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ἡδονή

Strong’s: G2237

Associated OET lemmas: ἡδονή

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: ἡδονή; -ῆς

Related lemmas: ἥδομαι · αὐθάδης · ἡδύοσμον · συνήδομαι · φιλήδονος

Sense 1: that which is pleasurable, pleasure

Semantic entry: 25.111

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Enjoy, Take Pleasure In, Be Fond of Doing

Definition: that which someone is fond of doing, in that it produces enjoyment

LUK 8:14: RV LUK 8:14 · LV LUK 8:14 · Read together LUK 8:14

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OET-RV LUK 8:14

14 The seeds among the thistles are those who heard the message but get choked under worries and wealth and the good life, and so they never reach maturity.

OET-LV LUK 8:14

14 And the seed having _fallen into the thorns, these are the ones having _heard, and going are _being _choked under worries, and riches, and gratifications of_ the _living, and are_ not _brought _to _maturity.

JAM 4:3: RV JAM 4:3 · LV JAM 4:3 · Read together JAM 4:3

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OET-RV JAM 4:3

3 and when you all do ask, it doesn’t get answered because you ask with wrong motives—trying get what you want to spend on your own wants.

OET-LV JAM 4:3

3 you _are _requesting and not you _all _are _receiving, because wrongly you _all _are _requesting, in _order _that in the gratifications of _you _all you _all _may _spend it.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

LUK: RV LUK 8:14 · LV LUK 8:14 · Read together LUK 8:14

JAM: RV JAM 4:3 · LV JAM 4:3 · Read together JAM 4:3

PE2: RV PE2 2:13 · LV PE2 2:13 · Read together PE2 2:13

Sense 2: desire, passion, desire for pleasure

Semantic entry: 25.27

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Desire Strongly

Definition: desire for physical pleasure, often sexual

TIT 3:3: RV TIT 3:3 · LV TIT 3:3 · Read together TIT 3:3

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OET-RV TIT 3:3

3 We were also foolish and stubborn at one time, straying from the good and giving in to various lusts and pleasures, being mean and envious, even full of hate and hating one another.

OET-LV TIT 3:3

3 For/Because once we also were foolish, unpersuadable, being _strayed, serving in _lusts and various gratifications, going _by in malice and envy, hateful, hating one _another.

JAM 4:1: RV JAM 4:1 · LV JAM 4:1 · Read together JAM 4:1

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OET-RV JAM 4:1

4 Where do you imagine that the fights and quarrels among you all originate? Isn’t it because of the ambitions that surface inside you?

OET-LV JAM 4:1

4 From _where wars and from _where quarrels among you _all are?
Not is _it from _here from the gratifications of _you _all, which warring in the members of _you _all?