Biblica Analytica
G1939 Greek

ἐπιθυμία

epithumia

desire

Lexicon Entry

Definition
desire
Transliteration
epithumia
Strong's Number
G1939
Occurrences
38

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Explored

The Greek word ἐπιθυμία (epithumia) is a concept that appears 38 times in the Bible, defined as "desire". This term encompasses a range of feelings and motivations, from basic human needs to intense cravings and lusts. In its various occurrences, epithumia often connotes a strong, often uncontrollable, longing for something. The usage of epithumia in the Bible spans different contexts, including physical appetites, material possessions, and relationships. It can also imply a sense of covetousness or envy, where individuals are driven by a desire for something that belongs to others. This broad range of applications highlights the complexity of human desire and its potential impact on.ImageAlign the human experience. The significance of epithumia lies in its ability to capture the multifaceted nature of human desire, revealing both its positive and negative aspects. By examining this concept, we can gain insight into the human condition, acknowledging the role of desire in shaping our thoughts, emotions, and actions.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
G1939
Lemma
ἐπιθυμία
Transliteration
epithumia
Definition
desire
Occurrences
38
Model
workers-ai
Prompt version
1

AI synthesis uses only the lexicon data above as context — never training knowledge.

Occurrences in Scripture

38 total occurrences across the text

Mark 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.

Luke 22:15

He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

John 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 lies.

Romans 1:24

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

Romans 6:12

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Romans 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.”

Romans 7:8

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Ephesians 2:3

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Ephesians 4:22

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

Philippians 1:23

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 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,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

2 Timothy 2:22

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

2 Timothy 3:6

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

2 Timothy 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,

Titus 2:12

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

Titus 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.

James 1:14

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

James 1:15

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

1 Peter 1:14

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1 Peter 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.

1 Peter 4:3

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

2 Peter 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.

2 Peter 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;

2 Peter 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;

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

1 John 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.

1 John 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.

1 John 2:17

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Jude 1:16

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

Jude 1:18

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

Revelation 18:14

The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.