Orexis means “lust” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3715 — kephir in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3715 ὄρεξις (orexis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. orexis (or'-ex-is) n. 1. excitement of the mind, i.e. longing after [from G3713] It has 9 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include lust. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
orexis (or'-ex-is) n. 1. excitement of the mind, i.e. longing after [from G3713] KJV: lust Root(s): G3713
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3715. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
lust
Usage: ὄρεξις, -εως, ἡ (ὀρέγομαι), [in LXX Wis.14:2 15:5 16:2-3, Sir.18:30 23:6, 4Ma.1:33 4Mac 1:35 * ;] the most general ward for all kinds of desire, longing, appetite: of lust, Rom.1:27 SYN.: see: πάθος (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render orexis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3715 (ὄρεξις) appears 8 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For whence is it, otherwise, that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would ensue from them? Is it not because reasoning is able to command the appetites? I believe so.
For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the impulses of the body are reined in by reasoning.
For verily desire of gain devised that, And the workman built it by his skill.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3715.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
For whence is it, otherwise, that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would ensue from them? Is it not because reasoning is able to command the appetites? I believe so.
For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the impulses of the body are reined in by reasoning.
For verily desire of gain devised that, And the workman built it by his skill.
The sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it, And so they desire the form of a dead image, that hath no breath.
Instead of which punishment, dealing graciously with thine own people, Thou preparedst for them meat of a strange taste, Even quails to stir up their appetite:
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.
Go not after thy lusts, But refrain thyself from thine appetites.
Let not the greediness of the belly nor lust of the flesh take hold of me; And give me not over into an impudent mind.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3715, grouped by book.
Orexis (Strong's G3715) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lust". orexis (or'-ex-is) n. 1. excitement of the mind, i.e. longing after [from G3713]
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G3715 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3715 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lust. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3715, with linked reader references where each row is available.