Matthew 12:46
While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
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Desiring
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2 Timothy 1:4
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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αἰτέω
aitéō · ahee-teh'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form71 total Strong's occurrences
to ask (in genitive case)
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask, beg, call for, crave, desire, require.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 20:20Strong's last: Acts 25:15
Open full G154 profile →ἐπιποθέω
epipothéō · ep-ee-poth-eh'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to dote upon, i.e. intensely crave possession (lawfully or wrongfully)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(earnestly) desire (greatly), (greatly) long (after), lust.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 5:2Strong's last: 2 Timothy 1:4
Open full G1971 profile →ζητέω
zētéō · dzay-teh'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form124 total Strong's occurrences
to seek (literally or figuratively); specially, (by Hebraism) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be (go) about, desire, endeavour, enquire (for), require, (X will) seek (after, for, means).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 12:46Strong's last: Matthew 12:47
Open full G2212 profile →θέλω
thélō · thel'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form217 total Strong's occurrences
to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas G1014 properly denotes rather a passive acquiescence in objective considerations), i.e. choose or prefer (literally or figuratively); by implication, to wish, i.e. be inclined to (sometimes adverbially, gladly); impersonally for the future tense, to be about to; by Hebraism, to delight in
Strong's KJV usage: :--desire, be disposed (forward), intend, list, love, mean, please, have rather, (be) will (have, -ling, - ling(-ly)).
Strong's first: Luke 8:20Strong's last: 1 Timothy 1:7
Open full G2309 profile →παρακαλέω
parakaléō · par-ak-al-eh'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form114 total Strong's occurrences
to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)
Strong's KJV usage: :--beseech, call for, (be of good) comfort, desire, (give) exhort(-ation), intreat, pray.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 9:38Strong's last: Acts 19:31
Open full G3870 profile →ἐπιθυμέω
epithyméō · ep-ee-thoo-meh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
to set the heart upon, i.e. long for (rightfully or otherwise)
Strong's KJV usage: :--covet, desire, would fain, lust (after).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 16:21Strong's last: Luke 16:21
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G2212
While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
G2212
Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
G154
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
G2309
And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.
G1937
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
G3870
And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
G3870
And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.
G154
About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.
G1971
For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
no direct Strong's tag
But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
G2309
Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
G1971
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
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desiring
DESIRING, participle present tense Wishing for; coveting; asking; expressing a wish; soliciting.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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