Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on
Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation
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Eulogy
Alfred Lord Tennyson
... of all.’ So hold I commerce with the dead; Or so methinks the dead would say; Or so shall grief with symbols play And pining life be fancy-fed. Now looking to some settled end, That these things pass, and I shall prove A meeting somewhere, love with love, I crave your pardon, O my friend; If not so fresh, with love as true, I, clasping brother-hands, aver I could not, if I would, transfer The whole I felt for him to you. For which be they that hold apart The promise of the golden hours? First love, first ...
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... ultimate sense of right and wrong. For many people there are no moral absolutes, no divine commandments to be obeyed, no universal, timeless principles to which they feel obligated. Many people are governed by whatever gives them pleasure or satisfies their lust, ambition, or craving for power and notoriety. "Do your own thing so long as it doesn't hurt anybody" is the popular slogan. If it gives you pleasure or makes you happy, it's okay. The late Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship and recipient of ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... innocent. In a society where we feel oppressed or powerless, in a system where we feel inconsequential and exploited, in a culture that seems controlled by alien forces, we react like the demoniac in violence or distorted sexuality. In an effort to touch someone, in a craving to know and to be known, in an effort to be something more than a social security number on an IRS form, in our struggle to be more than middle- or upper-middle class serfs to a government despicably wasteful; in such an effort, is it ...
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... regularly in these letters (6:3; 2 Tim. 1:13; 4:3; Titus 1:9, 13; 2:2, 8). It is a medical metaphor referring to the “healthiness” of teaching “found in the gospel” (v. 11) and stands in opposition to the “sickly craving” (6:4; NIV, “unhealthy interest”) of the errorists, whose “teaching will spread like gangrene” (2 Tim. 2:17). Such a metaphor is not found earlier in Paul. Its source, especially as a polemic device, is most likely contemporary itinerant philosophers, who would have ...
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Norman Hillyer
... —he is likely to defeat the best efforts of his would-be rescuer, who in the end may even have to disable him before getting him to safety. Trust in divine deliverance will be rewarded in due time, not necessarily with the immediacy that one often craves in distress, but at the divinely right moment, as God sees the whole situation. Certainly at the end of days (1:5; 2:12), the believer’s trust will be justified and the persecutor’s stance exposed as one of opposition to almighty God himself. 5 ...
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Norman Hillyer
... for some good, as with Jesus wanting to share the Last Supper (Luke 22:15) and in Paul’s desiring to depart this life to be with Christ (Phil. 1:23) or to see the Thessalonians again (1 Thess. 2:17). But usually epithymia means an unsavory craving for evil. 19 These are the men translates the contemptuous single Greek word houtoi once more, as in v. 16. The Greek verb apodiorizein, divide, occurs in the NT only here and rarely elsewhere. It is used by Aristotle (Politics 4.3.9) to mean “to define ...
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Timothy S. Laniak
... must not overstep the boundaries of the legal system. Persians were known for making decisions while drinking but confirming them while sober. As the biblical sage warns, “It is not for kings, O Lemuel—not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer, lest they drink and forget what the law decrees, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights” (Prov. 31:4, 5). 1:13–22 Whatever prompted Vashti’s refusal (and there are many ancient and modern speculations), she certainly had not obeyed ...
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Timothy S. Laniak
... uses the same root (gdl) in 10:2 to refer to Mordecai’s promotion: Mordecai’s gedolah is a status to which the king had raised him (giddelo). This is precisely the terminology employed to describe Haman’s promotion in 3:1 and 5:11. The Agagite, who had craved the king’s honor so transparently, is now replaced by the Jew, who is known not for self-seeking but for service to the king and his fellow Jews. The final verse of the chapter brings the book of Esther to a close with a eulogy about Mordecai ...
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Roland E. Murphy
... is cut out. The sense of verse 32a is that the righteous know what to say and how to say it so as to gain assent (so Meinhold, Sprüche; cf. the NAB). Additional Notes 10:3 The NIV would show the Hb. chiasm if it rendered v. 3b: “the craving of the wicked he thwarts.” 10:4 The NIV presupposes a revocalization: rēʾš ʿōśâ. 10:10 The repetition of v. 8b in v. 10b is suspicious. The LXX rendering presupposes the following Hb. text: ûmôkîaḥ ʿal pānîm yašlîm, “But he who rebukes openly (lit ...
311. Proverbs of Solomon
Proverbs 13:1-25
Understanding Series
Roland E. Murphy
... From the fruit of his mouth a man eats good (things),” that is, there is profit from his words. This presumes that the speech of a (good) person will be rewarded. The parallelism with verse 2b, where the soul (or “life,” “desire,” or craving) of the deceivers is violence, is quite obscure. There seems to be a contrast between the fruitless greed of the unfaithful and the one who uses speech effectively and profitably. The text is uncertain; see Additional Notes. 13:3 Antithetic and juxtapositional ...
