noun · feminine
epipothēsias
Strong’sG1972
eager longing, desire
stem epipothēsi-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
**† ἐπι-πόθησις, -εως, ἡ
[in Aq.: Ez 23:11 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1972 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidep-ee-poth'-ay-sis
a longing for
Fromfrom G1971;
King Jamesearnest (vehement) desire.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
longing after, τινός NT+2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | epipothēsias | epipothēsiais |
| object accusative | epipothēsian2×ἐπιπόθησιν | epipothēsiain |
| direct address vocative | epipothēsiar | epipothēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | epipothēsiau | epipothēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | epipothēsia | epipothēsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
epipothēsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
epipothēsian“longing”objectaccusative singular2×
2 Corinthians 7:7… epi vi, anangelarōntos ni tan vu epipothēsian, ton vu odurmon, ton vu zēlon …… you. He told us about your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for …
2 Corinthians 7:11… apologian, alla aganaktēsian, alla fobon, alla epipothēsian, alla zēlon, alla ekdikēsian; en pante …… yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every …