Purpose (Noun and Verb)
[ A-1,Noun,
G1013,
boulema ]
a purpose or will" (akin to boulomai, "to will, wish, purpose"), "a deliberate intention," occurs in
Acts 27:43, "purpose;"
Romans 9:19, "will;"
1 Peter 4:3, in the best mss. (some have thelema), AV, "will," RV, "desire." See
WILL.
[ A-2,Noun,
G4286,
prothesis ]
"a setting forth" (used of the "showbread"), "a purpose" (akin to B, No. 3), is used
(a) of the "purposes of God,"
Romans 8:28;
Romans 9:11;
Ephesians 1:11;
Ephesians 3:11;
2 Timothy 1:9;
(b) of "human purposes," as to things material,
Acts 27:13; spiritual,
Acts 11:23;
2 Timothy 3:10. See
SHEWBREAD.
[ A-3,Noun,
G1106,
gnome ]
"an opinion, purpose, judgement," is used in the genitive case with ginomai, "to come to be," in
Acts 20:3, "he purposed," AV (RV, "he determined"), lit., "he came to be of purpose."
Notes: The following phrases are translated with the word "purpose:"
(a) eis auto touto, "for this same (or very) "purpose," lit., "unto this same (thing),"
Romans 9:17;
Ephesians 6:22;
Colossians 4:8;
(b) eis touto, "for this purpose,"
Acts 26:16, AV (RV, "to this end"), lit., "unto this;" so
1 John 3:8;
(c) eis ti, "to what purpose,"
Matthew 26:8, lit., "unto what;"
Mark 14:4; RV, "to what purpose" (AV, "why").
[ B-1,Verb,
G1011,
bouleuo ]
"to take counsel, resolve," always in the Middle Voice in the NT, "to take counsel with oneself," to determine with oneself, is translated "I purpose" in
2 Corinthians 1:17 (twice). See
COUNSEL, B, No. 1.
[ B-2,Verb,
G5087,
tithemi ]
"to put, place," is used in the Middle Voice in
Acts 19:21, "purposed," in the sense of resolving.
[ B-3,Verb,
G4388,
protithemi ]
"to set before, set forth" (pro, "before," and No. 2, akin to A, No. 2), is used in
Romans 3:25, "set forth," RV marg., "purposed," AV marg., "foreordained," Middle Voice, which lays stress upon the personal interest which God had in so doing; either meaning, "to set forth" or "to purpose," would convey a scriptural view, but the context bears out the former as being intended here; in
Romans 1:13, "I purposed;"
Ephesians 1:9, "He purposed (in Him)," RV. See
SET.
[ B-4,Verb,
G4160,
poieo ]
"to make," is translated "He purposed" in
Ephesians 3:11 (for the noun prothesis, in the same verse, See A, No. 2). See
DO, No. 1.
[ B-5,Verb,
G4255,
proaireo ]
"to bring forth or forward," or, in the Middle Voice, "to take by choice, prefer, purpose," is translated "He hath purposed" in
2 Corinthians 9:7, RV (AV, "he purposed").
Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words