Bible Dictionary: Yearning

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yearn.

Greek

1974. epipothia -- longing
... Cognate: 1974 -- earnest (yearning) affection. See 1971 (). Word Origin from epipotheo
Definition longing NASB Word Usage longing (1). great desire. ...
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2442. himeiromai -- be affectionately desirous.
... be affectionately desirous. Middle voice from himeros (a yearning; of uncertain
affinity); to long for -- be affectionately desirous. ...
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1972. epipothesis -- longing
... Cognate: 1972 -- earnest (yearning) affection. See 1971 (). Word Origin from epipotheo
Definition longing NASB Word Usage longing (2). earnest desire. ...
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Library

Jesus is God, Following us Up.
... The great crowd in every part of the world is yearning after Him: piteously,
pathetically, most often speechlessly yearning, blindly groping along, with an ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks about jesus/jesus is god following us.htm

He Then Wonderfully Displays the Eternal Life, which is Christ, to ...
... overleaping all sensible and intellectual existence, cannot stop even at the generation
of the Son, but speeds beyond even this in its yearning for eternal life ...
/.../gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 2 he then wonderfully.htm

Brorson's Swan-Song
... His trials engendered in him, however, an intense yearning for release, especially
during his later years. ... O Holy Ghost, my spirit. With yearning longs to see. ...
/.../aaberg/hymns and hymnwriters of denmark/chapter ten brorsons swan-song.htm

Tent and Building
... We know that there is a house, because of the yearning, which is deepest and strongest
when we are nearest God, and likest what He would have us to be"the ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/tent and building.htm

Victory Found
... From that time there grew up in my heart a deep yearning to know Christ in a more
real way, for he seemed so unreal, so far away and visionary. ...
/.../goforth/how i know god answers prayer/x victory found.htm

Who's There?
... these peoples, as one comes into close enough touch to find their hearts, there
can be found underneath the inarticulate, inexpressible yearning for something ...
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Somebody's Knocking at the Door.
... It is a mute yearning of his heart for God, though often he doesn't think of it
that way. But it is there; for these two, man and God, belong together. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks with world winners/somebodys knocking at the door.htm

Of an Eternal Hunger for God
... desire its fulfilment. Behold, here there begins an eternal craving and
continual yearning in eternal insatiableness. All such are ...
/.../john/the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter liii of an eternal.htm

Showing How Christ Has Given Himself to all in Common in the ...
... We shall mark and behold how Christ inclines Himself towards us with loving affection,
with great desire, and with yearning delight, and with a warm and tender ...
/.../the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter xlvii showing how christ.htm

Of Sensible Love
... This yearning love, and this sensible fruition of the heart, none can have
save he who is inward of heart. Sensible love is a yearning ...
/.../john/the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter xi of sensible love.htm

Thesaurus

Yearning (3 Occurrences)
... n.) of Yearn. Multi-Version Concordance Yearning (3 Occurrences). ... the yearning of
your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me. (WEB JPS ASV RSV). ...
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Yearneth (2 Occurrences)

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Yearnings (1 Occurrence)

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Love (703 Occurrences)
... this moment too cold a word, as though his Lord were keeping him at a distance,
or at least not inviting him to draw near, as in the passionate yearning of his ...
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Gnosticism
... more complete on the hitherto rather neglected side of theoretical knowledge; it
was an attempt of the mind of the ancient world in its yearning after knowledge ...
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Wait (223 Occurrences)
... It describes an eager anticipation and yearning for the revelation of truth
and love as it is in the Father. Thus: "My soul, wait thou.... ...
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Wish (141 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To have a desire or yearning; to long;
to hanker. 2. (vt) To desire; to long for; to hanker after ...
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Fond (6 Occurrences)
... 5. (superl.) Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous;
longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on). ...
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Compassion (145 Occurrences)
... 111:4; 112:04:00; 145:8), is rendered by the American Standard Revised Version
"merciful." We have splagchnizomai, "to have the bowels yearning," in Matthew 9 ...
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Compassions (17 Occurrences)
... zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions
are restrained toward me. (ASV JPS). Lamentations 3:22 It ...
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Bible Concordance

Yearning (3 Occurrences)

1 Thessalonians 2:8 Thus, yearning over you, we had found our delight in having imparted to you not only the glad tidings of God, but our own lives also, because ye had become beloved of us.
(DBY)

Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
(WEB JPS ASV RSV)

Ezekiel 24:25 And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
(See JPS)

Subtopics

Yearning

Related Terms

Yearneth (2 Occurrences)

Yearnings (1 Occurrence)

Love (703 Occurrences)

Gnosticism

Wait (223 Occurrences)

Wish (141 Occurrences)

Fond (6 Occurrences)

Compassion (145 Occurrences)

Compassions (17 Occurrences)