Paraskeue means “preparation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3904 — lechenah (“concubine”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3904 παρασκευή (paraskeue) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. paraskeue (par-ask-yoo-ay') n. 1. readiness [as if from G3903] It has 9 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include preparation. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
paraskeue (par-ask-yoo-ay') n. 1. readiness [as if from G3903] KJV: preparation Root(s): G3903
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Preparation
Usage: παρα-σκευή, -ῆς, ἡ [in LXX: Exo.35:24 39:42 (עֲבֹדָה, with seel., ἀποσκ-, κατασκ-), Jdth.2:17 4:5, 1Ma.9:35 א, 2Ma.15:21 * ;] __1. preparation. __2. equipment (Jth, ll with). __3. In Jewish usage, the day of preparation for a Sabbath or a feast (= προσάββατον, which see) : Mat.27:62, Mrk.15:42, Luk.23:54, Jhn.19:31; with genitive, τοῦ πάσχα, Jhn.19:14; τ. Ἰoυδαίων, Jhn.19:42 (it is the name for Friday in MGr.).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render paraskeue, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3904 (παρασκευή) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And he took camels and asses for their carriages, a very great number; and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision:
and possessed themselves beforehand of all the tops of the high mountains, and fortified the villages that were in them, and laid up victuals for the provision of war: for their fields were of late reaped.
Maccabeus seeing the coming of the multitude, and the diverse preparations of armor, and the fierceness of the beasts, stretched out his hands toward heaven, and called upon the Lord that worketh wonders, knowing that victory cometh not by arms, but even as it seemeth good to him, he giveth it to such as are worthy:
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3904.
Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
And he took camels and asses for their carriages, a very great number; and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision:
and possessed themselves beforehand of all the tops of the high mountains, and fortified the villages that were in them, and laid up victuals for the provision of war: for their fields were of late reaped.
Maccabeus seeing the coming of the multitude, and the diverse preparations of armor, and the fierceness of the beasts, stretched out his hands toward heaven, and called upon the Lord that worketh wonders, knowing that victory cometh not by arms, but even as it seemeth good to him, he giveth it to such as are worthy:
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Paraskeue (Strong's G3904) is a Greek word most simply glossed "preparation". paraskeue (par-ask-yoo-ay') n. 1. readiness [as if from G3903]
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G3904 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3904 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as preparation. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3904, with linked reader references where each row is available.