List

LIST.—The Old Eng. vb. ‘to list’ occurs in Mat 17:12, Mar 9:13, Joh 3:8, Jas 3:4. It means ‘to desire or choose.’

A variant of “lust” (see LUST), meaning “to wish,” found in the King James Version of Mat 17:12 parallel Mar 9:13; Joh 3:8, as translation of θέλω, thélō, and in Jas 3:4 as translation of βούλομαι, boúlomai. 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 The word is obsolete in modern English, but Joh 3:8 is still used proverbially, “The wind bloweth where it listeth.”