Strong's Greek · G4288

προθυμία

prothymía

forwardness of mind, readiness (of mind), ready (willing) mind

Definition

predisposition, i.e. alacrity

Derivation

from G4289 (πρόθυμος);

Appears 5 times in Scripture

2 Corinthians 8:11

Now finish the work, so that you may complete it with the same eager desire, according to your means.

2 Corinthians 8:19

More than that, this brother was chosen by the churches to accompany us with the gracious offering we administer to honor the Lord Himself and to show our eagerness to help.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

Acts 17:11

Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

2 Corinthians 9:2

For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting to the Macedonians that since last year you in Achaia were prepared to give. And your zeal has stirred most of them to do likewise.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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