{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G2237",
  "lemma": "ἡδονή",
  "transliteration": "hēdonḗ",
  "definition": "sensual delight; by implication, desire",
  "kjv": "lust, pleasure",
  "occurrences": 20,
  "language": "Greek",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Luke 8:14",
      "text": "What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/8?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Titus 3:3",
      "text": "For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/titus/3?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jacob 4:1",
      "text": "Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/4?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jacob 4:3",
      "text": "You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/4?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Peter 2:13",
      "text": "receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-peter/2?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Wisdom of Solomon 7:2",
      "text": "I molded into flesh in the time of ten months in my mother’s womb, being compacted in blood from the seed of man and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/7?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Wisdom of Solomon 16:20",
      "text": "Instead of these things, you gave your people angels’ food to eat, and you provided ready-to-eat bread for them from…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/16?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "4 Maccabees 1:20",
      "text": "Of the emotions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/1?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "4 Maccabees 1:21",
      "text": "There are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/1?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "4 Maccabees 1:22",
      "text": "Before pleasure is lust; and after pleasure, joy.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/1?v=22"
    }
  ],
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