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orexis (or'-ex-is) ▪ ὄρεξις ▪ G3715 ▪ Uses: 7

desire, longing (Noun, Feminine)

Romans 1:27. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Wisdom of Solomon 14:2. For this the desire of gain devised, and the workman built it by his skill.

Wisdom of Solomon 15:5. The sight whereof enticeth the fool to lust after it, and he loveth the lifeless figure of a dead image.

Wisdom of Solomon 16:2. Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:

Wisdom of Solomon 16:3. To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat.

Sirach 18:30. Go not after thy lusts, but turn away from thy own will.

Sirach 23:6. Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and foolish mind.

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