Strong's Concordance 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). Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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 Exhaustive Concordance willingly. Neuter of a derivative from hekon; voluntariness -- willingly. see GREEK hekon Forms and Transliterations εκούσια εκουσίοις εκουσιον εκούσιον ἑκούσιον εκουσίου εκουσίω εκουσίων ekousion hekousion hekoúsionLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 15951 Occurrence ἑκούσιον — 1 Occ. Philemon 1:14 Adj-ANS GRK: ἀλλὰ κατὰ ἑκούσιον NAS: by compulsion but of your own free will. KJV: necessity, but willingly. INT: but effect willingly |