a willing, will, wishes
a willing, will, Stoic. 3.41, LXX To. 12.18, al., Phld. Rh. 2.297 S., Ep.Hebr. 2.4; condemned by Poll. 5.165: in Dor. pl. θελήσιες, wishes, Meliss. Ep.
II goodwill, favour
goodwill, favour, LXX Pr. 8.35.
The corpus record
θέλ-ησις
thelesis · ἡ
a willing, will
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Where it lives
- Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
- Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
- Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
- Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 1 · 1.9/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
- Daniel (LXX) 1 · 0.95/10k
- Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
- Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
- Paralipomenon II 1 · 0.51/10k
- Enneads 10 · 0.47/10k
- Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
- Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θελήσει · thelēsei Epictetus, Discourses 1.26 (DIORISIS sentence 1413)
- θελήσεις · thelēseis Epictetus, Enchiridion 19 (DIORISIS sentence 115)
- θέλησιν · thelēsin New Testament, Hebrews 2.2 (DIORISIS sentence 25)
- θελήσεις · thelēseis Plato, Epistles 339
- θέλησιν · thelēsin Plotinus, Enneads 6.8 (DIORISIS sentence 6290)
- θέλησις · thelēsis Plotinus, Enneads 6.8 (DIORISIS sentence 6286)
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.