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Koine Greek wordlink #2382

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
Refers to Word #2378

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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’

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

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

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

Key: N=noun V=verb DFS=dative,feminine,singular GFS=genitive,feminine,singular NAA....=infinitive,aorist,active