hetoimos · ready

What it means

hetoimos (ἕτοιμος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “ready”.

Prepared.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Having everything set, or one's mind made up, to do something.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• ready ×16
• things already prepared ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×1
• Luke×3
• John×1
• Acts×2
• 2 Corinthians×3
• Titus×1
• 1 Peter×2

• Matthew 22:4

  Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look, I have prepared my dinner, my bulls and the fattened animals have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’

• Matthew 22:8

  Then he says to his slaves, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

• Matthew 24:44

  Because of this you also must be ready, because at an hour you do not expect the Son of Man is coming.

• Matthew 25:10

  And while they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

• Mark 14:15

  And he will show you a large upstairs room furnished and ready; and prepare for us there.”

• Luke 12:40

  You also be ready, because at an hour you do not expect the Son of Man is coming.”

• Luke 14:17

  And he sent his slave at the hour of the dinner to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

• Luke 22:33

  And he said to him, “Lord, with you I am ready to go both to prison and to death.”

• John 7:6

  So Jesus says to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

• Acts 23:15

  Now therefore you, together with the council, notify the commander so that he may bring down him to you, as though you were going to determine more exactly the things about him; and we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

• Acts 23:21

  So you must not be persuaded by them, for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him; and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you.”

• 2 Corinthians 9:5

  So I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance your previously promised blessing, so that this may be ready in this way: as a blessing and not as greed.

• 2 Corinthians 10:6

  and being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

• 2 Corinthians 10:16

  so as to proclaim the good news in the regions beyond you, not to boast in another’s rule of things already prepared.

• Titus 3:1

  Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

• 1 Peter 1:5

  who are being guarded by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

• 1 Peter 3:15

  but sanctify the Messiah as Lord in your hearts, always ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you;