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Dictionaries :: Purpose (Noun and Verb)

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
A-1 Noun Strong's Number: g1013 Greek: boulema

Purpose (Noun and Verb):

"a purpose or will" (akin to boulomai, "to will, wish, purpose"), "a deliberate intention," occurs in Act 27:43, "purpose;" Rom 9:19, "will;" 1Pe 4:3, in the best mss. (some have thelema), AV, "will," RV, "desire."
See WILL.

A-2 Noun Strong's Number: g4286 Greek: prothesis

Purpose (Noun and Verb):

"a setting forth" (used of the "shewbread"), "a purpose" (akin to B, No. 3), is used

(a) of the "purposes of God," Rom 8:28; 9:11; Eph 1:11; 3:11; 2Ti 1:9;

(b) of "human purposes," as to things material, Act 27:13; spiritual, Act 11:23; 2Ti 3:10.
See SHEWBREAD.

A-3 Noun Strong's Number: g1106 Greek: gnome

Purpose (Noun and Verb):

"an opinion, purpose, judgement," is used in the genitive case with ginomai, "to come to be," in Act 20:3, "he purposed," AV (RV, "he determined"), lit., "he came to be of purpose."

Notes: The following phrases are translated with the word "purpose:"

(a) eis auto touto, "for this same (or very) "purpose," lit., "unto this same (thing)," Rom 9:17; Eph 6:22; Col 4:8;

(b) eis touto, "for this purpose," Act 26:16, AV (RV, "to this end"), lit., "unto this;" so 1Jo 3:8;

(c) eis ti, "to what purpose," Mat 26:8, lit., "unto what;" Mar 14:4; RV, "to what purpose" (AV, "why").

B-1 Verb Strong's Number: g1011 Greek: bouleuo

Purpose (Noun and Verb):

"to take counsel, resolve," always in the Middle Voice in the NT, "to take counsel with oneself," to determine with oneself, is translated "I purpose" in 2Cr 1:17 (twice).
See COUNSEL, B, No. 1.

B-2 Verb Strong's Number: g5087 Greek: tithemi

Purpose (Noun and Verb):

"to put, place," is used in the Middle Voice in Act 19:21, "purposed," in the sense of resolving.

B-3 Verb Strong's Number: g4388 Greek: protithemi

Purpose (Noun and Verb):

"to set before, set forth" (pro, "before," and No. 2, akin to A, No. 2), is used in Rom 3:25, "set forth," RV marg., "purposed," AV marg., "foreordained," Middle Voice, which lays stress upon the personal interest which God had in so doing; either meaning, "to set forth" or "to purpose," would convey a scriptural view, but the context bears out the former as being intended here; in Rom 1:13, "I purposed;" Eph 1:9, "He purposed (in Him)," RV.
See SET.

B-4 Verb Strong's Number: g4160 Greek: poieo

Purpose (Noun and Verb):

"to make," is translated "He purposed" in Eph 3:11 (for the noun prothesis, in the same verse, see A, No. 2).
See DO, No. 1.

B-5 Verb Strong's Number: g4255 Greek: proaireo

Purpose (Noun and Verb):

"to bring forth or forward," or, in the Middle Voice, "to take by choice, prefer, purpose," is translated "He hath purposed" in 2Cr 9:7, RV (AV, "he purposed").

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