Luke 14:28
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
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Intending
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Acts 20:13
And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.
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βούλομαι
boúlomai · boo'-lom-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form34 total Strong's occurrences
to "will," i.e. (reflexively) be willing
Strong's KJV usage: :--be disposed, minded, intend, list, (be, of own) will (-ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 12:4Strong's last: Acts 12:4
Open full G1014 profile →θέλω
thélō · thel'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form217 total Strong's occurrences
to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas G1014 properly denotes rather a passive acquiescence in objective considerations), i.e. choose or prefer (literally or figuratively); by implication, to wish, i.e. be inclined to (sometimes adverbially, gladly); impersonally for the future tense, to be about to; by Hebraism, to delight in
Strong's KJV usage: :--desire, be disposed (forward), intend, list, love, mean, please, have rather, (be) will (have, -ling, - ling(-ly)).
Strong's first: Luke 14:28Strong's last: Luke 14:28
Open full G2309 profile →μέλλω
méllō · mel'-lo
1 times translated as this KJV form110 total Strong's occurrences
to intend, i.e. be about to be, do, or suffer something (of persons or things, especially events; in the sense of purpose, duty, necessity, probability, possibility, or hesitation)
Strong's KJV usage: :--about, after that, be (almost), (that which is, things, + which was for) to come, intend, was to (be), mean, mind, be at the point, (be) ready, + return, shall (begin), (which, that) should (after, afterwards, hereafter) tarry, which was for, will, would, be yet.
Strong's first: Acts 20:13Strong's last: Acts 20:13
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G2309
For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
G1014
And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
G3195
And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.
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intending
INTEND'ING, participle present tense Meaning; designing; purposing.
1. Stretching; distending. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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