Quick Definition
I long for, love fervently
Strong's Definition
of uncertain affinity); to long for
Derivation: middle voice from (a yearning;
KJV Usage: be affectionately desirous
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἱμείρω: middle ἱμείρομαι; (ἵμερος desire, longing, (allied with ἵλεως; Vanicek, p. 88); cf. οἰκτείρω); to desire, long for, especially of the longing of love: ὑμῶν (Winer's Grammar, § 30, 10 b.), i. e. your souls, to win them to Christ, 1Th_2:8 Rec.; see ὁμείρομαι. (the Sept. Job_3:21; in Greek writings from Homer down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
not given
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἱμείρω ,
[in LXX : Job_3:21 B3R (AB ΰ , ὁμ -);]
1Th_2:8 ( Rec. ), see ὁμείρομαί .
† ὀμείρομαι
( Rec. ὁμ -, v. WH , App ., 151), = cl . ἱμείρομαι (but prob. with different derivation, v. Bl., § 6, 4; Zorell , s.v. ),
[in LXX : Job_3:21 ( H2442 ) * ;]
to desire earnestly, yearn after: 1Th_2:3 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἱμείρω (~ ἱμείρομαι ) [page 304]
For this verb which is read in the TR of 1Th_2:8 (but see Milligan ad l. ) we may cite Bacchylides i. 62 ἶσον ὅ τ᾽ ἀφνεὸς ἱμείρει μεγάλων ὅ τε μείων παυροτέρων , the rich man yearns for great things, as the poorer for less (Jebb).
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἱμείρω [in LXX: Job.3:21 B3R (ABא, ὁμ-) ;] 1Th.2:8 (Rec.), see: ὁμείρομαί.
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