noun · feminine
epipothias
Strong’sG1974
longing, eager desire
stem epipothi-once 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.
ἐπιποθία (WH, -πόθεια), -ας, ἡ = ἐπιπόθησις,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1974 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidep-ee-poth-ee'-ah
intense longing
Fromfrom G1971;
King Jamesgreat 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
={ἐπιπόθησις}, NT
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 | epipothias | epipothiais |
| object accusative | epipothian1×ἐπιποθίαν | epipothiain |
| direct address vocative | epipothiar | epipothiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | epipothiau | epipothiaiu |
| to, for dative | epipothia | epipothiai |
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
epipothia 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
epipothian“desire”objectaccusative singular1×
Romans 15:23“desire”… topon echarōntos en tei klimei houtei, epipothian de echarōntos teu erchara pros vin …… for me in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to visit you,