G3715 – orexis – ὄρεξις – lust
- Strong’s ID:
- G3715
- Greek Word:
- ὄρεξις
- Transliteration:
- orexis
- Pronunciation:
- or’-ex-is
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Usage Count:
- 1
- Search:
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G3713; excitement of the mind, i.e. longing after:—lust.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) desire, longing, craving for
2) eager desire, lust, appetite
2a) 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
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.