ἐπιθύμημα
desire, desirable thing
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐπιθύμημα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 14 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 16:15 ἐπιθύμημα And Moses was exceeding indignant, and said to the Lord, Do you take no heed to their sacrifice: I have not taken away the desire of any one of them, neither have I hurt any one of them.
- 1 Kings 21:6 ἐπιθύμημα For at this time to-morrow I will send my servants to you, and they shall search your house, and the houses of your servants, and it shall be that all the desirable objects of their eyes on which they shall lay their hands, they shall even take them.
- Isaiah 27:2 ἐπιθύμημα In that day there shall be a fair vineyard, and a desire to commence a song concerning it.
- Isaiah 32:12 ἐπιθύμημα and beat your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and the fruit of the vine.
- Lamentations 1:7 ἐπιθύμημα ZAIN. Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and her rejection; she thought on all her desirable things which were from the days of old, when her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, and there was none to help her: when her enemies saw it they laughed at her habitation.
- Lamentations 1:10 ἐπιθύμημα JOD. The oppressor has stretched out his hand on all her desirable things: for she has seen the Gentiles entering into her sanctuary, concerning whom you did command that they should not enter into your congregation.
- Lamentations 1:11 ἐπιθύμημα CHAPH. All her people groan, seeking bread: they have given their desirable things for meat, to restore their soul: behold, Lord, and look; for she is become dishonored.
- Lamentations 2:4 ἐπιθύμημα DALETH. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as fire.
- Ezekiel 24:16 ἐπιθύμημα Son of man, behold I take from you the desire of your eyes by violence: you shall not lament, neither shall you weep.
- Ezekiel 24:21 ἐπιθύμημα Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom you⌃ have left, shall fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 24:25 ἐπιθύμημα And you, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take their strength from them, the pride of their boasting, the desires of their eyes, and the pride of their soul, their sons and their daughters,
- Daniel 11:8 ἐπιθύμημα Yes, he shall carry with a body of captives into Egypt their gods with their molten images, and all their precious vessels of silver and gold; and he shall last longer than the king of the north.
- Daniel 11:38 ἐπιθύμημα And he shall honor the god of forces on his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not he shall honor with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and desirable things.
- Hosea 9:16 ἐπιθύμημα Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in no wise any more bear fruit: therefore even if they should beget children, I will kill the desired fruit of their womb.
About this word
About this word
ἐπιθύμημα (epithýmēma), “desire, desirable thing,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 14 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →