# H6257 עָתַד

עָתַד (ʻâthad), Strong’s H6257: to prepare KJV: make fit, be ready to become.. Occurs 2 times.

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*ʻâthad* — to prepare

KJV: make fit, be ready to become.

Occurs 2 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [עָתֹד] vb. be ready
- Pi. and make it ready i.e. thy work
- Hithp. which [houses] were prepared (destined) for (i.e. to be) heaps of ruins.

## Where it occurs
- [Proverbs 24:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/24?v=27) — Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
- [Job 15:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/15?v=28) — He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.