Strong G1014βούλομαι
to plan
- Transliteration
- boulomai
- Pronunciation
- boo'-lom-ahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Middle voice of a primary verb; to will that is (reflexively) be willing : - be disposed minded intend list (be of own) will (-ing). Compare G2309 .
Detailed definition
βούλομαι,
[in LXX for חפץ, אבה, יעץ, etc.;]
to will, wish, desire, purpose, be minded, implying more strongly than θέλω (which see), the deliberate exercise of volition (see Hort on Jas.1:18): with inf. (M, Pr., 205; Bl., §69, 4), Mrk.15:15, Act.5:28, 33 12:4 15:37 17:20 18:15, 27 19:30 22:30 23:28 27:43 28:18, 2Co.1:15, 1Ti.6:9, Heb.6:17, II Jhn.12, 3Jo.10, Ju 5; with accusative, 2Co.1:17; with accusative and inf., Php.1:12, 1Ti.2:8 5:14, Tit.3:8, 2Pe.3:9; of the will making choice between alternatives, Mat.1:19 11:27, Luk.10:22, Act.25:20, 1Co.12:11, Jas.3:4 4:4; εἰ βούλει (cl., a courteous phrase = θέλεις, colloq.; Bl., §21, 8; LS, see word), Luk.22:42; with subjc., adding force to a question of deliberation (Bl., §64, 6), Jhn.18:39; βουληθείς, of set purpose (see Hort, in l.), Jas.1:18; impf., ἐβουλόμην (= cl. βουλοίμην ἄν; Bl., §63, 5; Lft., Phm. 13), Act.25:22, Phm 13 (see also Cremer, 143).†
(AS)
[in LXX for חפץ, אבה, יעץ, etc.;]
to will, wish, desire, purpose, be minded, implying more strongly than θέλω (which see), the deliberate exercise of volition (see Hort on Jas.1:18): with inf. (M, Pr., 205; Bl., §69, 4), Mrk.15:15, Act.5:28, 33 12:4 15:37 17:20 18:15, 27 19:30 22:30 23:28 27:43 28:18, 2Co.1:15, 1Ti.6:9, Heb.6:17, II Jhn.12, 3Jo.10, Ju 5; with accusative, 2Co.1:17; with accusative and inf., Php.1:12, 1Ti.2:8 5:14, Tit.3:8, 2Pe.3:9; of the will making choice between alternatives, Mat.1:19 11:27, Luk.10:22, Act.25:20, 1Co.12:11, Jas.3:4 4:4; εἰ βούλει (cl., a courteous phrase = θέλεις, colloq.; Bl., §21, 8; LS, see word), Luk.22:42; with subjc., adding force to a question of deliberation (Bl., §64, 6), Jhn.18:39; βουληθείς, of set purpose (see Hort, in l.), Jas.1:18; impf., ἐβουλόμην (= cl. βουλοίμην ἄν; Bl., §63, 5; Lft., Phm. 13), Act.25:22, Phm 13 (see also Cremer, 143).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1014 appears in 34 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- will21
- willing4
- intend2
- mind2
- dispose1
- have1
- listeth1
- thou1
- ye1
First verses
- Matthew 1:19Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
- Matthew 11:27All 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 whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
- Mark 15:15And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
- Luke 10:22All 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 reveal him.
- Luke 22:42Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
- John 18:39But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
- Acts 5:28Saying, 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 this man’s blood upon us.
