a.tid describes persons or circumstances as prepared or poised for an approaching action or event.

The attested use describes being prepared or poised in view of a coming event or action: peoples and Jews are positioned for a specified day, while other clauses portray battle, an attempted stirring of Leviathan, impending disaster, and stores in a context of action.

1. Prepared or poised for what follows · dominant

   In Esther 3:14 and Esther 8:13, masculine plural forms occur in the purpose of issuing an edict, with the APB rendering the peoples and the Jews as "ready for that day." Job 15:24 and Job 3:8 place the adjective with a king "ready for battle" and people "ready to rouse Leviathan"; Deuteronomy 32:35 places the feminine plural form in a clause where disaster is near and doom hastens. Isaiah 10:13 has a masculine plural construct form in the speaker's claim to have plundered the peoples' stores, though the translation does not isolate the term's contribution.

   Esther 3:14Esther 8:13Job 15:24Job 3:8Deuteronomy 32:35Isaiah 10:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses "ready" in Esther 3:14, Esther 8:13, Job 15:24, and Job 3:8. In Deuteronomy 32:35 it instead presents approaching disaster and hastening doom, while in Isaiah 10:13 the term is not clearly isolable in the translation.