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
Intense longing
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ἐπιποθία G1974
Pronunciation epipothía
What does ἐπιποθία (epipothía) mean in the Bible?
ἐπιποθία (epipothía): Intense yearning or longing, often with spiritual or relational urgency rather than casual desire
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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 It longed 1× Romans 15:23
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First aligned row Romans 15:23
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Romans 1
Source forms
ἐπιποθίαν 1x epipothian Romans 15:23
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Romans 15:23
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Intense yearning or longing, often with spiritual or relational urgency rather than casual desire
Strong's G1974
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Romans 15:22-33 Source Gloss
intense longing
Extended definition Source: 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 corpus Greek 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 15:23 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
ἐπιποθίαν epipoqian
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 patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Accusative (1) Number pattern Singular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Rom 15:23 1×
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:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain