KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: A wish, longing, request, pleasure, or thing wished for. Sense 2: To wish for, long for, request, or take pleasure in.
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First occurrence: Genesis 3:16
Complete exact-word concordance
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
For this cause wee also, since the day we heard it, doe not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisedome and spirituall vnderstanding:
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
But wee, brethren, beeing taken from you for a short time, in presence, not in heart, endeuored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
THIS is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
¶ This is a true saying: If a man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a good worke.
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
And wee desire, that euery one of you doe shewe the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope vnto the ende:
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
But now they desire a better countrey, that is, an heauenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to bee called their God: for he hath prepared for thē a city.
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Ye lust, and haue not: yee kill, and desire to haue, and cannot obtaine: yee fight and warre, yet yee haue not, because ye aske not.
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
Unto whome it was reuealed, that not vnto themselues, but vnto vs, they did minister the things which are now reported vnto you, by them that haue preached the Gospel vnto you, with the holy Ghost sent downe from heauen, which things the Angels desire to looke into.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
As new borne babes desire the sincere milke of the word, that ye may grow thereby,
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
And in those daies shal men seeke death, and shall not finde it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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