Help QuickNav Adv. Options
HNV

HNV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's G1939 - epithymia

Choose a new font size and typeface
ἐπιθυμία
Transliteration
epithymia (Key)
Pronunciation
ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah
Listen
Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:19 - and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15 - He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Pesach with you before I suffer,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:44 - You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rom 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:24 - Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rom 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:12 - Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rom 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:7 - What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rom 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:8 - But sin, finding occasion through the mitzvah, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rom 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:14 - But put on the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:16 - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:24 - Those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:3 - among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:22 - that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Phl 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:23 - But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Messiah, which is far better.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5 - Put to death therefore your members which are on the eretz: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:17 - But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:5 - not in the passion of lust, even as the Goyim who don't know God;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 6:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:9 - But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:22 - Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and shalom with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 3:6 - For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:3 - For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Tit 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 2:12 - instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Tit 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 3:3 - For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jas 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:14 - But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jas 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:15 - Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:14 - as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:11 - Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:2 - that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:3 - For we have spent enough of our past time living in doing the desire of the Goyim, and to have walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 1:4 - by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:10 - but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:18 - For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:3 - knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:16 - For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:17 - The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:16 - These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:18 - They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Rev 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:14 - The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
HNV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
HNV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan