θέλω

English (LSJ)

   A v. ἐθέλω and add ὅστις ἂν θέλῃ IG12.49.12; ἐὰν δέ τις θέλῃ ib.6.106; ἐάν τις μὴ θέλῃ ib.40.27.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1193] s. ἐθέλω.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

θέλω: μέλλ. θελήσω, συντετμημένος τύπος τοῦ ἐθέλω, ὅπερ ἴδε ἐν τέλει.

French (Bailly abrégé)

v. ἐθέλω.

English (Slater)

θέλω (cf. ἐθέλω. θέλοντι; θέλοι; θέλων, -οντι, -οντες.)
   1 be ready to, wish c. inf. ἐσλὰ δ' ἐπ ἐσλοῖς ἔργα θέλοι δόμεν (sc. Ζεύς) (O. 8.85) θέλοντι δὲ αἰεὶ μένειν τεθμοῖσιν ἐν Αἰγιμιοῦ Δωριεῖς (P. 1.62) Ἀλεύα τε παῖδες, Ἱπποκλέᾳ θέλοντες ἀγαγεῖν ἐπικωμίαν ἀνδρῶν κλυτὰν ὄπα (P. 10.5) “εἰ μὲν αὐτὸς Οὔλυμπον θέλεις λτ;ναίειν> (N. 10.84) Ζεὺς ὅτ' ἀμφὶ Θέτιος ἀγλαός τ ἔρισαν Ποσειδὰν γάμῳ, ἄλοχον εὐειδέα θέλων ἑκάτερος ἑὰν ἔμμεν (I. 8.28) ἀλλ' αἶνον ἐπέβα κόρος τὸ λαλαγῆσαι θέλων κρυφόν τε θέμεν ἐσλῶν καλοῖς ἔργοις (codd., def. van Leeuwen: θέλον nom., coni. Coppola: θέλει Wil.) (O. 2.97) part. abs., ready, willing, τὸ Καστόρειον θέλων ἄθρησον (P. 2.69) “εἴ ποτ' ἐμᾶν, ὦ Ζεῦ πάτερ, θυμῷ θέλων ἀρᾶν ἄκουσας” (I. 6.43) ]θέλοντι δόμεν[ (Pae. 16.4)

English (Abbott-Smith)

θέλω (the strengthened form ἐθέλω is found in Hom., and is the more freq. in Attic; v. Rutherford, NPhr., 415f.), [in LXX for חפץ ,אבה; c. neg., מאן pi., etc.;]
to will, be willing, wish, desire (more freq. than βούλομαι, q.v., in vernac. and late Gk., also in MGr.; for various views as to its relation to β., v. Thayer, 286; but v. also BL, §24, s.v.): absol., Ro 9:16, I Co 4:19 12:18, Ja 4:15; τ. θεοῦ θέλοντος, Ac 18:21; c. acc. rei, Mt 20:21, Mk 14:36, Jo 15:7, Ro 7:15, 16 I Co 4:21 7:36, Ga 5:17; c. inf., Mt 5:40, Mk 10:43, Jo 6:21, 67 Ro 7:21, Ga 4:9; c. acc. et inf., Mk 7:24, Lk 1:62, Jo 21:22, 23 Ro 16:19, I Co 14:5, Ga 6:13; οὐ θέλω, Mt 18:30, al.; id. c. inf., Mt 2:18, Mk 6:26, Jo 5:40, I Co 16:7; seq. ἵνα, Mt 7:12, Mk 6:25, Jo 17:24; opp. to ποιέω, πράσσω, ἐνεργέω, Ro 7:15, 19 II Co 8:10, 11 Phl 2:13; seq. ἤ (ICG, in l.; Deiss., LAE, 179:24), I Co 14:19; θέλων ἐν ταπεινοφροσυνῄ (of his own mere will, by humility, R, mg), Col 2:18; in OT quotations, for Heb. חפץ, c. acc. pers., Mt 27:43; c. acc. rei, Mt 9:13 12:7, He 10:5, 8; c. inf., I Pe 3:10; for אמר, c. inf., Ac 7:28 (v. Cremer, 726ff.).

English (Strong)

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: desire, be disposed (forward), intend, list, love, mean, please, have rather, (be) will (have, -ling, - ling(-ly)).