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Koine Greek wordlink #108071

SR GNT Rom 7:7 ἐπιθυμίαν (epithumian) ‘the and for covetousness not I had known except’ Strongs=19390 Lemma=epithumia
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=60 AD

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Other uses (4) of identical word form ἐπιθυμίαν (N-AFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπιθυμίαν’ (N-AFS) has 3 different glosses: ‘the desire’, ‘covetousness’, ‘desire’.

Rom 7:8 ‘in me all covetousness apart_from for the law’ SR GNT Rom 7:8 word 13

OET-LV: 8 But opportunity having _taken the sin by the command, produced in me all covetousness, because/for apart _from the_law, sin dead. (ROM_7:8)

OET-RV: 8 But sin took the opportunity from that command to produce covetousness in me, because sin would be dead apart from the Law. (ROM 7:8)

Gal 5:16 ‘by the spirit be walking and the desire of the flesh by_no_means not’ SR GNT Gal 5:16 word 7

OET-LV: 16 But I _am _saying, be _walking by_the_spirit, and by _no _means may_ not _accomplish the_desire of_the_flesh. (GAL_5:16)

OET-RV: 16 I’ll tell you: allow yourselves to be led by the spirit, and then your earthly desires won’t triumph, (GAL 5:16)

Php 1:23 ‘the two the desire having in_order that’ SR GNT Php 1:23 word 8

OET-LV: 23 I _am _being _pressed and by the two, the desire having in _order that to _depart and with chosen _one /messiah to _be, because/for by _much more better, (PHP_1:23)

OET-RV: 23 I feel squeezed between the two: the desire to depart from here and be with Messiah which would be much better, (PHP 1:23)

Col 3:5 ‘sexual_immorality impurity passion desire evil and greediness’ SR GNT Col 3:5 word 13

OET-LV: 5 Therefore make _dead your members which are on the earth: sexual _immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greediness, which is idolatry, (COL_3:5)

OET-RV: 5 So put your earthly natures to death: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desires, and greediness which is idolatry, (COL 3:5)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘epithumia’ have 12 different glosses: ‘the desire’, ‘the lusts’, ‘by lusts’, ‘in lusts’, ‘of lust’, ‘to lusts’, ‘with desire’, ‘covetousness’, ‘desire’, ‘desires’, ‘lust’, ‘lusts’.

Key: N=noun AFS=accusative,feminine,singular