adjective
prothumem
Strong’sG4289
eager, ready, willing
stem prothum-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πρόθυμος, -ον,
[in LXX: I Ch 28:21, II Ch 29:31 (נָדִיב), Hb 1:8 (חוּשׁ), al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4289 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
ready, willing, eager, π. εἰμι, with infinitive, ={προθυμέομαι}, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἔα πυθέσθαι I was eager to learn, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 with genitive objecti, eager for, ὧν π. ἦσθ᾽ ἀεί Refs 5th c.BC+
3 with Preps., ἐὰν γένῃ π. ἐς τὰ πράγματα Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς τὸν πόλεμονRefs 5th c.BC+
4 absolutely, Refs 5th c.BC+
II bearing goodwill, wishing well, devoted, φύλαξ.. τῇ σῇ π. εἰς ὁδὸν κυναγία Refs 5th c.BC+; εἴς τιναςRefs 5th c.BC+
III adverb -μως readily, zealously, actively, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. υᾶλλον ἢ φίλως with more zeal than kindness, Refs 5th c.BC+; μάχεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἔχειν πρός τι Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative -ότερονRefs 5th c.BC+: superlative -όταταRefs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | prothumos | prothumas | prothumem3×πρόθυμον | prothumois | prothumais | prothumeim |
| object accusative | prothumon | prothuman | prothumoin | prothumain | ||
| direct address vocative | prothumor | prothumar | prothumoir | prothumair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | prothumou | prothumau | prothumeu | prothumoiu | prothumaiu | prothumeiu |
| to, for dative | prothumo | prothuma | prothume | prothumoi | prothumai | prothumei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
prothum is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
prothumem“willing”subject or objectdirect singular3×
Matthew 26:41… eiserchaveia eis peirasmon; tem men pneumem prothumem tas de sarkas asthenas.… into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
Mark 14:38… erchaveia eis peirasmon; tem men pneumem prothumem tas de sarkas asthenas.… into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
Romans 1:15houtōs tem kata min prothumem kai vi toi en Rōma euangelizera.That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to …