Lexicon hekousios: of free will, voluntary Original Word: ἑκούσιος, ία, ιονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: hekousios Phonetic Spelling: (hek-oo'-see-on) Short Definition: willing, voluntary, spontaneous Definition: willing, with right good will, voluntary, spontaneous. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 1595 hekoúsion (a substantival adjective, derived from 1635 /hekṓn, "willing, in consent") – properly, willing, i.e. of free-will; consent to act voluntarily (spontaneously). See 1635 (hekōn). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom hekónDefinitionof free will, voluntary NASB Translationfree will (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1595: ἑκούσιοςἑκούσιος, ἑκούσιον ( ἑκών), voluntary: κατά ἑκούσιον, of free will, Philemon 1:14. ( Numbers 15:3; καθ' ἑκουσιαν, Thucydides 8, 27 — ("The word understood in the one case appears to be τρόπον ( Porphyry, de abst. 1, 9 καθ' ἑκούσιον τρόπον, comp. Euripides, Med. 751 ἑκουσίῳ τρόπῳ); in the other, γνώμην so ἑκούσια (doubtful, see Liddell and Scott), ἐξ ἑκουσιας, etc.;" cf. Lobeck, Phryn., p. 4; Lightfoot on Philemon, the passage cited; cf. Winer's Grammar, 463 (432)).)
Strong's willingly. Neuter of a derivative from hekon; voluntariness -- willingly. see GREEK hekon |
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