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A variant of "lust" (see LUST), meaning "to wish," found in the King James Version ofMt 17:12parallelMr 9:13;Joh 3:8, as translation of thelo, and inJas 3:4as translation of boulomai. The last case the English Revised Version has rendered "will," and the American Standard Revised Version has made the same change throughout. The word is obsolete in modern English, butJoh 3:8is still used proverbially, "The wind bloweth where it listeth."