ὄρεξις

Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - ὄρεξις

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G3715

Transliteration: órexis

Pronunciation: or'-ex-is

Definition: lust

- Original: ὄρεξις

- Transliteration: Orexis

- Phonetic: or'-ex-is

- Definition:

1. desire, longing, craving for

2. eager desire, lust, appetite

a. used both in a good and a bad sense, as well of natural and lawful and even of proper cravings (of appetite for food), also of corrupt and unlawful desires

- Origin: from G3713" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3713

- TDNT entry: 12:27,7

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: From G3713" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3713; excitement of the mind that is longing after: - lust.

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