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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 TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:19 - but the cares of the world, and the delight in riches, and the desire for other things, enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:15 - And he said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:44 - You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 1:24 - Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 6:12 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:7 - What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have known sin. I should not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 7:8 - But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:14 - But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:16 - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:24 - And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:3 - Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:22 - Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts,

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:23 - I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:5 - Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:17 - But since we were bereft of you, brethren, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:5 - not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 6:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:9 - But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:22 - So shun youthful passions and aim at righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 3:6 - For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:3 - For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings,

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Unchecked Copy Box Tit 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 2:12 - training us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions, and to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world,

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Unchecked Copy Box Tit 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 3:3 - For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:14 - but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:15 - Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full-grown brings forth death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:14 - As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:11 - Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:2 - so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer by human passions but by the will of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:3 - Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 1:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:10 - and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and wilful, they are not afraid to revile the glorious ones,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:18 - For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 3:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:3 - First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own passions

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 2:16

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:17 - And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:16 - These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:18 - they said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions."

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:14 - "The fruit for which thy soul longed has gone from thee, and all thy dainties and thy splendor are lost to thee, never to be found again!"
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