adverb
prothumōs
Strong’sG4290
readily
stem prothumō-once in the New Testamentnever changes form
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.
προθύμως,
[in LXX: II Ch 29:34 (לֵבָב יִשְׁרֵי), To 7:8, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4290 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidproth-oo'-moce
with alacrity
Fromadverb from G4289;
King Jameswillingly.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
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1 Peter 5:2“eagerly”… hekousiōs kata theon, mēde aischrokerdōs alla prothumōs,… compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not out of greed, but out of …