ἐπιθυμία epithumia

Greek word for “desire” · Strong’s G1939 · used 38 times in 37 verses

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Meaning

ἐπιθυμία, -ας, ἡ; (έπιθυμέω);

How it is translated

Glosses given for epithumia in context, with how often each is used:

• desires 13
• desire 12
• lusts 4
• passions 4
• covetousness 2
• lust 1
• passion 1
• evil desires 1

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Romans 7 (2), Galatians 5 (2), James 1 (2), 1 Peter 4 (2), 2 Peter 2 (2), 1 John 2 (2), Jude 1 (2), Mark 4 (1), Luke 22 (1), John 8 (1)

Forms

• ἐπιθυμίας 13
• ἐπιθυμίαις 10
• ἐπιθυμίαν 5
• ἐπιθυμίᾳ 4
• ἐπιθυμία 4
• ἐπιθυμίαι 1
• ἐπιθυμιῶν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with epithumia more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• σάρξ sarx “flesh” 8
• πορεύω poreuō “to travel” 5
• ἁμαρτία hamartia “sin” 5
• κατά kata “according to” 6
• ἴδιος idios “one's own/private” 4
• ὑπέρογκος huperogkos “boastful” 2
• ἐμπαίκτης empaiktēs “a mocker” 2
• πάθος pathos “passion” 2
• δελεάζω deleazō “to entice” 2
• ἀποφεύγω apopheugō “to escape” 2
• εἰδωλολατρεία eidōlolatreia “idolatry” 2
• χρόνος chronos “time” 3

Key verses

The verses using epithumia that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• John 8:44 — Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no…
• Ephesians 2:3 — Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature…
• Colossians 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is…
• 1 Timothy 6:9 — But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• 2 Timothy 4:3 — For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
• Titus 2:12 — Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
• Titus 3:3 — For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one…
• 1 Peter 4:2 — That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• 1 Peter 4:3 — For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings,…
• 2 Peter 2:10 — But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak…
• 2 Peter 2:18 — For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from…
• Jude 1:16 — These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.