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θέλημα
thélēma

a determination (properly, the thing), i.e. (actively) choice (specially, purpose, decree; abstractly, volition) or (passively) inclination

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Definition

From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary

Strong’s Definition

a determination (properly, the thing), i.e. (actively) choice (specially, purpose, decree; abstractly, volition) or (passively) inclination

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

will, bent, inclination, 1 Cor. 16:12; Eph. 2:3; 1 Pet. 4:3; resolve, 1 Cor. 7:37; will, purpose, design, 2 Tim. 2:26; 2 Pet. 1:21; will, sovereign pleasure, behest, Mt. 18:14; Lk. 12:47; Acts 13:22, et al. freq.; ἐν τῷ θελήματι θεοῦ, Deo permittente, if God please or permit, Rom. 1:10

Source: Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

Translated in KJV as

desirepleasurewill

Etymology

from the prolonged form of G2309 (θέλω);

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