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

  • 1 Korintionan 7:36 NASB
    But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin [daughter], if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.
  • 1 Korintionan 7:39 NASB
    A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
  • 1 Korintionan 10:1 NASB
    For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;
  • 1 Korintionan 10:20 NASB
    [No], but [I say] that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.
  • 1 Korintionan 10:27 NASB
    If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience' sake.
  • 1 Korintionan 11:3 NASB
    But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
  • 1 Korintionan 12:1 NASB
    Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I do not want you to be unaware.
  • 1 Korintionan 12:18 NASB
    But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.
  • 1 Korintionan 14:5 NASB
    Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but [even] more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.
  • 1 Korintionan 14:19 NASB
    however, in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.
  • 1 Korintionan 14:35 NASB
    If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.
  • 1 Korintionan 15:38 NASB
    But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
  • 1 Korintionan 16:7 NASB
    For I do not wish to see you now [just] in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.
  • 2 Korintionan 1:8 NASB
    For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came [to us] in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;
  • 2 Korintionan 5:4 NASB
    For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.
  • 2 Korintionan 8:10 NASB
    I give [my] opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do [this], but also to desire [to do it].
  • 2 Korintionan 8:11 NASB
    But now finish doing it also, so that just as [there was] the readiness to desire it, so [there] [may be] also the completion of it by your ability.
  • 2 Korintionan 11:12 NASB
    But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting.
  • 2 Korintionan 12:6 NASB
    For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain [from] [this], so that no one will credit me with more than he sees [in] me or hears from me.
  • 2 Korintionan 12:20 NASB
    For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps [there will be] strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;