Help QuickNav Adv. Options
BBE

BBE

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's G2307 - thelēma

Aa
θέλημα
Transliteration
thelēma (Key)
Pronunciation
thel'-ay-mah
Listen
Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the prolonged form of θέλω (G2309)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:52,318

Strong’s Definitions

θέλημα thélēma, thel'-ay-mah; from the prolonged form of G2309; a determination (properly, the thing), i.e. (actively) choice (specially, purpose, decree; abstractly, volition) or (passively) inclination:—desire, pleasure, will.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x

The KJV translates Strong's G2307 in the following manner: will (62x), desire (1x), pleasure (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 64x
The KJV translates Strong's G2307 in the following manner: will (62x), desire (1x), pleasure (1x).

  1. what one wishes or has determined shall be done

    1. of the purpose of God to bless mankind through Christ

    2. of what God wishes to be done by us

      1. commands, precepts

  2. will, choice, inclination, desire, pleasure

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
θέλημα thélēma, thel'-ay-mah; from the prolonged form of G2309; a determination (properly, the thing), i.e. (actively) choice (specially, purpose, decree; abstractly, volition) or (passively) inclination:—desire, pleasure, will.
STRONGS G2307:
θέλημα, 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): Luke 12:47; John 5:30; 1 Corinthians 7:37; 1 Thessalonians 5:18; 2 Timothy 2:26; Hebrews 10:10; Revelation 4:11; θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ is used — of the purpose of God to bless mankind through Christ, Acts 22:14; Ephesians 1:9; Colossians 1:9; of what God wishes to be done by us, Romans 12:2; Colossians 4:12 (Winer's Grammar, 111 (105)); 1 Peter 4:2; and simply τό θέλημα, Romans 2:18 (Winer's Grammar, 594 (553)) (Sir. 43:16 (17) (but here the better text now adds αὐτοῦ, see Fritzsche; in patristic Greek, however, θέλημα is so used even without the article; cf. Ignatius ad Rom. 1, 1 [ET]; ad Eph. 20, 1 [ET], etc.)); τοῦ κυρίου, Ephesians 5:17; plural commands, precepts: (Mark 3:35 WH. marginal reading); Acts 13:22 (Psalm 102:7 (Ps. 103:7); 2 Macc. 1:3); ἐστι τό θέλημα τίνος, followed by ἵνα, John 6:39; 1 Corinthians 16:12, cf. Matthew 18:14; followed by an infinitive, 1 Peter 2:15; by an accusative with an infinitive 1 Thessalonians 4:3. (Cf. Buttmann, 237 (204); 240 (207); Winers Grammar, § 44, 8.)
b. equivalent to τό θέλειν (i. e. the abstract act of willing, the subjective) will, choice: 1 Peter 3:17 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 604 (562)); 2 Peter 1:21; ποιεῖν τό θέλημα τίνος (especially of God), Matthew 7:21; Matthew 12:50; Matthew 21:31; Mark 3:35 (here WH marginal reading the plural, see above); John 4:34; John 6:38; John 7:17; John 9:31; Ephesians 6:6; Hebrews 10:7, 9, 36; Hebrews 13:21; 1 John 2:17; τό θέλημα (L T Tr WH βούλημα) τίνος κατεργάζεσθαι, 1 Peter 4:3; γίνεται τό θέλημα τίνος, Matthew 6:10; Matthew 26:42; Luke 11:2 L R; Luke 22:42; Acts 21:14; ἡ βουλή τοῦ θελήματος, Ephesians 1:11; ἡ εὐδοκία τοῦ θελήματος Ephesians 1:5; ἐν τῷ θελημάτω τοῦ Θεοῦ, if God will, Romans 1:10; διά θελήματος Θεοῦ, Romans 15:32; 1 Corinthians 1:1; 2 Corinthians 1:1; 2 Corinthians 8:5; Ephesians 1:1; Colossians 1:1; 2 Timothy 1:1; κατά τό θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ, Galatians 1:4; (1 Peter 4:19); 1 John 5:14. equivalent to pleasure: Luke 23:25; equivalent to inclination, desire: σαρκός, ἀνδρός, John 1:13; plural Ephesians 2:3. (Synonym: see θέλω, at the end.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
102:7; 103:7
Matthew
6:10; 7:21; 12:50; 18:14; 21:31; 26:42
Mark
3:35; 3:35
Luke
11:2; 12:47; 22:42; 23:25
John
1:13; 4:34; 5:30; 6:38; 6:39; 7:17; 9:31
Acts
13:22; 21:14; 22:14
Romans
1; 1:1; 1:10; 2:18; 12:2; 15:32
1 Corinthians
1:1; 7:37; 16:12
2 Corinthians
1:1; 8:5
Galatians
1:4
Ephesians
1:1; 1:5; 1:9; 1:11; 2:3; 5:17; 6:6
Colossians
1:1; 1:9; 4:12
1 Thessalonians
4:3; 5:18
2 Timothy
1:1; 2:26
Hebrews
10:7; 10:9; 10:10; 10:36; 13:21
1 Peter
2:15; 3:17; 4:2; 4:3; 4:19
2 Peter
1:21
1 John
2:17; 5:14
Revelation
4:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2307 matches the Greek θέλημα (thelēma),
which occurs 62 times in 58 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Mat 6:10–Heb 13:21)

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:10 - Let your kingdom come. Let your pleasure be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:21 - Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:50

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:50 - For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 18:14 - Even so it is not the pleasure of your Father in heaven for one of these little ones to come to destruction.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:31 - Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:42 - Again, a second time he went away, and said in prayer, O my Father, if this may not go from me without my taking it, let your pleasure be done.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:35 - Whoever does God's pleasure, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:47 - And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:42 - Father, if it is your pleasure, take this cup from me: but still, let your pleasure, not mine, be done.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:25 - And in answer to their request, he let that man go free who had been in prison for acting against the government and causing death, and Jesus he gave up to their pleasure.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:13 - Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:34 - Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:30 - Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:38 - For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:39 - And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:40 - This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:17 - If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:31 - We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:22 - And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:14 - And as he might not be moved we did no more, saying, Let the purpose of God be done.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:14 - And he said, You have been marked out by the God of our fathers to have knowledge of his purpose, and to see the Upright One and to give ear to the words of his mouth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:10 - And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:18 - And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:2 - And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:32 - So that I may come to you in joy by the good pleasure of God, and have rest with you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:1 - Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:37 - But the man who is strong in mind and purpose, who is not forced but has control over his desires, does well if he comes to the decision to keep her a virgin.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:12 - But as for Apollos, the brother, I had a great desire for him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not his pleasure to come now; but he will come when he has a chance.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:1 - Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:5 - And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:4 - Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:1 - Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the purpose of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and those who have faith in Christ Jesus:

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:5 - As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:9 - Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:11 - In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:3 - Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:17 - For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:6 - Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:1 - Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the purpose of God, and Timothy our brother,

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:9 - For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 4:12 - Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:3 - For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:18 - In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 1:1 - Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, in the hope of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:26 - And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:7 - Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book).

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:9 - Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:10 - By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:36

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:36 - For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:21 - Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.

Search Results Continued…

1. Currently on page 1/2 (Mat 6:10–Heb 13:21) Mat 6:10–Heb 13:21

2. LOAD PAGE 2 1Pe 2:15–Rev 4:11

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
BBE
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
BBE
Daily Devotionals

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan