עָתִיד
ready
‘ready’ is one of 5 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6264 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Isaiah
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, עתיד (ʻâthîyd) means “ready.” Carrying more than one sense, it rewards its full sense range. Spanning 6 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Esther (33% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Deuteronomy 32:35. Dig into 6-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6264 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Esther 2 verses 33%
- Job 2 verses 33%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 17%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 67%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 17%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 17%
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: Are ready 1×, Ready 1×, Should be ready 1×
- American Standard Version: Are ready 1×, King ready 1×, Should be ready 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Doom 1×, Poised 1×, Prepared 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ready 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6264 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6264 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6264 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6264 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. abs. עָתִיד לַכִּידוֹר Jb 15:24 a king ready for the onset; pl. עֲתִדִים לַיּוֹם Est 3:14 ready for the day, so 8:13 Qr (Kt עתודים). e.g. Job 15:24
- 2. ready = skilled הָעֲתִידִים עֹרֵר Jb 3:8 those skilled in rousing Leviathan. e.g. Job 3:8
- 3. prepared = impending (cf. NH = future), fpl. וְחָשׁ עֲתִדֹת Dt 32:35 the impending things are hastening (‖ קָרוֹב יוֹם אֵידָם). e.g. Deuteronomy 32:35
- 4. prepared = stored up, ועתידתיהם Is 10:13 Kt (Qr וַעֲתוּדֹתֵיהֶם, to differentiate it from above) and their stores have I plundered. e.g. Isaiah 10:13
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
[עָתוּד] adj. ready, prepared;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עתד (ʻâthad) (H6257) — to prepare.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עָתִיד
- standing (cmp. עָמַד); ready, designated; in future. Meg. 15ᵇ; Snh. 111ᵇ ע׳ הקב"ה להיות וכ׳ at a future time the Lord shall be a crown on the head of every righteous man. Sabb. 138ᵇ ע׳ תורה שתשתכח וכ׳ a time will come when the Law will be forgotten in Israel; a. fr.—הֶעָ׳ לָבֹא (or הֶעָ׳) the future. Keth. 87ᵃ משביעין אותה על הע׳ לבא we administer an oath to her in regard to her conduct in the future, opp. על שעבר; a. fr.—Esp. לֶעָתִיד לָבֹא (abbrev. לע"ל) in the Messianic future; in the hereafter (v. עוֹלָם). Ab. Zar. 3ᵇ לע"ל באין אומות וכ׳ in the Messianic days the nations of the world will come and ask to be converted. Ib. אין גהינם לע"ל there is no Gehenna (hell) in the hereafter, but the Lord leads the sun forth &c. Ab. II, 16 ודע שמתן … לע"ל but remember that the reward of the righteous is reserved for the hereafter; a. fr.—Pl. עֲתִידִים, עֲתִידִין; עֲתִידוֹת. Ber. 43ᵇ ע׳ בחורי ישראל וכ׳ the time will come when the youths of Israel shall give forth a flavor &c. Sabb. 152ᵇ ע׳ צדיקים דהוו עפרא (even) the righteous are destined to turn to dust. Yeb. 63ᵃ ע׳ כל בעלי … שיעמדו וכ׳ time will be when all tradesmen will turn to agriculture; a. fr.—[Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. VII, 12 עתידין, v. עֲכִירִים.]
עֲתִיד
- , ready, destined; future. Targ. O. Deut. XXXII, 35. Targ. Hab. II, 1 קאים ע׳ (h. text נצב). Targ. Cant. VIII, 5; a. fr.—Taan. 10ᵃ עתידה בבל דחצדא וכ׳ Ms. M. a time will come when Babylonia &c., v. חֲצַד I.—Pl. עֲתִידִין, עֲתִידֵי; עֲתִידָן. Targ. Cant. l. c.; a. e.—Taan. 25ᵃ חזאי בחלמא ע׳ צדיקי וכ׳ (differ. vers. in Ms. M.) I saw in a dream that the righteous are destined to eat at a golden table. Sabb. 152ᵇ ע׳ צדיקי דהוו עפרא, v. preced.; a. e. e.g. Habakkuk 2:1
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H6264 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הָ֝/עֲתִידִ֗ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Job 3:8 | 1 |
| ו/עתידתי/הם | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 10:13 | 1 |
| וַ/עֲתוּדֽוֹתֵי/הֶם֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 10:13 | 1 |
| עֲתִדִ֖ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Esther 3:14 | 1 |
| עֲתִדֹ֥ת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 32:35 | 1 |
| עֲתִידִים֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Esther 8:13 | 1 |
| עָתִ֬יד | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 15:24 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6264, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
