KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To desire, choose, or determine. Sense 2: As an auxiliary, to express intention, promise, determination, expectation, or what is to occur. Sense 3: The power or act of choosing or determining; a desire, choice, intention, purpose, direction, pleasure, or power of disposal. Sense 4: In good will, favour, kindness, or benevolent purpose.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 2:18
Complete exact-word concordance
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
Making request, (if by any meanes now at length I might haue a prosperous iourney by the will of God) to come vnto you.
Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
Who will render to euery man according to his deedes:
1611 marginal notePsal. 62.12. matth. 16.27. reuel. 22.12.
And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
And knowest his will, and approuest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the Law,
1611 marginal noteOr, triest the things that differ.
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Blessed is the man to whome the Lord will not impute sinne.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peraduenture for a good man, some would euen dare to dye.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
For I know, that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing. For to will is present with me: but how to performe that which is good, I find not.
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
And he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the minde of the spirit, because he maketh intercession for the Saints, according to the will of God.
1611 marginal noteOr, that
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne.
1611 marginal noteGen. 18.10.
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
For hee saith to Moses, I will haue mercy on whom I wil haue mercie, and I will haue compassion on whom I will haue compassion.
1611 marginal noteExod. 33.19.
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Therefore hath hee mercie on whom hee will haue mercy, and whom he will, he hardeneth.
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Historical English dictionary sources
To desire, wish.
Choice; determination. ... Choice; discretion; pleasure. ... Command; direction. ... Disposition; inclination; desire. ... Power; arbitrary disposal. ... Good will, favor; kindness. ... Right intention.
To determine; to decide in the mind that something shall be done or forborne. ... To command; to direct. ... To be inclined or resolved to have. ... To wish; to desire. ... It is sometimes equivalent to may be. ... Will is used as an auxiliary verb, and a sign of the future tense.
