International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: List

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: List


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A variant of “lust” (see LUST), meaning “to wish,” found in the King James Version of parallel ; , as translation of θέλω, thélō, and in as translation of βούλομαι, boúlomai. The last case the English Revised Version has rendered “will,” and the American Standard Revised Version has made the same change throughout. The word is obsolete in modern English, but is still used proverbially, “The wind bloweth where it listeth.”