Strong's #1971: epipotheo (pronounced ep-ee-poth-eh'-o)

from 1909 and potheo (to yearn); to dote upon, i.e. intensely crave possession (lawfully or wrongfully):--(earnestly) desire (greatly), (greatly) long (after), lust.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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epipotheō

1) to long for, desire

2) to pursue with love, to long after

3) to lust, harbour forbidden desire

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G1909 and potheo (to yearn)

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Romans 1:11: "For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some"
2 Corinthians 5:2: "this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which"
2 Corinthians 9:14: "prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding"
Philippians 1:8: "my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels"
Philippians 2:26: "For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because"
1 Thessalonians 3:6: "good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as"
2 Timothy 1:4: " Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled"
James 4:5: "dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?"
1 Peter 2:2: "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word,"