Strong's G1937 ἐπιθυμέω (epithymeo)

Now then go on thy way, for thou hast earnestly desired to depart to the house of thy father; wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

Issachar has desired that which is good; Resting between the inheritances.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house; nor his field, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any of his cattle, nor whatever belongs to thy neighbor.

For when I shall have cast out the nations before thy face, and shall have enlarged thy coasts, no one shall desire thy land, whenever thou mayest go up to appear before the Lord thy God, three times in the year.

And the mixed multitude among them lusted exceedingly; and they and the children of Israel sat down and wept and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any beast of his, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.

Ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: thou shalt not covet their silver, neither shalt thou take to thyself gold from them, lest thou shouldest offend thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

And if the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy borders, as he said to thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh; if thy soul should desire to eat flesh, thou shalt eat flesh according to all the desire of thy soul.

And thou shalt give the money for whatsoever thy soul shall desire, for oxen or for sheep, or for wine, or thou shalt lay it out on strong drink, or on whatsoever thy soul may desire, and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice and thy house,

And if a Levite come from one of the cities of all the children of Israel, where he himself dwells, accordingly as his mind desires, to the place which he shall have chosen,

And if the man that sacrificed said, First let the fat be burned, as it is fit, and take for thyself of all things which thy soul desires: then he would say, Nay, for thou shalt give it me now; and if not, I will take it by force.

And Jonathan said to David, What does thy soul desire, and what shall I do for thee?

And Abner said to David, I will arise now, and go, and gather to my lord the king all Israel; and I will make with him a covenant, and thou shalt reign over all whom thy soul desires. And David sent away Abner, and he departed in peace.

And David longed, and said, Who will give me water to drink out of the well that is in Bethlehem by the gate? now the band of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign as thy soul desires, and thou shalt be king over Israel.

And David longed, and said, Who will give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, that is in the gate?

and Baalath, and all the strong cities which Solomon had, and all his chariot cities, and cities of horsemen, and all things that Solomon desired according to his desire of building, in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all his kingdom.

And he shall not be able to take any food, Though his soul shall desire meat;

Because the king has desired thy beauty; For he is thy Lord.

And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the dry land.

My soul has longed exceedingly For thy judgments at all times.

Behold, I have desired thy commandments: Quicken me in thy righteousness.

An ungodly man entertains evil desires all the day: But the righteous is unsparingly merciful and compassionate.

desire not his provisions; For these belong to a false life.

Sup not with an envious man, Neither desire thou his meats:

My son, envy not bad men, Nor desire to be with them.

A man to whom God shall give Wealth, and substance, and honor, And he wants nothing for his soul Of all things that he shall desire, Yet God shall not give him power to eat of it, For a stranger shall devour it: This is vanity, and an evil infirmity.

As the apple among the trees of the wood, So is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, And his fruit was sweet in my throat.

For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.

which our soul longs for: my spirit seeks thee very early in the morning, O God, for thy commandments are a light on the earth: learn righteousness, ye that dwell upon the earth.

Neither hast thou purchased for me victims for silver, neither have I desired the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou didst stand before me in thy sins, and in thine iniquities.

They seek me day by day, and desire to know my ways, as a people that had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of their God: they now ask of me righteous judgment, and desire to draw nigh to God,

and thy God shall be with thee continually, and thou shalt be satisfied according as thy soul desires; and thy bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain from which the water has not failed.

But I have not been weary of following thee, nor have I desired the day of man; thou knowest; the words that proceed out of my lips are before thy face.

Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.

And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

And many desired her, but none knew her all the days of her life, after that Manasseh her husband was dead, and was gathered to his people.

and said to the people, Be not greedy of the spoils, inasmuch as there is a battle before us,

Thus did he slander him, because he was desirous of his kingdom.

Hence it is, then, that when lusting after water animals and birds, and four-footed beasts, and all kinds of food which are forbidden us by the law, we withhold ourselves through the mastery of reasoning.

For instance, the law says, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor anything that belongs to thy neighbor.

Now, then, since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice.

Wherefore set your affection upon my words; Desire them, and ye shall be instructed.

She preventeth them that desire her, In making herself first known unto them.

To the end that they, desiring food, Might for the ugly sight of the beasts sent among them Loath even that, which they must needs desire; But these, suffering penury for a short space, Might be made partakers of a strange taste.

And the Lord shall give her unto thee.

Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children, Neither delight in ungodly sons.

Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, And fill yourselves with my fruits.

Thine eye desireth favor and beauty: But more than both the first sprouting of corn.

And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh than the children that fed at the king’s table.

them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men