וְ/עַתְּדָ֣/הּ

𐤅/𐤏𐤕𐤃/𐤄

ʻâthad

and make it ready

To arrange, make ready, prepare; with extensions to furnish, equip, or make something suitable for a purpose. The verb often describes practical preparation or arranging of people, objects, or actions in advance of an event. In some contexts, it carries the sense of rendering something appropriate, suitable, or fit.

H6257

Proverbs 24:27 · Word #4

Lexicon H6257

Lemmaעָתַד
Lemma (Paleo)𐤏𐤕𐤃
Transliterationʻâthad
Strong'sH6257
DefinitionTo arrange, make ready, prepare; with extensions to furnish, equip, or make something suitable for a purpose. The verb often describes practical preparation or arranging of people, objects, or actions in advance of an event. In some contexts, it carries the sense of rendering something appropriate, suitable, or fit.

Morphology HC/Vpv2ms/Sp3fs All morphology codes

Part of Speech V — Verb — An action or state
Binyan p — Piel — Intensive active
Conjugation v — Imperative — A command
Person 2 — 2nd person — Second person ("you")
Gender m — Masculine — Masculine
Number s — Singular — Singular

Common Translation

Phraseand make it ready

SIBI-P1 Translation H6257-02

and prepare her

Morphological NotesPiel imperative, 2ms, with prefixed conjunction וְ and 3fs pronominal suffix.
Rendering RationaleThe Piel stem conveys an intensive or factitive sense of making something ready or properly equipped. As a 2nd person masculine singular imperative with a 3rd feminine singular suffix, it commands a male addressee to prepare or make ready 'her.'

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