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Strong's #1939: epithumia (pronounced ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah)

from 1937; a longing (especially for what is forbidden):--concupiscence, desire, lust (after).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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epithumia

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

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G1937

Citing in TDNT: 3:168, 339




Usage:

This word is used 38 times:

Mark 4:19: "of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke"
Luke 22:15: "he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover"
John 8:44: "devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do."
Romans 1:24: "to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor"
Romans 6:12: "it in the lusts thereof."
Romans 7:7: "for I had not known lust, except the law"
Romans 7:8: "in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin"
Romans 13:14: "for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts"
Galatians 5:16: "and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."
Galatians 5:24: "the affections and lusts."
Ephesians 2:3: "in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the"
Ephesians 4:22: "according to the deceitful lusts;"
Philippians 1:23: "between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with"
Colossians 3:5: "uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is"
1 Thessalonians 2:17: "your face with great desire."
1 Thessalonians 4:5: "Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles"
1 Timothy 6:9: "foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in"
2 Timothy 2:22: "Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith,"
2 Timothy 3:6: "with sins, led away with divers lusts,"
2 Timothy 4:3: "but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching"
Titus 2:12: "ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and"
Titus 3:3: "deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in"
James 1:14: "when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."
James 1:15: "Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished,"
1 Peter 1:14: "fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:"
1 Peter 2:11: "pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the"
1 Peter 4:2: "of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God."
1 Peter 4:3: "when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and"
2 Peter 1:4: "corruption that is in the world through lust."
2 Peter 2:10: "after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government."
2 Peter 2:18: "words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped"
2 Peter 3:3: "after their own lusts,"
1 John 2:16: "the world, the lust of the flesh, and the"
1 John 2:16: "flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the"
1 John 2:17: "passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the"
Jude 1:16: "walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh"
Jude 1:18: "after their own ungodly lusts."
Revelation 18:14: "fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and"









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