kataskeuazō · prepare

What it means

kataskeuazō (κατασκευάζω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “prepare”.

Make ready; build.

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. To get something ready for use.
2. To put up a structure, like a house, a tent or an ark.

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

How it is translated

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

• built ×4
• prepared ×4
• will prepare ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• Hebrews×6
• 1 Peter×1

• Matthew 11:10

  This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

• Mark 1:2

  As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way;

• Luke 1:17

  And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”

• Luke 7:27

  This is the one about whom it is written: Look, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way ahead of you.

• Hebrews 3:3

  For this one has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the one who built it has more honor than the house.

• Hebrews 3:4

  For every house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God.

• Hebrews 9:2

  For a tent was prepared, the first one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the loaves of presentation; this is called the Holy Place.

• Hebrews 9:6

  With these things thus prepared, the priests go continually into the first tent performing the acts of worship;

• Hebrews 11:7

  By faith Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen, in reverence built an ark for the salvation of his house; through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

• 1 Peter 3:20

  who had once disobeyed, when the patience of God was waiting in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.

And 1 more times.