# G1939 ἐπιθυμία

ἐπιθυμία (epithymía), Strong’s G1939: a longing (especially for what is forbidden) KJV: concupiscence, desire, lust (after). Occurs 111 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/G1939 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*epithymía* — a longing (especially for what is forbidden)

KJV: concupiscence, desire, lust (after)

Derived from [ἐπιθυμέω epithyméō](https://besorah.bible/word/G1937) (to set the heart upon, i.e. long f)

Occurs 111 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Mark 4:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/4?v=19) — and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word…
- [Luke 22:15](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/22?v=15) — He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,
- [John 8:44](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/8?v=44) — You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning…
- [Romans 1:24](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/1?v=24) — Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored…
- [Romans 6:12](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/6?v=12) — Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
- [Romans 7:7](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/7?v=7) — What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For…
- [Romans 7:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/7?v=8) — But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is…
- [Romans 13:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/13?v=14) — But put on the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
- [Galatians 5:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/galatians/5?v=16) — But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
- [Galatians 5:24](https://besorah.bible/besorah/galatians/5?v=24) — Those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.