ἘΘΕΛΗΣΟΝΤΑΣ, ἐθελησοντας
ETHELĒSONTAS, ethelēsontas
Sounds Like: eh-theh-lay-SON-tas
Translations: willing, wishing, desiring, intending, about to wish, about to desire
From the root: ἘΘΕΛΩ
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: This word is a future active participle derived from the verb 'to wish' or 'to be willing'. It describes someone who is about to wish, or who will be willing to do something. It functions like an adjective, modifying a noun or pronoun, and indicates an action that will happen in the future.
Inflection: Future, Active, Participle, Accusative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G2309 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 11 — 2:23
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΘΕΛΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΘΕΛΕΙΝ — to wish, to desire, to want, to be willing, to intend, to choose
- ἘΘΕΛΗΣΑΝΤΙ — (to) one who wished, (to) one who desired, (to) one who was willing
- ἘΘΕΛΗΣΟΥΣΙ — they will wish, they will want, they will desire, they will be willing
- ἘΘΕΛΟΙ — would wish, would desire, would be willing, might wish, might desire, might be willing
- ἘΘΕΛΟΙΕΝ — they would wish, they would want, they would be willing
- ἘΘΕΛΟΝΤΑ — willing, wishing, desiring, wanting, intending, choosing, a willing one, a volunteer
- ἘΘΕΛΟΝΤΑΣ — willing, wishing, desiring, wanting, choosing, intending
- ἘΘΕΛΟΝΤΙ — willingly, voluntarily, of one's own accord, (to) a volunteer
- ἘΘΕΛΟΝΤΟΣ — of one wishing, of one willing, of one desiring, of one intending
- ἘΘΕΛΟΝΤΩΝ — of those willing, of those desiring, of volunteers, of those wishing
- ἘΘΕΛΟΥΣΙΝ — they wish, they desire, they want, they are willing
- ἘΘΕΛΟΥΣΙΩΣ — voluntarily, willingly, of one's own accord, freely
- ἘΘΕΛΩ — to wish, to desire, to be willing, to want
- ἘΘΕΛΩΣΙΝ — they wish, they desire, they want, they are willing
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