What does ἐπιποθία (epipothía) mean in the Bible?
ἐπιποθία (epipothía): Intense yearning or longing, often with spiritual or relational urgency rather than casual desire
Greek · G1974
ἐπιποθία
ἐπιποθία (epipothía): Intense yearning or longing, often with spiritual or relational urgency rather than casual desire
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ἐπιποθίαG1974
Pronunciationepipothía
What does ἐπιποθία (epipothía) mean in the Bible?
Full entry for ἐπιποθία (G1974) · Open the biblical lexicon
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How does the BSB render G1974?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include longed (1).
Where does ἐπιποθία (epipothía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 15:23. Its strongest book concentrations include Romans (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itlonged1×Romans 15:23
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A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowRomans 15:23
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Romans1
Source forms
ἐπιποθίαν1xepipothianRomans 15:23
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular1xRomans 15:23
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Intense yearning or longing, often with spiritual or relational urgency rather than casual desire
Strong'sG1974
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Study linkRomans 15:22-33Source Gloss
intense longing
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Intense yearning or longing, often with spiritual or relational urgency rather than casual desire
longing: Rom.15:23.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Romans 15:23Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
ἐπιποθίανepipoqian
longing, eager desire
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · FeminineRom 15:231×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Biblical Witnesses
Paul's intense yearning to visit the Roman church for many years
Word Origins
ἐπιποθία is built from this root: