ἑκούσιος
voluntary, willing
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἑκούσιος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 13 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 7:16 ἑκούσιος You⌃ shall eat no blood in all your habitations, either of beasts or of birds.
- Leviticus 23:38 ἑκούσιος besides the sabbaths of the Lord, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides your free will offerings, which you⌃ shall give to the Lord.
- Numbers 15:3 ἑκούσιος and you will offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, a whole burnt offering or a meat-offering to perform a vow, or a free-will offering, or to offer in your feasts a sacrifice of sweet savor to the Lord, whether of the herd or the flock:
- Numbers 29:39 ἑκούσιος These sacrifices shall you⌃ offer to the Lord in your feasts, besides your vows; and you⌃ shall offer your free will offerings and your whole burnt offerings, and your meat-offerings and your drink-offerings, and your peace-offerings.
- Deuteronomy 12:6 ἑκούσιος And you⌃ shall carry there your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your first fruits, and your vowed-offerings, and your free will offerings, and your offerings of thanksgiving, the firstborn of your herds, and of your flocks.
- Ezra 1:4 ἑκούσιος And let every Jew that is left go from every place where he sojourns, and the men of his place shall help him with silver, and gold, and goods, and cattle, together with the voluntary offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 1:6 ἑκούσιος And all that were round about strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with cattle, and with presents, besides the voluntary offerings.
- Ezra 3:5 ἑκούσιος And after this the perpetual whole burnt offering, and offering for the season of new moon, and for all the hallowed feasts to the Lord, and for every one that offered a free will offering to the Lord.
- Ezra 8:28 ἑκούσιος And I said to them, You⌃ are holy to the Lord; and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are free will offerings to the Lord God of our fathers.
- Ezra 15:8 ἑκούσιος
- Psalms 67:10 ἑκούσιος Your creatures dwell in it: you have in your goodness prepared for the poor.
- Psalms 118:108 ἑκούσιος Accept, I pray you, O Lord, the free will offerings of my mouth, and teach me your judgments.
- Proverbs 27:6 ἑκούσιος The wounds of a friend are more to be trusted than the spontaneous kisses of an enemy.
About this word
About this word
ἑκούσιος (hekoúsios), “voluntary, willing,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 13 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →