μέλλω
mellō
“to ensue”
Definition
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)
a strengthened form of G3199 (μέλω) (through the idea of expectation);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Verb
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Greek Verb
Occurrences
μέλλω appears 108 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,
As they were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?”“Do you speak Greek?” he replied.
“Men of Israel,” he said, “consider carefully what you are about to do to these men.
Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and make Him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself.
When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.