Ready
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"prepared, ready" (akin to hetoimasia, "preparation"), is used (a) of persons, Matthew 24:44; 25:10; Luke 12:40; 22:33; Acts 23:15,21 (for 2—Corinthians 10:6 , see above); Titus 3:1; 1—Peter 3:15; (b) of things, Matthew 22:4 (2nd part),8; Mark 14:15 , Rv , "ready" (AV, "prepared"); Luke 14:17; John 7:6; 2—Corinthians 9:5; 10:16 , Rv , "things ready" (AV, "things made ready"); 1—Peter 1:5 . See Prepare , No. 5, Note (2).
"predisposed, willing" (akin to prothumia, see Readiness is translated "ready" in Romans 1:15 , expressive of willingness, eagerness: in Mark 14:38 , Rv , "willing" (AV, "ready"); in Matthew 26:41 . "willing." See Willing.
"to be about to," is translated "to be ready" in 2—Peter 1:12 , RV, where the future indicates that the Apostle will be prepared, as in the past and the present, to remind his readers of the truths they know (some mss. have ouk ameleso, "I will not be negligent," AV; cp., however, ver. 15. Field, in Notes on the Translation of the NT, suggests that the true reading is meleso, the future of melo, "to be a care, or an object of care"); in Revelation 3:2 , RV, "were ready" (some texts have the present tense, as in the AV). Elsewhere, where the AV has the rendering to be ready, the RV gives renderings in accordance with the usual significance as follows: Luke 7:2 , "was ... at the point of;" Acts 20:7 , "intending;" Revelation 12:4 , "about (to)."
"make ready:" see Prepare , B, No. 1.
"to prepare, make ready:" see Prepare , B, No. 4.
Prepare
"readily" (akin to A, No. 1), is used with echo, "to have," lit., "to have readily," i.e., "to be in readiness, to be ready," Acts 21:13; 2—Corinthians 12:14; 1—Peter 4:5 .
Hebrews 8:13Nigh. 1—Timothy 6:18Distribute 2—Timothy 4:6Offer. 1—Peter 5:2
King James Dictionary [2]
Ready a. red'y. Eng. to rid redo, ready rida, to ride bereda, to prepare. Gr. easy. The primary sense is to go, move, or advance forward, and it seems to be clear that ready, ride, read, riddle, are all of one family, and probably from the root of L. gradior. See Read and Red.
1. Quick prompt not hesitating as ready wit a ready consent. 2. Quick to receive or comprehend not slow or dull as a ready apprehension. 3. Quick in action or execution dextrous as an artist ready in his business a ready writer. Psalms 45 . 4. Prompt not delayed present in hand. He makes ready payment he pays ready money for every thing he buys. 5. Prepared fitted furnished with what is necessary, or disposed in a manner suited to the purpose as a ship ready for sea.
My oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Matthew 22 .
6. Willing free cheerful to do or suffer not backward or reluctant as a prince always ready to grant the reasonable requests of his subjects.
The spirit is ready, but the flesh is weak. Mark 14 .
I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. Acts 21 .
7. Willing disposed. Men are generally ready to impute blame to others. They are more ready to give than to take reproof. 8. Being at the point near not distant about to do or suffer.
A Syrian ready to perish was my father. Deuteronomy 26 . Job 29 . Psalms 88 .
9. Being nearest or at hand.
A sapling pine he wrench'd from out the ground, the readiest weapon that his fury found.
10. Easy facile opportune short near, or most convenient the Greek sense.
Sometimes the readiest way which a wise man has to conquer, is to flee.
Through the wild desert, not the readiest way.
The ready way to be thought mad, is to contend you are not so.
1. To make ready, to prepare to provide and put in order. 2. An elliptical phrase, for make things ready to make preparations to prepare.
READY, adv. red'y. In a state of preparation, so as to need no delay.
We ourselves will go ready armed before the house of Israel. Numbers 32 .
READY, n. red'y. For ready money.
Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts. A low word.
READY, red'y. To dispose in order to prepare. Not in use.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. t.) To dispose in order.
(2): ( adv.) In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay.
(3): ( superl.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim.
(4): ( superl.) On the point; about; on the brink; near; - with a following infinitive.
(5): ( superl.) Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient; near; easy.
(6): ( superl.) Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey.
(7): ( superl.) Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished.
(8): ( superl.) Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed.
(9): ( n.) Ready money; cash; - commonly with the; as, he was well supplied with the ready.
(10): ( superl.) Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
red´i ( מהיר , māhı̄r ): Occurs twice in the sense of apt, skillful ( Ezra 7:6; Psalm 45:1 ). the Revised Version (British and American) gives "ready" for "fit" ( Proverbs 24:27 ), for "asketh" ( Micah 7:3 ), for "prepared" ( Mark 14:15 ), for "not be negligent" ( 2 Peter 1:12 ).
