Jhn 14:2
In my Father's house are many mansions: if
it were not
so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you.
hetoimazō
Pronunciation
he-toi-mä'-zō ἕτοιμος (G2092)
Dictionary Aids
Vine's Expository Dictionary: prepare (29x),make ready (10x), provide (1x).
Outline of Biblical Usage
- to make ready, prepare
- to make the necessary preparations, get everything ready
- metaph.
- drawn from the oriental custom of sending on before kings on their journeys persons to level the roads and make them passable
- to prepare the minds of men to give the Messiah a fit reception and secure his blessings
Strong’s Definitions G2092; to prepare:—prepare, provide, make ready. Compare G2680.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Transliteration
topos
Pronunciation
to'-pos
place (80x),
room (5x),
quarter (2x),
licence (1x),
coast (1x),
where (1x),
plain (with G3977) (1x),
rock (with G5138) (1x).
Outline of Biblical Usage
- place, any portion or space marked off, as it were from surrounding space
- an inhabited place, as a city, village, district
- a place (passage) in a book
- opportunity, power, occasion for acting
G5561 is a large but participle locality), i.e. location (as a position, home, tract, etc.); figuratively, condition, opportunity; specially, a scabbard:—coast, licence, place, × plain, quarter, + rock, room, where.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
we think of Jesus building us a house and it is just waiting for us to be raptured too it .
and that is not what he said. He is just making preparations for a place and the goods like king David did?
Yes in the house the Father is building is many mansions.
the New Jerusalem is Fathers house but that comes in the 8thday .
wow just loads of questions floating all around these subjects.
