Definition

intense longing

Etymology

from G1971 (ἐπιποθέω);

Word family

• ἐπιποθέω epipothéō

How the KJV renders it

• great desire

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.