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Strong's #1014: boulomai (pronounced boo'-lom-ahee)

middle voice of a primary verb; to "will," i.e. (reflexively) be willing:--be disposed, minded, intend, list, (be, of own) will (-ing). Compare 2309.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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boulomai

1) to will deliberately, have a purpose, be minded

2) of willing as an affection, to desire

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: middle voice of a primary verb

Citing in TDNT: 1:629, 108




Usage:

This word is used 34 times:

Matthew 1:19: "not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily."
Matthew 11:27: "he to whomsoever the Son will reveal"
Mark 15:15: "And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released"
Luke 10:22: "he to whom the Son will reveal"
Luke 22:42: "Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from"
John 18:39: "at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the"
Acts 5:28: "Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's"
Acts 12:4: "of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth"
Acts 17:20: "to our ears: we would know therefore what these things"
Acts 18:15: "ye to it; for I will be no judge of such"
Acts 18:27: "And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren"
Acts 19:30: "And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the"
Acts 22:30: "On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore"
Acts 23:28: "And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused"
Acts 25:20: "such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to"
Acts 25:22: "said unto Festus, I would also hear the man"
Acts 27:43: "But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them"
Acts 28:18: "Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause"
1 Corinthians 12:11: "to every man severally as he will."
2 Corinthians 1:15: "And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before,"
Philippians 1:12: "But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto"
1 Timothy 2:8: " I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy"
1 Timothy 5:14: " I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none"
1 Timothy 6:9: "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare,"
Titus 3:8: "saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed"
Philemon 1:13: "Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead"
Hebrews 6:17: "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs"
James 1:18: " Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind"
James 3:4: "whithersoever the governor listeth."
James 4:4: "with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the"
2 Peter 3:9: "is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but"
2 John 1:12: "many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and"
3 John 1:10: "himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth"
Jude 1:5: "I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this,"









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