epithymia · desire

What it means

epithymia (ἐπιθυμία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “desire”.

Also evil desire, craving.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A strong craving for something good.
2. Wanting what is forbidden, wrong cravings.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• desires ×22
• desire ×13
• coveting ×2
• longed for ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Mark×1
• Luke×1
• John×1
• Romans×5
• Galatians×2
• Ephesians×2
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×2
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Timothy×3
• Titus×2
• James×2
• 1 Peter×4
• 2 Peter×4
• 1 John×3
• Jude×2
• Revelation×1

• Mark 4:19

  and the worries of the age and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things, coming in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

• Luke 22:15

  And he said to them, “With desire I have 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 he does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of it.

• Romans 1:24

  Therefore God handed them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

• Romans 6:12

  Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires;

• Romans 7:7

  What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! On the contrary, I did not know sin except through the law; for I would not have known coveting if the law had not said, You shall not covet.

• Romans 7:8

  But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting; for apart from the law sin is dead.

• Romans 13:14

  But put on the Lord Jesus the Messiah, and do not make provision for the flesh for its desires.

• Galatians 5:16

  But I say: walk by the Spirit, and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the flesh.

• Galatians 5:24

  And those of the Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

• Ephesians 2:3

  among whom we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

• Ephesians 4:22

  that you put off, according to your former way of life, the old man who is being corrupted according to the desires of deceit,

• Philippians 1:23

  I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and to be with the Messiah, for that is far, far better;

• Colossians 3:5

  So put to death the members that are on the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry;

• 1 Thessalonians 2:17

  But we, brothers, having been separated from you for a short time —in person, not in heart— were all the more eager, with great desire, to see your face,

• 1 Thessalonians 4:5

  not in the passion of desire, as also the nations do who do not know God;

• 1 Timothy 6:9

  But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

• 2 Timothy 2:22

  But flee youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

• 2 Timothy 3:6

  For among them are those who creep into households and captivate weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires,

• 2 Timothy 4:3

  For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but with itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers according to their own desires,

• Titus 2:12

  training us that, having denied ungodliness and worldly desires, we may live sensibly and justly and godly in the present age,

• Titus 3:3

  For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

• James 1:14

  But each one is tempted by his own desire, being dragged away and enticed.

• James 1:15

  Then desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth death.

• 1 Peter 1:14

  As children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the desires you had formerly in your ignorance,

• 1 Peter 2:11

  Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from the fleshly desires which wage war against the soul.

• 1 Peter 4:2

  so as to live the rest of your time in the flesh no longer for human desires but for the will of God.

• 1 Peter 4:3

  For the time that has passed is enough for doing what the nations want, having walked in debauchery, desires, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and lawless idolatries.

• 2 Peter 1:4

  through which he has granted us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become sharers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through desire.

• 2 Peter 2:10

  and especially those who walk after the flesh in defiling desire and despise authority. Bold, arrogant, they do not tremble when they blaspheme the glories,

• 2 Peter 2:18

  For uttering swelling words of futility, they entice with desires of the flesh, with debaucheries, those who are barely escaping from those who live in error,

• 2 Peter 3:3

  knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, walking according to their own desires

• 1 John 2:16

  because all that is in the world — the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance of possessions — is not from the Father but is from the world.

• 1 John 2:17

  And the world is passing away, and its desire; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

• Jude 1:16

  These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; and their mouth speaks swelling words, flattering people for the sake of advantage.

• Jude 1:18

  because they were telling you, In the last time there will be scoffers walking according to their own desires for ungodliness.

• Revelation 18:14

  And the ripe fruit that your soul longed for has gone from you, and all the luxuries and the splendors have perished from you, and never again will they find them.

And 1 more times.