Prothymos means “ready” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4289 — machtah (“censer”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4289 πρόθυμος (prothumos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. prothumos (proth'-oo-mos) adj. 1. forward in spirit, i.e. predisposed 2. (neuter, as noun) alacrity It has 9 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include spirit and ready. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
prothumos (proth'-oo-mos) adj. 1. forward in spirit, i.e. predisposed 2. (neuter, as noun) alacrity [from G4253 and G2372] KJV: ready, willing Root(s): G4253, G2372
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4289. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: πρόθυμος, -ον [in LXX: 1Ch.28:21, 2Ch.29:31 (נָדִיב), Hab.1:8 (חוּשׁ), al. ;] willing, ready: Mat.26:41, Mrk.14:38; neut., τὸ π. = ἡ προθυμία (Thuc., al., 3Ma.5:26), οὕτως τὸ κατ᾽ ἐμὲ (= cl. τὸ ἐμὸν) π., Rom.1:15 (but see ICC, in l).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render prothumos, 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, Septuagint / Greek Old 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 G4289 (πρόθυμος) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And see, here are the courses of the priests and Levites for all the service of the house of the Lord, and there shall be with thee men for every workmanship, and everyone of ready skill in every art: also the chief men and all the people, ready for all thy commands.
Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves to the Lord, bring near and offer sacrifices of praise in the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord; and every one who was ready in his heart brought whole burnt offerings.
And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle hastening to eat.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
that the priests had no courage to serve anymore at the altar, but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of Discus called them forth;
And so comforting them out of the law and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the battles that they won afore, he made them more cheerful.
The sun’s rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realized.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4289.
And see, here are the courses of the priests and Levites for all the service of the house of the Lord, and there shall be with thee men for every workmanship, and everyone of ready skill in every art: also the chief men and all the people, ready for all thy commands.
Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves to the Lord, bring near and offer sacrifices of praise in the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord; and every one who was ready in his heart brought whole burnt offerings.
And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle hastening to eat.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
that the priests had no courage to serve anymore at the altar, but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of Discus called them forth;
And so comforting them out of the law and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the battles that they won afore, he made them more cheerful.
The sun’s rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realized.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4289, grouped by book.
Prothymos (Strong's G4289) is a Greek word most simply glossed "ready". prothumos (proth'-oo-mos) adj. 1. forward in spirit, i.e. predisposed 2. (neuter, as noun) alacrity
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G4289 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4289 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as spirit and ready. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4289, with linked reader references where each row is available.