Lexical Summary hekousios: of free will, voluntary Original Word: ἑκούσιοςTransliteration: hekousios Phonetic Spelling: (hek-oo'-see-on) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: of free will, voluntary Meaning: of free will, voluntary Strong's Concordance willingly. Neuter of a derivative from hekon; voluntariness -- willingly. see GREEK hekon 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)).) |
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