Leviticus 1:3
If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
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Voluntary
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Colossians 2:18
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
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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: Colossians 2:18Strong's last: Colossians 2:18
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nᵉdâbâh · ned-aw-baw'
1 times translated as this KJV form26 total Strong's occurrences
properly (abstractly) spontaneity, or (adjectively) spontaneous; also (concretely) a spontaneous or (by inference, in plural) abundant gift
Strong's KJV usage: free(-will) offering, freely, plentiful, voluntary(-ily, offering), willing(-ly), offering).
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Strong's first: Ezekiel 46:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 46:12
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Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
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voluntary
VOL'UNTARY, adjective [Latin voluntarius, from voluntas, will, from volo.]
1. Acting by choice or spontaneously; acting without being influenced or impelled by another.
2. Free, or having power to act by choice; not being under restraint; as, man is a voluntary agent.
3. Proceeding from choice or free will.
That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action, is the true principle of orthodoxy.
4. Willing; acting with willingness.
She fell to lust a voluntary prey.
5. Done by design; purposed; intended. If a man kills another by lopping a tree, here is no voluntary murder.
6. Done freely, or of choice; proceeding from free will. He went into voluntary exile. He made a voluntary surrender.
7. Acting of his own accord; spontaneous; as the voluntary dictates of knowledge.
8. Subject to the will; as the voluntary motions of an animal. Thus the motion of a leg or an arm is voluntary but the motion of the heart is involuntary.
A voluntary escape, in law, is the escape of a prisoner by the express consent of the sheriff.
Voluntary jurisdiction, is that which is exercised in doing that which no one opposes; as in granting dispensations, etc.
Voluntary affidavit or oath, is one made in an extra-judicial matter.
Voluntary waste, is that which is committed by positive acts.
VOL'UNTARY, noun
1. One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer. [In this sense, volunteer is now generally used.]
2. In music, a piece played by a musician extemporarily, according to his fancy. In the Philosophical Transactions, we have a method of writing voluntaries, as fast as the musician plays the notes. This is by a cylinder turning under the keys of the organ.
3. A composition for the organ.
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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