βούλομαι boulomai

Greek word for “to plan” · Strong’s G1014 · used 37 times in 37 verses

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Meaning

βούλομαι; to will, wish, desire, purpose, be minded, implying more strongly than θέλω (which see), the deliberate exercise of volition (see Hort on): with inf.

How it is translated

Glosses given for boulomai in context, with how often each is used:

• desiring 6
• want 4
• purposed 2
• shall choose 2
• willing 2
• intending 2
• planning 2
• resolve 2
• wanting 2
• shall resolve 1
• wish 1
• intend 1

Where it is used

Also in 5 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Acts 5 (2), Acts 18 (2), Acts 25 (2), 2 Corinthians 1 (2), Matthew 1 (1), Matthew 11 (1), Mark 15 (1), Luke 10 (1), Luke 22 (1), John 18 (1)

Forms

• βουλόμενος 6
• βούλομαι 3
• ἐβουλόμην 3
• βούληται 2
• βούλεσθε 2
• ἐβούλοντο 2
• βουλομένου 2
• βουλόμενός 2
• βούλεται 2
• Βούλομαι 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with boulomai more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἀπολύω apoluō “to release” 4
• παραδίδωμι paradidōmi “to deliver” 4
• εἶναι einai “to exist” 4
• ὑπό hupo “by/under” 4
• γινώσκω ginōskō “to know” 4
• εἰ ei “if” 5
• ὑπομιμνήσκω hupomimnēskō “to remind” 2
• κατάγω katagō “to bring down” 2
• ἐάν ean “if” 4
• λόγος logos “word” 4
• αἰτία aitia “cause/charge” 2
• Παῦλος Paulos “Paul” 3

Key verses

The verses using boulomai that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 11:27 — All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to…
• Luke 10:22 — All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will…
• Acts 5:28 — Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring…
• Acts 5:33 — When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
• 1 Timothy 2:8 — I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
• 1 Timothy 5:14 — I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
• 1 Timothy 6:9 — But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• Titus 3:8 — This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.…
• Hebrews 6:17 — Where in God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
• James 1:18 — Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• James 4:4 — Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy…
• 2 Peter 3:9 — The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.