- Acts 12:4And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
- Acts 17:20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
- Acts 18:15But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
- Acts 18:27And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
- Acts 19:30And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
- Acts 22:30On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
- Acts 23:28And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
- Acts 25:20And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
- Acts 25:22Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
- Acts 27:43But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
- Acts 28:18Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
- 1 Corinthians 12:11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
- 2 Corinthians 1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
βούλομαι
(Epic dialect also βόλομαι, which see), Doric dialect βώλ- (which see), Aeolic dialect βόλλ- (see. βόλομαι), Thess. βέλλ- [Refs (“IG” 9(2).517.20)], Boeotian dialect βείλ- [Refs ([prev. work]7.3080,)]βήλ- [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 1185.18 (Tanagra, 3rd c.BC))], Locrian dialectand Delph. δείλ- [Refs (“IG” 9(1).334.3, “GDI” 2034.10)], Coan, etc. δήλ- (which see), Ionic dialect 2nd pers. singular βούλεαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.364, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.11)]: imperfect ἐβουλόμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.79, etc.; ἠβουλόμην 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 752, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.15, etc.)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἐβουλέατο codices in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.4, 3.143)]: future βουλήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 867, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1077, etc.)]; later future βουληθήσομαι variant in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 48(24).8, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus)] 13.636: aorist ἐβουλήθην, also ἠβ- (see. below), βουληθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 732, “IG” 22.1236, etc)]., but Epic dialect aorist subjunctive 3rd.pers. singular βούλεται (from *βόλσ-ε-ται) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.67)]: perfect βεβούλημαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.2)]; also βέβουλα (προ-) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.113 (ἐβέβουλε)] uncertain in epigram in [Refs (“Berl.Sitzb.” 1894.907):)] — forms with augment ἠ- are found in Attic dialect Inscrr. from [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC onwards, as “IG” 22.657, +others, and occur frequently in Mss. as ἠβούλοντο variant in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.2, 6.79, ἠβούλου 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “pro Lycophrone” 11)]; said to be Ionic in [Refs (“Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 2.374.)] — An active βούλητε (={βούλησθε}) Mitteis [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“Chr.” 361.10 (4th c.AD))]:—will, wish, be willing, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.: usually implying choice or preference (cf. IV) opposed to ἐθέλω)] 'consent', εἰ βούλει, ἐγὼ ἐθέλω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 522e, compare “R.” 347b, 437b; ἐὰν βούλῃ σὺ.. ἐὰν θεὸς ἐθέλῃ [prev. author] Alcaeus1.135d; ἂν οἵ τε θεοὶ 'θέλωσι καὶ ὑμεῖς βούλησθε 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.20; οὔτ᾽ ἀκούειν ἠθέλετ᾽ οὔτε πιστεύειν ἐβούλεσθε [prev. author] 19.23)]; but ἐθέλω is also used = 'wish', λέξαι θέλω σοι, πρὶν θανεῖν, ἃ βούλομαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 281 (so ἐθέλω εἰπεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 309b, but φράσαι τι βούλομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1090): 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses βούλομαι for ἐθέλω)] in the case of the gods, for with them wish is will: ἐθέλω is more general, and is sometimes used where βούλομαι might have stood, e.g. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.182.)]—Construct.: mostly with infinitive, Τρώεσσιν ἐβούλετο κῦδος ὀρέξαι [Refs (11.79, etc.)]; sometimes with infinitive future, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 184)]; with accusative et infinitive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.353, and frequently in Prose: when βούλομαι is followed by _accusative_ only, an)]infinitive may generally be supplied, as καί κε τὸ βουλοίμην (i.e. γενέσθαι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.316)]; ἔτυχεν ὧν ἐβούλετο (i.e. τυχεῖν) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 18.6)]; πλακοῦντα β. (i.e. σε λέγειν) [Refs ([prev. author] 52.11)]; καὶ εἰ μάλα βούλεται ἄλλῃ [Ποσειδάων] (i.e. τοῦτο γενέσθαι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.51)]; so εἰς τὸ βαλανεῖον βούλομαι (i.e. ἰέναι) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1279)]; βουλοίμην ἄν (i.e. τόδε γενέσθαι) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 3a.)]
2 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus of gods, with _accusative_ _of things_ et _dative_ _person_, Τρώεσσιν.. ἐβούλετο νίκην)] he willed victory to the Trojans, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.21, compare 23.682: later with _accusative_, τὸ βουλόμενον τὴν πολιτείαν πλῆθος)] that supports the constitution, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1309b17.)]
