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Koine Greek wordlink #2352

SR GNT Mat 5:28 ἐπιθυμῆσαι (epithumaʸsai) ‘at a woman in_order that to lust for her already committed_adultery’ Strongs=19370 Lemma=epithumeō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Sermon_on_the_Mount Refers to Word #2348

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Only use of identical word form ἐπιθυμῆσαι (V-NAA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπιθυμῆσαι’ (V-NAA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to lust’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘epithumeō’ have 15 different glosses: ‘are desiring’, ‘is desiring’, ‘to lust’, ‘I coveted’, ‘I desired’, ‘he is desiring’, ‘he was desiring’, ‘they will_be desiring’, ‘they desired’, ‘we are desiring’, ‘you will_be coveting’, ‘you_all are desiring’, ‘you_all will_be desiring’, ‘desired’, ‘desiring’.

Greek words (3) other than ἐπιθυμῆσαι (V-NAA····) with a gloss related to ‘lust’

1 TH 4:5 ἐπιθυμίας (epithumias) N-GFS Lemma=epithumia ‘not in the passion of lust just_as also the’ SR GNT 1 Th 4:5 word 4

OET-LV: 5 not in the_passion of _lust, just _as also the pagans which not having _known the god, (TH1_4:5)

OET-RV: 5 Don’t fill them with lustful passions like those who don’t know God, (TH1 4:5)

YAC 1:14 ἐπιθυμίας (epithumias) N-GFS Lemma=epithumia ‘by his own lust being drawn_away and being enticed’ SR GNT Yac 1:14 word 7

OET-LV: 14 But each is _being _tempted by his own lust, being _drawn _away and being _enticed. (JAM_1:14)

OET-RV: 14 but rather they’re being tempted by their own lusts. They’re being drawn away and enticed into what they know is wrong, (JAM 1:14)

2 PET 1:4 ἐπιθυμίᾳ (epithumia) N-DFS Lemma=epithumia ‘the the world by lust corruption’ SR GNT 2 Pet 1:4 word 30

OET-LV: 4 through which has _granted his precious and greatest promises to _us, in _order _that through these things you _all _may _become partners of_the_divine nature, having _escaped _from from _the corruption in the the_world by lust. (PE2_1:4)

OET-RV: 4 Through these things, he has given us precious and very great promises that you will become participants of the divine nature after escaping the corruption in the world of lust. (PE2 1:4)

Key: N=noun V=verb DFS=dative,feminine,singular GFS=genitive,feminine,singular