make preparations there.”
- ἑτοιμάσατεhetoimasateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do prepare
So they went and found it just as Jesus had told them. And they prepared the Passover.
- ἡτοίμασανhetoimasanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they prepared
Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.
- ἡτοίμασανhetoimasanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they prepared
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.
- ἡτοίμασανhetoimasanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they had prepared
John
two uses
In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
- ἑτοιμάσαιhetoimasaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to prepare
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.
- ἑτοιμάσωhetoimasoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: shall prepare
Acts
one use
Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.
- ἑτοιμάσατεhetoimasateverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do prepare
1 Corinthians
one use
Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
- ἡτοίμασενhetoimasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has prepared
2 Timothy
one use
So if anyone cleanses himself of what is unfit, he will be a vessel for honor: sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work.
- ἡτοιμασμένον.¶hetoimasmenonverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: prepared
Philemon
one use
In the meantime, prepare a guest room for me, because I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
- ἑτοίμαζέhetoimazeverb · present active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do prepare
Hebrews
one use
Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
- ἡτοίμασενhetoimasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He has prepared
Revelation
seven uses
And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
- ἡτοίμασανhetoimasanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: prepared
And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.
- ἡτοιμασμένοιςhetoimasmenoisverb · perfect passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: prepared
So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
- ἡτοιμασμένοιhetoimasmenoiverb · perfect passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: prepared
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.
- ἡτοιμασμένονhetoimasmenonverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: prepared
And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
- ἑτοιμασθῇhetoimastheaverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: may be prepared
Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.
- ἡτοίμασενhetoimasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has made ready
I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- ἡτοιμασμένηνhetoimasmenenverb · perfect passive, participle · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: prepared
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
