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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First occurrence: Genesis 2:18
Complete exact-word concordance
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Salt is good: but if the salt haue lost his saltnesse, wherewith will you season it? Haue salt in your selues, and haue peace one with another.
1611 marginal noteMat. 5.13.
But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
But so shall it not be among you: but whosoeuer will bee great among you, shall be your minister:
And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
And whosoeuer of you will bee the chiefest, shalbe seruant of all.
And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.
And if any man say vnto you, Why doe yee this? Say yee, that the Lord hath need of him: and straightway he will send him hither.
But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
But if you doe not forgiue, neither will your Father which is in heauen, forgiue your trespasses.
And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, I will also aske of you one question, and answere me, and I will tell you by what authoritie I doe these things.
1611 marginal noteOr, thing.
And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
And they reasoned with themselues, saying, If we shall say, From heauen, he will say, Why then did ye not beleeue him?
Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
Hauing yet therefore one sonne his welbeloued, he sent him also last vnto them, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.
What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
What shall therefore the Lord of the vineyard doe? He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will giue the vineyard vnto others.
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
For ye haue the poore with you alwayes, and whensoeuer ye will yee may doe them good: but me ye haue not alwayes.
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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.