II Attic dialect usages:
II.1 βούλει or βούλεσθε followed by Verb in subjunctive, βούλει λάβωμα; would you have me take hold? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 761)]; βούλει φράσ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 36, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 79a, “R.” 596a)]; ποῦ δὴ βούλει ἀναγνῶμε; [Refs ([prev. author] “Phdr.” 228e.)]
II.2 εἰ βούλει if you please, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1168, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.41)]; also εἰ δὲ βούλει, ἐὰν δὲ βούλῃ, to express a concession, or if you like, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 201a, etc.; εἰ μὲν β., φρονήσει, εἰ δὲ β., ἰσχύι [prev. author] “R.” 432a.)]
II.3 ὁ βουλόμενος any one who likes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.54, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.26, etc.; ἔδωκεν ἅπαντι τῷ βουλομένῳ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.45)]; ὁ β. the 'common in former', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 918 (whence, in jest, βούλομαι [prev. work] 908))]; ὅστις βούλει who or which ever you like, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 517b, “Cra.” 432a.)]
II.4 βουλομένῳ μοί ἐστι, with infinitive, it is according to my wish that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.3; εἰ σοὶ β. ἐστὶν ἀποκρίνεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 448d; also τὰ θεῶν οὕτω βουλόμεν᾽ ἔσται 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 33)]; τὸ κεἰνου βουλόμενον his wish, [Refs ([prev. work] 1270)]; but with passive sense, τὸ β. the object of desire, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 37, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Artoxerxes” 28.)]
II.5 τί βουλόμενο; with what purpose? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 63a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.172; τί βουληθεὶς πάρε; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1100.)]
III mean, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 362e, 590e, etc.)]; τί ἡμῖν βούλεται οὗτος ὁ μῦθος; (followed by β. λέγειν ὡς..) [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Tht.” 156c; τί β. σημαίνειν τὸ τέρας 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.59)]; βούλεται εἶναι professes or pretends to be, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 595c; β. τὸ ὄνομα ἐπικεῖσθαι [prev. author] “Cra.” 412c; frequently in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus, τὸ ἀκούσιον βούλεται λέγεσθαι οὐκ εἰ.. “EN” 1110b30; β. ἄσωτος εἶναι ὁ ἕν τι κακὸν ἔχων [prev. work] 1119b34; β. ὁ πρᾶος ἀτάραχος εἶναι [prev. work] 1125b33)]; tend to be, ἡ τοῦ ὕδατος φύσις β. εἶναι ἄχυμος [Refs ([prev. author] “Sens.” 441a3)]; β. ἤδη τότε εἶναι πόλις ὅταν.. [Refs ([prev. author] “Pol.” 1261b12, compare 1293b40)]; ἡ φύσις β. μὲν τοῦτο ποιεῖν πολλάκις, οὐ μέντοι δύναται[Refs ([prev. work] 1255b3, compare “GA” 778a4, +others)]
III.2 to be wont, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.18.)]
IV followed by ἤ.., prefer, for βούλομαι μᾶλλον (which is more usually in Prose), βούλομ᾽ ἐγὼ λαὸν σόον ἔμμεναι ἢ ἀπολέσθαι I had rather.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.117, compare 23.594, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.232, 11.489, 12.350; β. τὸ μέν τι εὐτυχέειν.. ἢ εὐτυχέειν τὰ πάντα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.40)]; β. παρθενεύεσθαι πλέω χρόνον ἢ πατρὸς ἐστερῆσθαι (for πολὺν χρόνον, μᾶλλον ἤ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (..) [prev. work] 124, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 351)]; less frequently without ἤ.., πολὺ βούλομαι αὐτὴν οἴκοι ἔχειν I much prefer.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.112, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.88)]. (g[uglide]el-g[uglide]ol-, compare the dialectic forms.)
