STRONGS NUMBER G1971

Original Word: ἐπιποθέω
Transliteration: epipotheō
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-poth-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to long for
Meaning: to long forearnestly desire, greatly long after

From epi and potheo (to yearn); to dote upon, i.e. Intensely crave possession (lawfully or wrongfully) -- (earnestly) desire (greatly), (greatly) long (after), lust.

see GREEK epi

STRONGS NT 1971: ἐπιποθέω

ἐπιποθέω, ἐπιποθῶ; 1 aorist ἐπεπόθησα; properly, ποθον ἔχω ἐπί τί (i. e. ἐπί is directive, not intensive; cf. ἐπί, D. 2) (cf. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. i., p. 30f); to long for, desire: followed by the infinitive 2 Corinthians 5:2; ἰδεῖν τινα, Romans 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 3:6; 2 Timothy 1:4; Philippians 2:26 L brackets WH text brackets; τί, 1 Peter 2:2 (ἐπί τί, Psalm 41:2 ()); τινα to be possessed with a desire for, long for (Winer's Grammar, § 30, 10 b.), Philippians 2:26 R G T Tr WH marginal reading; to pursue with love, to tong after: 2 Corinthians 9:14; Philippians 1:8 (τάς ἐντολάς Θεοῦ, Psalm 118:131 ()); absolutely to lust (i. e. harbor forbidden desire): James 4:5, on which passage see φθόνος. (Herodotus, Plato, Diodorus, Plutarch, Lucian.)