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ἑτοιμάζω

to prepare

‘to prepare’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G2090 Strong's Greek
hetoimázō Transliteration
/het-oy-mad'-zo/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 41 appearances

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About this entry

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ετοιμαζω (hetoimázō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to prepare.” Where the King James Version says “prepared,” newer translations reach for “prepare” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Greek New Testament uses it across 41 verses — moderately common. Luke dominates its distribution — 14 of 41 verses. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
prepare
Modern gloss
to prepare
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G2090 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

41
distinct verses
The word appears in 41 distinct verses.
10 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 3:3
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 3:3.
Revelation 21:2
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 21:2.
#364
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 364 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 41 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 29 · 71%
  • Acts 1 · 2%
  • Pauline Epistles 3 · 7%
  • General Epistles 1 · 2%
  • Revelation 7 · 17%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 41 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 29 verses · 71%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 15 verses · 37%
  • Johannine 9 verses · 22%
  • Revelation 7 verses · 17%
  • Pauline corpus 3 verses · 7%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 2%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Prepared 9×, Make ready 6×, Prepare 6×
  • American Standard Version: Make ready 9×, Prepared 7×, Make ye 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Prepare 14×, Prepared 7×, Make preparations 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Prepare 10×, Prepared 5×, Make ready 4×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2090 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Prepared” 9×
  • “Make ready” 6×
  • “Prepare” 6×
  • “Prepare ye” 3×
  • “They made ready” 3×
  • “Is prepared” 2×
  • “We prepare” 2×

Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2090 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Make ready” 9×
  • “Prepared” 7×
  • “Make ye” 3×
  • “Prepare” 3×
  • “They made ready” 3×
  • “Hath been prepared” 2×
  • “Ready” 2×
  • “Thou hast prepared” 2×
  • “We make ready” 2×

Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2090 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Prepare” 14×
  • “Prepared” 7×
  • “Make preparations” 3×
  • “They prepared” 2×

Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2090 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Prepare” 10×
  • “Prepared” 5×
  • “Make ready” 4×
  • “They prepared” 4×
  • “Has been prepared” 3×
  • “It” 3×
  • “Having been prepared” 2×
  • “You have prepared” 2×

Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to make the necessary preparations, get everything ready
  2. metaph.

Word origin

Derived from ετοιμος (hétoimos) (G2092) — ready.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 13:44,3

From G2092 ; to prepare : - prepare provide make ready. Compare G2680 .

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 19 distinct written forms G2090 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἑτοιμάσατε hetoimásate Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 3:3 7
ἡτοίμασαν hētoímasan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 26:19 6
ἑτοιμάσαι hetoimásai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Luke 1:17 4
ἡτοιμασμένον hētoimasménon Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Revelation 12:6 3
ἡτοίμασεν hētoímasen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 2:9 3
ἑτοιμάσωμεν hetoimásōmen Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Mark 14:12 2
ἡτοίμασας hētoímasas Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 2:31 2
ἡτοίμασται hētoímastai Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 20:23 2
ἡτοιμασμένην hētoimasménēn Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 25:34 2
ἑτοίμαζέ hetoímazé Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Philemon 1:22 1
ἑτοίμασον hetoímason Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 17:8 1
ἑτοιμάσαντες hetoimásantes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Mark 15:1 1
ἑτοιμάσας hetoimásas Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 12:47 1
ἑτοιμάσω hetoimásō Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular John 14:3 1
ἑτοιμάσωμέν hetoimásōmén Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Matthew 26:17 1
ἑτοιμασθῇ hetoimasthē̂ Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 16:12 1
ἡτοίμακα hētoímaka Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Matthew 22:4 1
ἡτοιμασμένοι hētoimasménoi Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Revelation 9:15 1
ἡτοιμασμένοις hētoimasménois Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine Revelation 9:7 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2090, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ετοιμαζω appears 133 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 126 verses in 25 books.

133
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
126
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
25 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 25 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2090) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 126. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2090) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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