Purpose

"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 setting forth" (used of the "showbread"), "a purpose" (akin to B, No. 3), is used (a) of the "purposes of God," Romans 8:28; 9:11; Ephesians 1:11; 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.

"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."

"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.

"to put, place," is used in the Middle Voice in Acts 19:21 , "purposed," in the sense of resolving.

"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.

"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.

"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").