hekousiem

Strong’sG1595

willing, voluntary, spontaneous

stem hekousi-once in the New Testament1 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.

ἐκούσιος, -ον

(< έκών), [in LXX chiefly for נְדָבָה, as Nu 15:3 (κατ’ ἑ.);]

usually of actions, voluntary: κατὰ ἑ., of free will (Lft., in l), Phm 14.†

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

Strong’s G1595 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhek-oo'-see-on

voluntariness

Fromneuter of a derivative from G1635;

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

ἑκούσι-ος, α, ον
Refs 5th c.BC+; also ος, ον Refs 5th c.BC+: (ἑκών):—of actions, voluntary, πόνοι Refs 5th c.BC+[same place]; φυγή E.[same place]; ἁμάρτημα Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀδικήματα Refsundertaken voluntarily, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τὰ ἑ. voluntary acts, opposed to τὰ ἀκούσια, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 rarely of persons, willing, acting of free will, ἥμαρτεν οὐχ ἑκουσία Refs 5th c.BC+
II adverb -ίωςRefs 5th c.BC+; ἐξ ἑκουσίας (i.e. γνώμης) Refs 5th c.BC+

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.

free will1×

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	hekousios	hekousias	hekousiem1×ἑκούσιον	hekousiois	hekousiais	hekousieim
object accusative	hekousion	hekousian		hekousioin	hekousiain
direct address vocative	hekousior	hekousiar		hekousioir	hekousiair
of, belonging to genitive	hekousiou	hekousiau	hekousieu	hekousioiu	hekousiaiu	hekousieiu
to, for dative	hekousio	hekousia	hekousie	hekousioi	hekousiai	hekousiei

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

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

hekousi 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

hekousiem“free will”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Philemon 1:14… tem agathem su ateiō alla kata hekousiem;… of compulsion, but by your own free will.