# lust

## Related Ideas:

crave, desire, lustful, lusting, passion, sensual, sensuality


## Definition:

Lust is a very strong desire, usually for something sinful or immoral. To lust is to have lust.

* In the Bible, "lust" usually referred to sexual desire for someone other than one's own spouse.
* Sometimes this term was used in a figurative sense to refer to worshiping idols.
* Depending on the context, "lust" could be translated as "wrong desire" or "strong desire" or "wrongful sexual desire" or "strong immoral desire" or to "strongly desire to sin."
* The phrase to "lust after" could be translated as to "wrongly desire" or to "think immorally about" or to "immorally desire."
* To "crave" is to desire strongly.
* "Sensuality" is the desire to satisfy sensual desires, to experience sensual pleasures, particularly sexual pleasure.

 (See also: [adultery](../kt/adultery.md), [false god](../kt/falsegod.md))

## Bible References:

* [1 John 02:16](rc://en/tn/help/1jn/02/16)
* [2 Timothy 02:22](rc://en/tn/help/2ti/02/22)
* [Galatians 05:16](rc://en/tn/help/gal/05/16)
* [Galatians 05:19-21](rc://en/tn/help/gal/05/19)
* [Genesis 39:7-9](rc://en/tn/help/gen/39/07)
* [Matthew 05:28](rc://en/tn/help/mat/05/28)

## Word Data:

* Strong's: H183, H185, H1730, H2181, H2183, H2530, H2532, H2656, H5178, H5315, H5375, H5689, H5691, H5869, H7843, G766, G1014, G1937, G1939, G3713, G3715, G3806

## Forms Found in the English ULB:

crave, craves, desirable, desire, desired, desires, lust, lusted, lustful, lusting, lusts, passion, sensual, sensuality


