hekōnos

Strong’sG1635

willing, willingly

stem hekōn-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἑκών, -οῦσα, -όν

[in LXX: Ex 21:13, Jb 36:19 *;]

willing, of one's own free will: Ro 8:20, I Co 9:17 (Cremer, 246).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1635 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhek-own'

voluntary

Fromof uncertain affinity;

King Jameswillingly.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἑκών, ἑκοῦσα, ἑκόν:
(ϝέκ- Refs; cf. Sanskrit váśmi 'wish'):—readily, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἑ. παρ᾽ ἑκόντος λαμβάνειν, i.e. by mutual consent, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 wittingly, purposely, ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἡμάρτανε φωτός Refs 8th c.BC+
3 in Attic dialect Prose Refs 2nd c.AD+ as far as depends on one's will, as far as concerns one, with a negative, Refs 5th c.BC+; also in oblique cases, ὑπὸ σοῦ ἑκόντος εἶναι Refs; or in a sentence implying a negative, θαυμάζοιμεν ἂν εἰ.. τις ἑκὼν εἶναι (perhaps delendum).. ἀφικνεῖτα; Refs 5th c.BC+
II rarely of things, κακὰ ἑ. κοὐκ ἄκοντα Refs 5th c.BC+
III for adverb see ἑκοντήν, ἑκοντί: regular adverb ἑκόντως is uncertain in Refs 2nd c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

voluntarily1×willingly1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	hekōnos1×ἑκὼν	hekōnas1×ἑκοῦσα	hekōnem	hekōnois	hekōnais	hekōneim
object accusative	hekōnon	hekōnan		hekōnoin	hekōnain
direct address vocative	hekōnor	hekōnar		hekōnoir	hekōnair
of, belonging to genitive	hekōnou	hekōnau	hekōneu	hekōnoiu	hekōnaiu	hekōneiu
to, for dative	hekōno	hekōna	hekōne	hekōnoi	hekōnai	hekōnei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

hekōnstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

hekōn is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

hekōnos“voluntarily”subjectnominative singular1×

1 Corinthians 9:17“voluntarily”ei gar hekōnos houtem prassamō, misthon echamō; ei de …If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is …

hekōnas“willingly”subjectnominative singular1×

Romans 8:20“willingly”… gar mataiota tas ktisias hupotassita, ouk hekōnas alla dia ton hupotassaranton, epi elpidaFor the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope