# G3715 ὄρεξις

ὄρεξις (órexis), Strong’s G3715: excitement of the mind, i.e. longing after KJV: lust. Occurs 8 times.

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*órexis* — excitement of the mind, i.e. longing after

KJV: lust

Derived from [ὀρέγομαι orégomai](https://besorah.bible/word/G3713) (to stretch oneself, i.e. reach out after)

Occurs 8 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Romans 1:27](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/1?v=27) — Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 14:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/14?v=2) — For the hunger for profit planned it, and wisdom was the craftsman who built it.
- [Wisdom of Solomon 16:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/16?v=2) — Instead of this punishment, you, giving benefits to your people, prepared quails for food, a delicacy to satisfy the…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 16:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/16?v=3) — to the end that your enemies, desiring food, might for the hideousness of the creatures sent among them, loathe even…
- [Sirach 18:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/18?v=29) — 
- [Sirach 23:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/23?v=6) — 
- [4 Maccabees 1:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/1?v=33) — Otherwise, how is it that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would come from them?…
- [4 Maccabees 1:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/1?v=35) — For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the…