9 occurrences in 12 translations

'Lust' in the Bible

Then you committed immorality with your neighbors, the Egyptians, with perverted lust, and by doing so you fornicated even more, provoking me to anger.

And you prostituted with the {Assyrians} on account of {your insatiable lust}, and you prostituted [with] them, and still you were not satisfied.

“How your heart was inflamed with lust”—the declaration of the Lord God—“when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,

This is what the Lord God says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness exposed by your acts of prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children that you gave to them,

Turn O sword and cut right or cut left, whichever way your thirst for blood and your edge direct you.

She didn’t give up her promiscuity that began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin nipples, and poured out their lust on her.

“Now her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was even more depraved in her lust than Oholah, and made her promiscuous acts worse than those of her sister.

Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. But after she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

For she lusted after her lovers [there], whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
αἰσχροκερδής 
Aischrokerdes 
Usage: 3

ἐπιθυμέω 
Epithumeo 
Usage: 10

ἐπιθυμία 
Epithumia 
Usage: 35

אוה 
'avah 
Usage: 26

אוּה 
'avvah 
Usage: 7

בּצע 
Betsa` 
Usage: 22

דּבלה 
D@belah 
cake of figs , lump
Usage: 5

הילל 
heylel 
Usage: 1

חמד 
Chamad 
Usage: 30

לבּי לוּבי 
Luwbiy 
Usage: 5

לוּד 
Luwd 
Usage: 5

לוּדיּי לוּדי 
Luwdiy 
Usage: 3

לוּז 
Luwz 
Luz
Usage: 8

לחות לוּחיתo 
Luwchiyth 
Usage: 2

מארב 
Ma'arab 
Usage: 5

מחבא מחבא 
Machabe' 
Usage: 2

צפן 
Tsaphan 
Usage: 32

שׁמן 
Shamen 
Usage: 11

שׁרירוּת 
Sh@riyruwth 
Usage: 10

תּאוה 
Ta'avah 
Usage: 20

αἰσχροκερδῶς 
Aischrokerdos 
Usage: 1

ἐπιθυμητής 
Epithumetes 
Usage: 1

ἐπιποθέω 
Epipotheo 
Usage: 9

ἡδονή 
hedone 
Usage: 4

κέρδος 
Kerdos 
Usage: 3

Λουκᾶς 
Loukas 
Usage: 3

Λούκιος 
Loukios 
Usage: 2

πάθος 
Pathos 
Usage: 3

σεληνιάζομαι 
Seleniazomai 
Usage: 2

φύραμα 
Phurama 
Usage: 5

χλιαρός 
Chliaros 
Usage: 0

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