(Epic dialect also βόλομαι, which see), Doric dialect βώλ- (which see), Aeolic dialect βόλλ- (see. βόλομαι), Thess. βέλλ- [Refs (“IG” 9(2).517.20)], Boeotian dialect βείλ- [Refs ([prev. work]7.3080,)]βήλ- [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 1185.18 (Tanagra, 3rd c.BC))], Locrian dialectand Delph. δείλ- [Refs (“IG” 9(1).334.3, “GDI” 2034.10)], Coan, etc. δήλ- (which see), Ionic dialect 2nd pers. singular βούλεαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.364, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.11)]: imperfect ἐβουλόμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.79, etc.; ἠβουλόμην 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 752, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.15, etc.)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἐβουλέατο codices in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.4, 3.143)]: future βουλήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 867, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1077, etc.)]; later future βουληθήσομαι variant in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 48(24).8, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus)] 13.636: aorist ἐβουλήθην, also ἠβ- (see. below), βουληθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 732, “IG” 22.1236, etc)]., but Epic dialect aorist subjunctive 3rd.pers. singular βούλεται (from *βόλσ-ε-ται) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.67)]: perfect βεβούλημαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.2)]; also βέβουλα (προ-) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.113 (ἐβέβουλε)] uncertain in epigram in [Refs (“Berl.Sitzb.” 1894.907):)] — forms with augment ἠ- are found in Attic dialect Inscrr. from [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC onwards, as “IG” 22.657, +others, and occur frequently in Mss. as ἠβούλοντο variant in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.2, 6.79, ἠβούλου 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “pro Lycophrone” 11)]; said to be Ionic in [Refs (“Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 2.374.)] — An active βούλητε (={βούλησθε}) Mitteis [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“Chr.” 361.10 (4th c.AD))]:—will, wish, be willing, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.: usually implying choice or preference (cf. IV) opposed to ἐθέλω)] 'consent', εἰ βούλει, ἐγὼ ἐθέλω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 522e, compare “R.” 347b, 437b; ἐὰν βούλῃ σὺ.. ἐὰν θεὸς ἐθέλῃ [prev. author] Alcaeus1.135d; ἂν οἵ τε θεοὶ 'θέλωσι καὶ ὑμεῖς βούλησθε 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.20; οὔτ᾽ ἀκούειν ἠθέλετ᾽ οὔτε πιστεύειν ἐβούλεσθε [prev. author] 19.23)]; but ἐθέλω is also used = 'wish', λέξαι θέλω σοι, πρὶν θανεῖν, ἃ βούλομαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 281 (so ἐθέλω εἰπεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 309b, but φράσαι τι βούλομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1090): 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses βούλομαι for ἐθέλω)] in the case of the gods, for with them wish is will: ἐθέλω is more general, and is sometimes used where βούλομαι might have stood, e.g. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.182.)]—Construct.: mostly with infinitive, Τρώεσσιν ἐβούλετο κῦδος ὀρέξαι [Refs (11.79, etc.)]; sometimes with infinitive future, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 184)]; with accusative et infinitive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.353, and frequently in Prose: when βούλομαι is followed by _accusative_ only, an)]infinitive may generally be supplied, as καί κε τὸ βουλοίμην (i.e. γενέσθαι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.316)]; ἔτυχεν ὧν ἐβούλετο (i.e. τυχεῖν) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 18.6)]; πλακοῦντα β. (i.e. σε λέγειν) [Refs ([prev. author] 52.11)]; καὶ εἰ μάλα βούλεται ἄλλῃ [Ποσειδάων] (i.e. τοῦτο γενέσθαι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.51)]; so εἰς τὸ βαλανεῖον βούλομαι (i.e. ἰέναι) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1279)]; βουλοίμην ἄν (i.e. τόδε γενέσθαι) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 3a.)]
2 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus of gods, with _accusative_ _of things_ et _dative_ _person_, Τρώεσσιν.. ἐβούλετο νίκην)] he willed victory to the Trojans, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.21, compare 23.682: later with _accusative_, τὸ βουλόμενον τὴν πολιτείαν πλῆθος)] that supports the constitution, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1309b17.)]
