Senses
1. Preparation (day before Sabbath/feast) — The day of preparation before the Sabbath or a major Jewish festival, specifically the Friday before the Sabbath when all work and food preparation had to be completed. All six NT occurrences refer to the day Jesus was crucified — the Preparation day (Matt 27:62; Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:14, 31, 42). Multilingual evidence is uniform: Spanish 'Preparación/de preparación', Hindi 'तैयारी का दिन/तैयारी का', Arabic 'يَوْمَ الاِسْتِعْدَادِ/الاِسْتِعْدَادِ', Korean '예비일/준비일의', Swahili 'Maandalio/Ijumaa' (where Swahili notably uses 'Ijumaa' = Friday for the genitive, confirming the day-of-week referent). The nominative/accusative (S74048) and genitive (S74050) forms are case inflections of one sense — the Preparation day. 6×
AR["الاِسْتِعْدادِ","يَوْمَ-الاسْتِعْدَادِ","يَوْمَ-الْاِسْتِعْدَادِ","يَوْمِ-التَّهْيِئَةِ","يَوْمِ-الْاِسْتِعْدَادِ"]·ben["παρασκευῆς-প্রস্তুতি-দিন","প্রস্তুতি-দিন","প্রস্তুতি-দিনের","প্রস্তুতির"]·DE["Ruesttag","Παρασκευήν","Παρασκευῆς"]·EN["Preparation","of-Preparation","the-Preparation"]·FR["Préparation"]·heb["הֲכָנָה","עֶרֶב-פֶּסַח","עֶרֶב־שַׁבָּת","פַּרַסְקֵבִי"]·HI["तैयारी","तैयारी-का","तैयारी-का-दिन"]·ID["Hari-Persiapan","Persiapan"]·IT["Preparazione"]·jav["Cawis-Cawis","Cecawis","Paraskéwé,","Paskah-Cecawis","Samektan"]·KO["예비일","준비-날","준비날이었다","준비일의"]·PT["Preparação","preparação"]·RU["Приготовление","Пятница","Пятницы","приготовления"]·ES["Preparación","de-preparación"]·SW["Ijumaa","Maandalio"]·TR["Hazırlık","Hazırlık-Günü","Hazırlık-Günü'nün","Hazırlık-gününden"]·urd["تیاری","تیاری-کا","تیاری-کے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
παρασκευ-ή, ἡ, preparation, δείπνου Refs 5th c.BC+; παρασκευὴν σίτου παραγγείλας having ordered corn to be prepared, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν τούτῳ παρασκευῆς ἦσαν in this state of preparation, Refs 5th c.BC+; preparation, practice, as of a speaker preparing his speech, Refs 5th c.BC+; λέγειν ἀπὸ παρασκευῆς, opposed to αὐτοσχεδίως, Refs 2nd c.AD+; also, in a speech, preparatory section, Refs 4th c.BC+…