θέλημα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θέλω (thélō, “I resolve”) + -μᾰ (-ma).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰé.lɛː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰe.le̝.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθe.li.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθe.li.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθe.li.ma/
Noun
θέλημᾰ • (thélēma) n (genitive θελήμᾰτος); third declension
- will, desire
- errand
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ θέλημᾰ; τοῦ θελήμᾰτος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ θέλημᾰ tò thélēma | τὼ θελήμᾰτε tṑ thelḗmate | τᾰ̀ θελήμᾰτᾰ tà thelḗmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θελήμᾰτος toû thelḗmatos | τοῖν θελημᾰ́τοιν toîn thelēmátoin | τῶν θελημᾰ́των tôn thelēmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θελήμᾰτῐ tôi thelḗmati | τοῖν θελημᾰ́τοιν toîn thelēmátoin | τοῖς θελήμᾰσῐ / θελήμᾰσῐν toîs thelḗmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ θέλημᾰ tò thélēma | τὼ θελήμᾰτε tṑ thelḗmate | τᾰ̀ θελήμᾰτᾰ tà thelḗmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | θέλημᾰ thélēma | θελήμᾰτε thelḗmate | θελήμᾰτᾰ thelḗmata | ||||||||||
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References
- “θέλημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θέλημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θέλημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2307 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible