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And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
Read in context →And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Read in context →3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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paraskeuḗ · par-ask-yoo-ay'
readiness
Strong's KJV usage: :--preparation.
Strong's first: Matthew 27:62Strong's last: John 19:42
Open full G3904 profile →kûwn · koon
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
Strong's KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-) stablish, stand, tarry, × very deed.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 22:5Strong's last: Nahum 2:3
Open full H3559 profile →hetoimasía · het-oy-mas-ee'-ah
preparation
Strong's KJV usage: :--preparation.
Strong's first: Ephesians 6:15Strong's last: Ephesians 6:15
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And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
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PREPARA'TION, noun [Latin proeparatio. See Prepare.]
1. The act or operation of preparing or fitting for a particular purpose, use, service or condition; as the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign; the preparation of a nation for war; the preparation of men for future happiness. preparation is intended to prevent evil or secure good.
2. Previous measures of adaptation.
I will show what preparations there were in nature for this dissolution.
3. Ceremonious introduction. [Unusual.]
4. That which is prepared, made or compounded for a particular purpose.
I wish the chimists had been more sparing, who magnify their preparations.
5. The state of being prepared or in readiness; as a nation in good preparation for attack or defense.
6. Accomplishment; qualification. [Not in use.]
7. In pharmacy, any medicinal substance fitted for the use of the patient.
8. In anatomy, the parts of animal bodies prepared and preserved for anatomical uses.
Preparation of dissonances, in music, is their disposition in harmony in such a manner that by something congenial in what precedes, they may be rendered less harsh to the ear than they would be without such preparation
Preparation of medicines, the process of fitting any substance for use in the art of healing.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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