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# עָתֹד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6257

**be ready** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be ready [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6257/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָתֹד: vb. be ready [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6257/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be ready (NH adj. עָתִיד future (as prepared); Arabic عَتُدَ be ready, prepared (also great, bulky); Syriac ܥܬܰܕ, 𝔗 in der. spec. and deriv.);— Imv. ms. sf. וְעַתְּדָתּ Pr 24:27 and make it ready i.e. thy work (‖ הָכֵן). Pf. 3 pl. הִתְעַתְּדוּ לְגַלִּים Jb 15:28 which \[houses\] were prepared (destined) for (i.e. to be) heaps of ruin.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: make (1); they are destined (1).

## In the verses

[Job 15:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.28/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁכּ֤וֹן ׀ עָ֘רִ֤ים נִכְחָד֗וֹת בָּ֭תִּים לֹא־יֵ֣שְׁבוּ לָ֑מוֹ אֲשֶׁ֖ר הִתְעַתְּד֣וּ לְגַלִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.dwelt cities destroyed houses \[which\].not people.will.dwell (for themselves which they.are.destined for heaps.of.stones

*JPS 1917:* And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would inhabit, which were ready to become heaps.

[Proverbs 24:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.24.27/#tree)

הָ֘כֵ֤ן בַּח֨וּץ ׀ מְלַאכְתֶּ֗ךָ וְעַתְּדָ֣הּ בַּשָּׂדֶ֣ה לָ֑ךְ אַ֝חַ֗ר וּבָנִ֥יתָ בֵיתֶֽךָ׃פ

*Word for word:* establish on the outside work your and make it.ready in the field for yourself after and you.will.build house your

*JPS 1917:* Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thy house.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6257.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6257/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).