II Attic dialect usages:
II.1 βούλει or βούλεσθε followed by Verb in subjunctive, βούλει λάβωμα; would you have me take hold? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 761)]; βούλει φράσ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 36, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 79a, “R.” 596a)]; ποῦ δὴ βούλει ἀναγνῶμε; [Refs ([prev. author] “Phdr.” 228e.)]
II.2 εἰ βούλει if you please, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1168, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.41)]; also εἰ δὲ βούλει, ἐὰν δὲ βούλῃ, to express a concession, or if you like, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 201a, etc.; εἰ μὲν β., φρονήσει, εἰ δὲ β., ἰσχύι [prev. author] “R.” 432a.)]
II.3 ὁ βουλόμενος any one who likes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.54, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.26, etc.; ἔδωκεν ἅπαντι τῷ βουλομένῳ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.45)]; ὁ β. the 'common in former', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 918 (whence, in jest, βούλομαι [prev. work] 908))]; ὅστις βούλει who or which ever you like, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 517b, “Cra.” 432a.)]
II.4 βουλομένῳ μοί ἐστι, with infinitive, it is according to my wish that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.3; εἰ σοὶ β. ἐστὶν ἀποκρίνεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 448d; also τὰ θεῶν οὕτω βουλόμεν᾽ ἔσται 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 33)]; τὸ κεἰνου βουλόμενον his wish, [Refs ([prev. work] 1270)]; but with passive sense, τὸ β. the object of desire, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 37, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Artoxerxes” 28.)]
II.5 τί βουλόμενο; with what purpose? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 63a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.172; τί βουληθεὶς πάρε; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1100.)]
III mean, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 362e, 590e, etc.)]; τί ἡμῖν βούλεται οὗτος ὁ μῦθος; (followed by β. λέγειν ὡς..) [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Tht.” 156c; τί β. σημαίνειν τὸ τέρας 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.59)]; βούλεται εἶναι professes or pretends to be, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 595c; β. τὸ ὄνομα ἐπικεῖσθαι [prev. author] “Cra.” 412c; frequently in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus, τὸ ἀκούσιον βούλεται λέγεσθαι οὐκ εἰ.. “EN” 1110b30; β. ἄσωτος εἶναι ὁ ἕν τι κακὸν ἔχων [prev. work] 1119b34; β. ὁ πρᾶος ἀτάραχος εἶναι [prev. work] 1125b33)]; tend to be, ἡ τοῦ ὕδατος φύσις β. εἶναι ἄχυμος [Refs ([prev. author] “Sens.” 441a3)]; β. ἤδη τότε εἶναι πόλις ὅταν.. [Refs ([prev. author] “Pol.” 1261b12, compare 1293b40)]; ἡ φύσις β. μὲν τοῦτο ποιεῖν πολλάκις, οὐ μέντοι δύναται[Refs ([prev. work] 1255b3, compare “GA” 778a4, +others)]
III.2 to be wont, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.18.)]
IV followed by ἤ.., prefer, for βούλομαι μᾶλλον (which is more usually in Prose), βούλομ᾽ ἐγὼ λαὸν σόον ἔμμεναι ἢ ἀπολέσθαι I had rather.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.117, compare 23.594, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.232, 11.489, 12.350; β. τὸ μέν τι εὐτυχέειν.. ἢ εὐτυχέειν τὰ πάντα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.40)]; β. παρθενεύεσθαι πλέω χρόνον ἢ πατρὸς ἐστερῆσθαι (for πολὺν χρόνον, μᾶλλον ἤ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (..) [prev. work] 124, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 351)]; less frequently without ἤ.., πολὺ βούλομαι αὐτὴν οἴκοι ἔχειν I much prefer.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.112, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.88)]. (g[uglide]el-g[uglide]ol-, compare the dialectic forms.)