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Lexicon :: Strong's G1939 - epithymia

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ἐπιθυμία
Transliteration
epithymia (Key)
Pronunciation
ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:168,339

Trench's Synonyms: lxxxvii. πάθος, ἐπιθυμία, ὁρμή, ὄρεξις.

Strong’s Definitions

ἐπιθυμία epithymía, ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah; from G1937; a longing (especially for what is forbidden):—concupiscence, desire, lust (after).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x

The KJV translates Strong's G1939 in the following manner: lust (31x), concupiscence (3x), desire (3x), lust after (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x
The KJV translates Strong's G1939 in the following manner: lust (31x), concupiscence (3x), desire (3x), lust after (1x).

  1. desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐπιθυμία epithymía, ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah; from G1937; a longing (especially for what is forbidden):—concupiscence, desire, lust (after).
STRONGS G1939:
ἐπιθυμία, ἐπιθυμίας, ἡ (ἐπιθυμέω) (from Herodotus on), the Sept. chiefly for תַּאֲוָה, אַוָּה, חֲמוּד; desire, craving, longing: Luke 22:15 (on which sevin ἐπιθυμέω, at the end); Revelation 18:14; τήν ἐπιθυμίαν ἔχειν εἰς τί, the desire directed toward, Philippians 1:23; ἐν πολλή ἐπιθυμία with great desire, 1 Thessalonians 2:17; plural αἱ περί τά λοιπά ἐπιθυμίαι, Mark 4:19 (Winers Grammar, § 30, 3 N. 5); specifically, desire for what is forbidden, lust (Vulg.concupiscentia): Romans 7:7; James 1:14; 2 Peter 1:4; πάθος ἐπιθυμίας, 1 Thessalonians 4:5; ἐπιθυμία κακῇ, Colossians 3:5 (Proverbs 21:26; (Proverbs 12:12); Plato, legg. 9, p. 854 a.; πονηρά, Xenophon, mem. 1, 2, 64; ἀγαθή, Sir. 14:14 where see Fritzsche (who cites also Proverbs 11:23; Proverbs 13:12)); plural, Galatians 5:24; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Timothy 2:22; 2 Timothy 4:3; 1 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 4:2; with a genitive of the object, ἐπιθυμία μιασμοῦ, for unclean contact, 2 Peter 2:10 (others with Winer's Grammar, § 34, 3 b. take μιασμοῦ as the genitive of quality); with a genitive of the subject, αἱ ἐπιθυμίαι τῶν καρδιῶν, Romans 1:24; with a genitive of the thing by which the desire is excited, ἡ ἐπιθυμία τοῦ κόσμου, 1 John 2:17; τοῦ σώματος, Romans 6:12; τῆς ἀπάτης (see ἀπάτη), Ephesians 4:22; τῆς σαρκός, τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν, 1 John 2:16 (cf. Huther ad loc.); 2 Peter 2:18; τέλειν σαρκός, Galatians 5:16; αἱ σαρκικαι ἐπιθυμίαι, 1 Peter 2:11 (ψυχικαί, σωματικαί, 4 Macc. 1:32); αἱ κοσμικαι ἐπιθυμίαι, Titus 2:12; εἰς ἐπιθυμίας to arouse lusts, Romans 13:14; ποιεῖν τάς ἐπιθυμίας, John 8:44; ὑπακούειν ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις, Romans 6:12 (L T Tr WH); δουλεύειν ἐπιθυμίαις (see δουλεύω, 2 b.), Titus 3:3; ἄγεσθαι ἐπιθυμίαις, 2 Timothy 3:6; πορεύεσθαι ἐν ἐπιθυμίαις, 1 Peter 4:3; πορεύεσθαι κατά τάς ἐπιθυμίας, Jude 1:16, 18; 2 Peter 3:3; ἀναστρέφεσθαι ἐν ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις τῆς σαρκός, Ephesians 2:3. (Synonym: cf. πάθος, and see Trench, § lxxxvii.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Proverbs
11:23; 12:12; 13:12; 21:26
Mark
4:19
Luke
22:15
John
8:44
Romans
1:24; 6:12; 6:12; 7:7; 13:14
Galatians
5:16; 5:24
Ephesians
2:3; 4:22
Philippians
1:23
Colossians
3:5
1 Thessalonians
2:17; 4:5
1 Timothy
6:9
2 Timothy
2:22; 3:6; 4:3
Titus
2:12; 3:3
James
1:14
1 Peter
1:14; 2:11; 4:2; 4:3
2 Peter
1:4; 2:10; 2:18; 3:3
1 John
2:16; 2:17
Jude
1:16; 1:18
Revelation
18:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1939 matches the Greek ἐπιθυμία (epithymia),
which occurs 38 times in 37 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:19 - And the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, and the desire for other things coming in, put a stop to the growth of the word, and it gives no fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15 - And he said, I have had a great desire to keep this Passover with you before I come to my death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:44 - You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:24 - For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:12 - For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:7 - What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:8 - But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:14 - But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:16 - But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:24 - And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:3 - Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:22 - That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:23 - I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5 - Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:17 - But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:5 - Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:9 - But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:22 - But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 3:6 - For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:3 - For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxTit 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 2:12 - Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

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Unchecked Copy BoxTit 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 3:3 - For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:14 - But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:15 - Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:14 - Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:11 - My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:2 - So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:3 - Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:4 - And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:10 - But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:18 - For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:3 - Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:16 - Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:17 - And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:16 - These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:18 - How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:14 - And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, and all things delicate and shining have come to an end and will never again be seen.
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