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)

Etymology

a strengthened form of G3199 (μέλω) (through the idea of expectation);

Where the KJV renders it

• about
• after that
• be (almost)
• (that which is
• things
• + which was for) to come
• intend
• was to (be)
• mean
• mind
• be at the point
• (be) ready
• + return
• shall (begin)
• (which
• that) should (after
• afterwards
• hereafter) tarry
• which was for
• will
• would
• be yet

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.