θέλημα

English (LSJ)

ατος, τό, (θέλω)

   A will, Antipho Soph.58 (pl.), Aen.Tact. 18.19, LXX Es.1.8, al., Ev.Matt.7.21, POxy.924.8 (iv A.D.).    II ἔστιν μοι θ. ἔν τινι pleasure in... LXX Ec.12.1, cf. 5.3:—also θελ-ήμη, ἡ, Theognost.Can.112.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1192] τό, der Wille, N. T, z. B. Matth. 7, 10 u. K. S.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

θέλημα: τό, (θέλω) θέλησις, Ἀριστ. Φυτ. 1. 1, 7, Εὐαγγ. κ. Ματθ. ζ΄, 21, Ἐκκλ. ΙΙ. ἐστί μοι θ. ἔν τινι, εὐχαρίστησις ἔν τινι.., Ἑβδ. (Ἐκκλ. ε΄, 3, πρβλ. ιβ΄, 1).

French (Bailly abrégé)

ατος (τό) :
volonté, désir.
Étymologie: θέλω.

English (Strong)

from the prolonged form of θέλω; a determination (properly, the thing), i.e. (actively) choice (specially, purpose, decree; abstractly, volition) or (passively) inclination: desire, pleasure, will.

English (Thayer)

θελήματος, τό (θέλω), a word purely Biblical and ecclesiastical (yet found in Aristotle, de plant. 1,1, p. 815b, 21); the Sept. for חֵפֶץ and רָצון; will, i. e., a. what one wishes or has determined shall be done (i. e. objectively, thing willed): θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ is used — of the purpose of God to bless mankind through Christ, Winer's Grammar, 111 (105)); τό θέλημα, Winer's Grammar, 594 (553)) (αὐτοῦ, see Fritzsche; in patristic Greek, however, θέλημα is so used even without the article; cf. Ignatius ad Romans 1,1 [ET]; ad Ephesians 20,1 [ET], etc.)); τοῦ κυρίου, commands, precepts: (WH. marginal reading); ἐστι τό θέλημα τίνος, followed by ἵνα, Buttmann, 237 (204); 240 (207); Winer s Grammar, § 44,8.)
b. equivalent to τό θέλειν (i. e. the abstract act of willing, the subjective) will, choice: Winer's Grammar, 604 (562)); ποιεῖν τό θέλημα τίνος (especially of God), WH marginal reading the plural, see above); τό θέλημα (L T Tr WH βούλημα) τίνος κατεργάζεσθαι, γίνεται τό θέλημα τίνος, L R; ἡ βουλή τοῦ θελήματος, ἡ εὐδοκία τοῦ θελήματος ἐν τῷ θελημάτω τοῦ Θεοῦ, if God will, διά θελήματος Θεοῦ, κατά τό θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ, pleasure: inclination, desire: σαρκός, ἀνδρός, θέλω, at the end.)