Thelima

θέλημα (thelēma) - Will, wish, desire, intention; what one wills or wishes to happen.

Historical Examples

Period	Evidence
c. 750–700 BCE	Homer uses ἐθέλω (ethelō), to wish, will, or be willing. Iliad 1.549, 9.397
c. 600–500 BCE	θέλω (thelō), the shorter verbal form, appears in archaic poets, including Solon and Hipponax
c. 450–400 BCE	θέλημα (thelēma), the noun meaning will or wish, is attested in Antiphon the Sophist, fragment 58
c. 350 BCE	Aeneas Tacticus uses θέλημα in Poliorcetica 18.19
c. 300–100 BCE	The noun appears in the Greek Septuagint
1st century CE	θέλημα is widely used in New Testament Greek