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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θέλω (thélō, “I resolve”) + -μᾰ (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰé.lɛː.ma/ → /ˈθe.li.ma/ → /ˈθe.li.ma/
Noun
θέλημᾰ • (thélēma) n (genitive θελήμᾰτος); third declension
- will, desire
- errand
Inflection
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