A genuinely uncertain phrase (16:21) for the man who leads the live goat into the wilderness. Itti shares its root with et, 'time, season' — suggesting 'a man for the occasion' or 'a man appointed in advance,' the reading behind rabbinic tradition's insistence that this man be designated ahead of the day itself. KJV and Douay-Rheims both read 'a fit man,' importing a physical qualification (able to make the round trip) the word itself does not obviously state; ASV's 'a man that is in readiness' stays closer to the time-root. This translation reads 'a man kept ready for it' — literal to the root, without committing to KJV's inference about fitness. → first discussed at Lev 16:21