Greek noun (feminine) · G4288
προθυμία
prothymiaproth-oo-mee'-ah
eagerness
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: prothymía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4288is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4288
predisposition, i.e. alacrity
The King James renders it: forwardness of mind, readiness (of mind), ready (willing) mind.
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
prothymia is rendered "eagerness". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in 2 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
Acts 17:11προθυμίας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's five uses are in 2 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- readiness5
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πρόθεσις | prothesis | purpose | Uses12 |
| πρόθυμος | prothymos | eager | Uses3 |
| προθύμως | prothymos | eagerly | Uses1 |
| προθέσμιος | prothesmios | set time | Uses1 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- προθυμία2
- προθυμίαν2
- προθυμίας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
Acts
one use
Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
- προθυμίαςprothumiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: readiness
2 Corinthians
four uses
Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.
- προθυμίαprothumianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: readiness
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
- προθυμίαprothumianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: readiness
More than that, this brother was chosen by the churches to accompany us with the offering—the gracious gift we administer to honor the Lord Himself and to show our eagerness to help.
- προθυμίανprothumiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: readiness
For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting to the Macedonians that since last year you in Achaia were prepared to give. And your zeal has stirred most of them to do likewise.
- προθυμίανprothumiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: readiness
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 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.