ἐπιθυμόω
make desirable
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐπιθυμόω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 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.
- Isaiah 58:2 ἐπιθυμόω They seek me day by day, and desire to know my ways, as a people that had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of their God: they now ask of me righteous judgment, and desire to draw near to God,
- Isaiah 58:2 ἐπιθυμόω They seek me day by day, and desire to know my ways, as a people that had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of their God: they now ask of me righteous judgment, and desire to draw near to God,
- Amos 5:18 ἐπιθυμόω Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.
- Micah 2:2 ἐπιθυμόω And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.
About this word
About this word
ἐπιθυμόω (epithymóō), “make desirable,” 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 4 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 →
