Luke 1:62 ἐνένευον δὲ τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ τὸ τί ἂν θέλοι καλεῖσθαι αὐτό.
They made signs to his father, what he would have him called.
Verb: Third Person Present Active Optative Singular
Acts 17:18 τινὲς δὲ καὶ τῶν Ἐπικουρείων καὶ Στοϊκῶν φιλοσόφων συνέβαλλον αὐτῷ, καί τινες ἔλεγον· τί ἂν θέλοι ὁ σπερμολόγος οὗτος λέγειν; οἱ δέ ξένων δαιμονίων δοκεῖ καταγγελεὺς εἶναι ὅτι τὸν Ἰησοῦν καὶ τὴν ἀνάστασιν εὐηγγελίζετο.
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Verb: Third Person Present Active Optative Singular
1 Peter 3:17 κρεῖττον γὰρ ἀγαθοποιοῦντας, εἰ θέλοι τὸ θέλημα τοῦ θεοῦ, πάσχειν ἢ κακοποιοῦντας.
For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
Verb: Third Person Present Active Optative Singular
Greek New Testament base text is the Westcott-Hort edition of 1881 with Readings of Nestle27/UBS4 shown via the following notation: [UBS4 only]; (WH only); WH / UBS4; WH ⇔ UBS4.Punctuation and Paragraph Formatting based on the Public Domain Greek New Testament using Unicode/UTF8 at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
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