Strong's #2090: hetoimazo (pronounced het-oy-mad'-zo)

from 2092; to prepare:--prepare, provide, make ready. Compare 2680.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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hetoimazō

1) to make ready, prepare

1a) to make the necessary preparations, get everything ready

2) metaphorically

2a) drawn from the oriental custom of sending on before kings on their journeys persons to level the roads and make them passable

2b) to prepare the minds of men to give the Messiah a fit reception and secure his blessings

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G2092

Citing in TDNT: 2:704, 266

Usage:

This word is used 40 times:

 

Matthew 3:3: "in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make"
Matthew 20:23: "to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father."
Matthew 22:4: "Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen"
Matthew 25:34: "inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:"
Matthew 25:41: "into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his"
Matthew 26:17: "unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?"
Matthew 26:19: "had appointed them; and they made ready the passover."
Mark 1:3: "in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make"
Mark 10:40: "to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared."
Mark 14:12: "Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?"
Mark 14:15: "furnished and prepared: there make ready for us."
Mark 14:16: "he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover."
Luke 1:17: "to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
Luke 1:76: "before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;"
Luke 2:31: "Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;"
Luke 3:4: "in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make"
Luke 9:52: "a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him."
Luke 12:20: "whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?"
Luke 12:47: "lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to"
Luke 17:8: "will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird"
Luke 22:8: "John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that"
Luke 22:9: "unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?"
Luke 22:12: "upper room furnished: there make ready."
Luke 22:13: "he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover."
Luke 23:56: "And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested"
Luke 24:1: "sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with"
John 14:2: "so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."
John 14:3: "if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again,"
Acts 23:23: "him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go"
1 Corinthians 2:9: "into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."
2 Timothy 2:21: "sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every"
Philemon 1:22: "But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust"
Hebrews 11:16: "their God: for he hath prepared for them a city."
Revelation 8:6: "the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound."
Revelation 9:7: "locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on"
Revelation 9:15: "four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day,"
Revelation 12:6: "where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed"
Revelation 16:12: "kings of the east might be prepared."
Revelation 19:7: "and his wife hath made herself ready."
Revelation 21:2: "God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her"