Greek Strong's Lexicon
G2309
Lemma: θέλω
Transliteration: thel'-o
Definition: or ethelo, in certain tenses theleo, and etheleo, which are otherwise obsolete apparently strengthened from the alternate form of αἱρέομαι; to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas βούλομαι properly denotes rather a passive acquiescence in objective considerations), i.e. choose or prefer (literally or figuratively); by implication, to wish, i.e. be inclined to (sometimes adverbially, gladly); impersonally for the future tense, to be about to; by Hebraism, to delight in
KJV Definition: desire, be disposed (forward), intend, list, love, mean, please, have rather, (be) will (have, -ling, - ling(-ly))
Verse usage
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Huan 7:17
NASB
"If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or [whether] I speak from Myself.
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Huan 7:44
NASB
Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
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Huan 8:44
NASB
"You are of [your] father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own [nature], for he is a liar and the father of lies.
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Huan 9:27
NASB
He answered them, "I told you already and you did not listen; why do you want to hear [it] again? You do not want to become His disciples too, do you?"
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Huan 12:21
NASB
these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and [began to] ask him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."
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Huan 15:7
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"If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
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Huan 16:19
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Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, "Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, 'A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me'?
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Huan 17:24
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"Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
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Huan 21:18
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"Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to [go]."
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Echonan 2:12
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And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"
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Echonan 7:28
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'YOU DO NOT MEAN TO KILL ME AS YOU KILLED THE EGYPTIAN YESTERDAY, DO YOU?'
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Echonan 7:39
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"Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but repudiated him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
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Echonan 10:10
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But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;
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Echonan 14:13
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The priest of Zeus, whose [temple] was just outside the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.
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Echonan 16:3
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Paul wanted this man to go with him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
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Echonan 17:18
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And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,"-- because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.
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Echonan 17:20
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"For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."
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Echonan 18:21
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but taking leave of them and saying, "I will return to you again if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.
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Echonan 19:33
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Some of the crowd concluded [it was] Alexander, since the Jews had put him forward; and having motioned with his hand, Alexander was intending to make a defense to the assembly.
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Echonan 24:6
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"And he even tried to desecrate the temple; and then we arrested him. [We wanted to judge him according to our own Law.