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“deserted,” desolate, deprived of the friends and kindred, e.g. of a woman deserted by a
husband, Gal 4:21; (b) so of a city, as Jerusalem, Matt. 23:38; or uninhabited places,
“desert,” e.g., Matt. 14:13, 15; Acts 8:26; in Mark 1:35,
RV
, “desert,” for
KJV
, solitary.
See
DESOLATE
,
WILDERNESS
.
DESIRE (Noun and Verb), DESIROUS
A. Nouns.
1.
$
(
#
&
, 1939), “a desire, craving, longing, mostly of evil desires,”
frequently translated “lust,” is used in the following, of good “desires”: of the Lord’s
“wish” concerning the last Passover, Luke 22:15, of Paul’s “desire” to be with Christ,
Phil. 1:23; of his “desire” to see the saints at Thessalonica again, 1 Thess. 2:17.
With regard to evil “desires,” in Col. 3:5 the
RV
has “desire,” for the
KJV
,
“concupiscence”; in 1 Thess. 4:5,
RV
, “lust,” for
KJV
, “concupiscence”; there the
preceding word
is translated “passion,”
RV
, for
KJV
, “lust” (see AFFECTION);
also in Col. 3:5
and
$
are associated,
RV
, “passion,” for
KJV
, “inordinate
affection.”
,
$
is combined with
, in Gal. 5:24; for the
KJV
, “affections
and lusts,” the
RV
has “passions, and the lusts thereof.”
,
$
is the more
comprehensive term, including all manner of “lusts and desires”;
denotes
suffering; in the passage in Gal. (l.c.) the sufferings are those produced by yielding to the
flesh;
points more to the evil state from which “lusts” spring. Cf
@
, “lust,”
Rom. 1:27. See
CONCUPISCENCE
,
LUST
, and Trench,
- !
Sec.lxxxvii.
2.
$
(
'
&
, 2107), lit., “good pleasure” (
$
, “well,”
, “to seem”),
implies a gracious purpose, a good object being in view, with the idea of a resolve,
showing the willingness with which the resolve is made. It is often translated “good
pleasure,” e.g., Eph. 1:5, 9; Phil. 2:13; in Phil. 1:15, “good will”; in Rom. 10:1, “desire,”
(marg., “good pleasure”); in 2 Thess. 1:11,
RV
, “desire,”
KJV
and
RV
, marg., “good
pleasure.”
It is used of God in Matt. 11:26 (“well pleasing,”
RV
, for
KJV
, “seemed good”); Luke
2:14,
RV
, “men in whom He is well pleased,” lit., “men of good pleasure” (the
construction is objective); 10:21; Eph. 1:5, 9; Phil. 2:13. See
PLEASURE
,
SEEM
,
WILL
.¶
3.
(
#
, 1972), “an earnest desire, a longing for” ( , “upon,”
intensive,
, “to desire”), is found in 2 Cor. 7:7, 11,
KJV
, “earnest desire,” and
“vehement desire”;
RV
, “longing” in both places. See
LONGING
.¶
4.
(
#
&
, 1974), with the same meaning as No. 3, is used in Rom.
15:23,
RV
, “longing,”
KJV
, “great desire.”¶ Cf.
, Phil. 4:1, “longed for”¶, and
, “to long for” [see B, Note (4)]. See
LONGING
.
5.
(
!
, 2307) denotes “a will, that which is willed” (akin to B, No. 6). It
is rendered “desires,” in Eph. 2:3. See
PLEASURE
,
WILL
.
Note:
In 1 Pet. 4:3,
RV
,
$
is rendered “desire.” See
WILL
.
B. Verbs.