1) to long for, desire
2) to pursue with love, to long after
3) to lust, harbour forbidden desire
Part of Speech: verb
G1971
From G1909 and ποθέω potheô (to yearn); to dote upon, that is, intensely crave possession (lawfully or wrongfully): - (earnestly) desire (greatly), (greatly) long (after), lust.
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| a deeply desire | 25.18 |
| b have great affection for | 25.47 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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