Lexicon epipotheó: to long for Original Word: ἐπιποθέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: epipotheó Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-poth-eh'-o) Short Definition: I long for, strain after, desire greatly Definition: I long for, strain after, desire greatly, have affection for. HELPS word-Studies 1971 epipothéō (from 1909 /epí, "on, fitting" intensifying potheō, "yearn for") – properly, to long for, especially as it is fitting (apt) – i.e. builds on (Gk epi, "upon") the objective. [This root (epipoth-) means "yearn affectionately," having "a great affection for, to have a yearning love for," L & N, 1, 25.47), i.e. to "long for, strain after, desire greatly" (Souter).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom epi and potheó (to yearn) Definitionto long for NASB Translationdesires (1), long (3), longing (4), yearn (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1971: ἐπιποθέωἐπιποθέω, ἐπιποθῶ; 1 aorist ἐπεπόθησα; properly, ποθον ἔχω ἐπί τί (i. e. ἐπί is directive, not intensive; cf. ἐπί, D. 2) (cf. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. i., p. 30f); to long for, desire: followed by the infinitive 2 Corinthians 5:2; ἰδεῖν τινα, Romans 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 3:6; 2 Timothy 1:4; Philippians 2:26 L brackets WH text brackets; τί, 1 Peter 2:2 ( ἐπί τί, Psalm 41:2 ()); τινα to be possessed with a desire for, long for (Winer's Grammar, § 30, 10 b.), Philippians 2:26 R G T Tr WH marginal reading; to pursue with love, to tong after: 2 Corinthians 9:14; Philippians 1:8 (τάς ἐντολάς Θεοῦ, Psalm 118:131 ()); absolutely to lust (i. e. harbor forbidden desire): James 4:5, on which passage see φθόνος. (Herodotus, Plato, Diodorus, Plutarch, Lucian.)
Strong's earnestly desire, greatly long after From epi and potheo (to yearn); to dote upon, i.e. Intensely crave possession (lawfully or wrongfully) -- (earnestly) desire (greatly), (greatly) long (after), lust. see GREEK epi |
