Lexical Summary paraskeuē: preparation, the day of preparation (for a Sabbath or feast) Original Word: παρασκευήTransliteration: paraskeuē Phonetic Spelling: (par-ask-yoo-ay') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: preparation, the day of preparation (for a Sabbath or feast) Meaning: preparation, the day of preparation (for a Sabbath or feast) Strong's Concordance preparation. As if from paraskeuazo; readiness -- preparation. see GREEK paraskeuazo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3904: παρασκευήπαρασκευή, παρασκευῆς, ἡ, from Herodotus down; 1. a making ready, preparation, equipping. 2. that which is prepared, equipment. 3. in the N. T. in a Jewish sense, the day of preparation, i. e. the day on which the Jews made the necessary preparation to celebrate a sabbath or a feast: Matthew 27:62; Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:31 (Josephus, Antiquities 16, 6, 2); with a genitive of the object, τοῦ πάσχα (according to Winer's Grammar, 189 (177f) a possessive genitive), John 19:14 (cf. Rückert, Abendmahl, p. 31f); with a genitive of the subjunctive, τῶν Ἰουδαίων, ibid. 42. Cf. Bleek, Beiträge zur Evangelienkritik, p. 114ff; (on later usage cf. 'Teaching 8, 1 [ET] (and Harnack's note); Martyr. Polycarp, 7, 1 [ET] (and Zahn's note); Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word, 3). |
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