Greek Strong's Lexicon

G2309

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

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

  • 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.
  • Huan 7:44 NASB
    Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.
  • 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.
  • 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?"
  • 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."
  • Huan 15:7 NASB
    "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
  • Huan 16:19 NASB
    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'?
  • Huan 17:24 NASB
    "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.
  • Huan 21:18 NASB
    "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]."
  • Echonan 2:12 NASB
    And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"
  • Echonan 7:28 NASB
    'YOU DO NOT MEAN TO KILL ME AS YOU KILLED THE EGYPTIAN YESTERDAY, DO YOU?'
  • Echonan 7:39 NASB
    "Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but repudiated him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
  • Echonan 10:10 NASB
    But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;
  • Echonan 14:13 NASB
    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.
  • Echonan 16:3 NASB
    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.
  • Echonan 17:18 NASB
    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.
  • Echonan 17:20 NASB
    "For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean."
  • Echonan 18:21 NASB
    but taking leave of them and saying, "I will return to you again if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.
  • Echonan 19:33 NASB
    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.
  • Echonan 24:6 NASB
    "And he even tried to desecrate the temple; and then we arrested him. [We wanted to judge him according to our own Law.