Definition

to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas G1014 (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

Etymology

apparently strengthened from the alternate form of G138 (αἱρέομαι);

Word family

• αἱρέομαι hairéomai

How the KJV renders it

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

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.