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ἐπιπόθητος

epipóthētos · G1973 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. yearningly affectionate, longed for, very dear

    Pertaining to yearning affection for someone

    Examples

    Philippians 4:1 Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, whom I long to see, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Yearningly affectionate, longed for, very dear25.48
Paul addresses the Philippians in Philippians 4:1 as “my beloved brothers and sisters, whom I long to see, my joy and crown,” ἐπιπόθητος describing them as dearly longed-for and deeply cherished by him.
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἐπιποθέω epipothéō · G1971 · to long for, to deeply desire, deep desire · 9×ἐπιπόθησις epipóthēsis · G1972 · longing for, deep desire · 2×ἐπιπόθητοςepipóthētos · G1973ἐπιποθία epipothía · G1974 · to long for, to deeply desire, deep desire · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐπιποθητον, longed for: Phm 4:1. ((Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 65, 1 [ET]; the Epistle of…
ἐπιποθητον, longed for: Phm 4:1. ((Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 65, 1 [ET]; the Epistle of Barnabas 1, 3 [ET]); Appendix Hisp. 43; Eustathius; (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 34, 3).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Love, Affection, Compassion1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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