noun · feminine
orexias
Strong’sG3715
strong desire, lust
stem orexi-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.
** ὄρεξις, -εως, ἡ
(< ὀρέγομαι), [in LXX Wi 14:2 15:5 16:2, 3, Si 18:30 23:6, IV Mac 1:33, 35*;]
SYN.: v.s. πάθος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3715 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidor'-ex-is
excitement of the mind, i.e. longing after
Fromfrom G3713;
King Jameslust.
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
(ὀρέγω) general word for all kinds of appetency, conation, including ἐπιθυμία, θυμός, βούλησις, Refs 4th c.BC+ K.; opposed to φυγή, Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to ἔκκλισις, Refs 2nd c.AD+
1 with genitive objecti, longing or yearning after a thing, desire for it, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 absolutely, propension, appetency, ὄ. βουλευτική Refs 4th c.BC+; ὄ. διανοητικήRefs 4th c.BC+
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 | orexias | orexiais |
| object accusative | orexian | orexiain |
| direct address vocative | orexiar | orexiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | orexiau | orexiaiu |
| to, for dative | orexia1×ὀρέξει | orexiai |
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
orexia 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
orexia“lust”to, fordative singular1×
Romans 1:27… chrēsian tau thēluau ekkaiila en ta orexia autoiu eis allēloin, arsenois en arsenoi …… relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent …