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Strong's #4289 - πρόθυμος
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πρόθῡμος, ον,
ready, willing, eager, π. εἰμι, c. inf., = προθυμέομαι, Hdt. 2.3, 6.5, al., E. Med. 720, Antipho 5.18 ( Comp. ), etc.; π. ἔα πυθέσθαι I was eager to learn, Hdt. 2.19; εἶναι ὡς -οτάτοισι συνεξελεῖν Id. 1.36; -ότερος ἐγένου ἐμὲ λαβεῖν Pl. Smp. 220e: with Art. inserted, τὸ προσταλαιπωρεῖν . . οὐδεὶς π. ἦν Th. 2.53 .
2. c. gen. objecti, eager for, ὧν π. ἦσθ' ἀεί S. El. 3; χάριν . . ὧν πρόθυμοι γεγενήμεθα Th. 3.67 .
3. with Preps., ἐὰν γένῃ π. ἐς τὰ πράγματα Ar. Pl. 209; παρέσχεν ἑαυτὸν . . -ότατον ἐς τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν Th. 8.68, cf. 74; προθυμότεροι ἐς τὸ διώκειν X. Cyr. 1.4.22; ἐπί τι Id. HG 1.1.34; πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον ib. 1.5.2, cf. Pl. R. 468c, etc.
4. abs., Hdt. 9.91, E. Ba. 829, Hec. 307, etc.: τὸ πρόθυμον, = προθυμία, Id. Med. 178 (lyr.), Pl. Lg. 859b .
II bearing goodwill, wishing well, devoted, φύλαξ . . τῇ σῇ π. εἰς ὁδὸν κυναγία S. Aj. 37; π. εἶχ' ὀφθαλμὸν εἰς Ἰάσονα E. Med. 1146; π. τῇ πόλει X. HG 2.3.40; εἴς τινας ib. 6.5.42, Lys. 20.31 .
III Adv. -μως readily, zealously, actively, Hdt. 1.111, 5.13, etc.; π. υᾶλλον ἢ φίλως with more zeal than kindness, A. Ag. 1591; π. λέγειν Pl. Prt. 327b; ἐρωτᾶν D. 8.38; μανθάνειν Pl. La. 201b ( Sup. ); μάχεσθαι X. Ages. 2.8 ( Sup. ); π. ἔχειν πρός τι Pl. Smp. 176c: Comp. -ότερον Th. 6.80, X. An. 1.4.9, etc.: Sup. -ότατα Hdt. 2.59, Th. 8.68, etc.
πρόθυμος, πρόθυμον (πρό and θυμός), from (Sophocles and) Herodotus down, ready, willing: Matthew 26:41; Mark 14:38; neuter τό πρόθυμον, equivalent to ἡ προθυμία: Romans 1:15, as in Thucydides 3, 82; Plato, legg. 9, p. 859 b.; Euripides, Med. verse 178; Josephus, Antiquities 4, 8, 13; Herodian, 8, 3, 15 (6 edition, Bekker) (on which cf. Irmisch); 3Macc. 5:26.
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πρόθυμος , -ον ,
[in LXX: 1 Chronicles 28:21, 2 Chronicles 29:31 (H5081), Habakkuk 1:8 (H2363), al.;]
willing, ready: Matthew 26:41, Mark 14:38; neut., τὸ Papyri = ἡ προθυμία (Thuc., al., 3 Maccabees 5:26), οὕτως τὸ κατ᾿ ἐμὲ (= cl. τὸ ἐμὸν ) Papyri, Romans 1:15 (but v. ICC, in l).†
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