Strong's #2307: thelema (pronounced thel'-ay-mah)
from the prolonged form of 2309; a determination (properly, the thing), i.e. (actively) choice (specially, purpose, decree; abstractly, volition) or (passively) inclination:-- desire, pleasure, will.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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thelēma
1) what one wishes or has determined shall be done
1a) of the purpose of God to bless mankind through Christ
1b) of what God wishes to be done by us
1b1) commands, precepts
2) will, choice, inclination, desire, pleasure
Part of Speech: noun neuter
Relation: from the prolonged form of G2309
Citing in TDNT: 3:52, 318
Usage:
This word is used 64 times:
Hebrews 10:7: "me,) to do thy will, O God."
Hebrews 10:9: "I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first,"
Hebrews 10:10: "By the which will we are sanctified through the offering"
Hebrews 10:36: "that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."
Hebrews 13:21: "good work to do his will, working in you"
1 Peter 2:15: "so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the"
1 Peter 3:17: "it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing,"
1 Peter 4:2: "to the lusts of men, but to the will of God."
1 Peter 4:3: "us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in"
1 Peter 4:19: "them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls"
2 Peter 1:21: "came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men"
1 John 2:17: "but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever."
1 John 5:14: "any thing according to his will, he heareth us:"
Revelation 4:11: "and for thy pleasure they are and were created."
