προθυμία
prothymía · G4288 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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eagerness, desire
Eagerness to engage in some activity or event
ExamplesActs 17:11 Now these people were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
2 Corinthians 8:11 But now finish doing it also, so that just as there was the willingness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability.
2 Corinthians 8:12 For if the willingness is present, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
- θέλωto want, to wish, to desire 1
- σύyou 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- καυχάομαιto boast 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόκειμαιto exist openly 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἴδωto know 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- μετάwith, after 2
- πρόςto, toward, with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Eagerness, desire25.68
- The noun names eager willingness or readiness of mind. Luke's account of the Bereans uses this term: “Now these people were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11).
Word family 22 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon προθυμίας, ἡ (πρόθυμος), from Homer down; 1. zeal, spirit, eagerness; 2. inclination;…
1. zeal, spirit, eagerness;
2. inclination; readiness of mind: so Acts 17:11; 2 Cor 8:11f, 19; 2 Cor 9:2.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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