# G2237 ἡδονή

ἡδονή (hēdonḗ), Strong’s G2237: sensual delight; by implication, desire KJV: lust, pleasure. Occurs 20 times.

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*hēdonḗ* — sensual delight; by implication, desire

KJV: lust, pleasure

Occurs 20 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Luke 8:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/8?v=14) — What fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares…
- [Titus 3:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/titus/3?v=3) — For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy…
- [Jacob 4:1](https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/4?v=1) — Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
- [Jacob 4:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/4?v=3) — You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
- [2 Peter 2:13](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-peter/2?v=13) — receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 7:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/7?v=2) — 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…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 16:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/16?v=20) — Instead of these things, you gave your people angels’ food to eat, and you provided ready-to-eat bread for them from…
- [4 Maccabees 1:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/1?v=20) — Of the emotions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul.
- [4 Maccabees 1:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/1?v=21) — There are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain.
- [4 Maccabees 1:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/1?v=22) — Before pleasure is lust; and after pleasure, joy.