312. Proverbs of Solomon
Proverbs 21:1-31
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Roland E. Murphy
... the phrase occurs also in the Ugaritic texts, the meaning is obscure (common house?). 21:26 Verse 26a is lit. “the whole day he (or, one) desires a desire”—a cognate accusative construction. One should not be misled by the catchword in v. 25 (crave). Emendation of the text on the basis of the Gk., which introduces asebēs, “evil one,” as the subject of v. 26a, is not helpful. 21:28 The LXX reflects the MT except for Hb. lāneṣaḥ, “forever” (Gk. phulassomenos, “keeping guard”). This ...
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Roland E. Murphy
... an uncertain translation of the MT, which is normally “ways” (so NRSV), but it fits the parallelism. Hb. lam e ḥôt seems to be revocalized in the NIV to yield “(female) destroyers of kings” (Hb. l e mīḥôt). 31:4 To crave of the NIV interprets ʾw (Kethib; the Qere is ʾy, “where”) as derived from Hb. ʾwh, “to desire.” 31:8 Destitute is an uncertain translation of “vanishing?"—the form is the infinitive construct of Hb. ḥlp (“change,” “disappear”). Many other solutions ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... field together, so that the branches are left barren and white. And the drunkards in the populace will be the most acutely aware of the deprivation, for they can no longer have “new wine”—that first juice from the wine-press which satisfies their desperate craving for drink even before all of the grapes have been processed. 1:8–10 The second gift that God has withdrawn from the people of Israel is the means of communion in worship with himself; God has taken away the grain and wine necessary for ...
315. Thanks for Their Gifts
Philippians 4:10-20
Understanding Series
F. F. Bruce
... had schooled himself to do so. I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances, he says, supplying the words that John Bunyan expanded in the shepherd boy’s song: I am content with that I have, Little be it or much, And, Lord, contentment still I crave, Because thou savest such. Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage: Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age. “Be content with what you have” (Heb. 13:5) seems to have been a general precept in the early church. This ...
316. Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
Genesis 19:30-38, Genesis 19:1-29
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John E. Hartley
... Yahweh’s mercy toward Abraham. Outside the city, one of the messengers ordered Lot to flee, not to look back, nor even to stop anywhere in the plain. To escape unharmed they had to stay focused on their destination. 19:18–22 Lot objected. His craving for the life of the city again asserted itself. Expressing his gratitude for the favor and the kindness they had shown in sparing his life, he asked for a concession. Pointing out that he could not reach the mountains before the disaster overtook him, he ...
317. The Messiah and His Glory
Luke 9:28-36, Luke 9:18-27
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R.T. France
... people in her life, claiming to love them, but using them for the sake of her own needs. The gods pursue her relentlessly. Finally, having lost many of those around her and unable any longer to fill the God-shaped vacuum, she begins to submit. She says, “But when the craving went, nearly all that I called myself went with it. It is as if my whole soul had been one tooth and now that tooth was drawn. I was a gap.” And at the end, when Orual is about to die, she writes in the second book of her recorded ...
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J. Scott Duvall
... from 10–30 percent of the empire’s population. Such “slave wealth” was generated and sustained at the expense of human beings created in the image of God. But now that God has destroyed the great city, people observe that Babylon’s desires and cravings will never be satisfied again; they are gone forever (cf. 18:11, 21–23). 18:15–17a  The merchants . . . will stand far off, terrified at her torment. They will weep and mourn and cry out. Following the list of goods and services, the funeral ...
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J. Scott Duvall
... one final attack, only to state (in the passive voice) that “the devil . . . was thrown into the lake of fire” where he will be “tormented day and night forever and ever” (20:10). While we don’t have all the eschatological answers that our curiosity craves, we do know beyond all doubt that God is in control! Illustrating the Text Deception is a real danger. News: It was one more tragedy for the Kennedy family. When John F. Kennedy Jr. took off from Essex County Airport with his wife, Carolyn, and ...
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J. Scott Duvall
... come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am” (John 14:3). These are the words of a bridegroom to his bride. God has planned a beautiful, glorious future for us because he loves us and wants to be with us. People crave a mental and emotional vision of what God has in store to sustain them through difficult times, and it needs to be a vision rooted in God’s faithful and perfect love. We can only begin to understand the depth of God’s love for us (and the future he ...
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Joe M. Sprinkle
... 1) at the Red Sea (Exod. 14:11–12), (2) at Marah (Exod. 15:23), (3) at the wilderness of Sin (Exod. 16:2), (4) at Rephidim (Exod. 17:1), (5) at Horeb with the golden calf (Exod. 32), (6) at Taberah (Num. 11:1), (7) at the “graves of craving” (Num. 11:4), (8) at Kadesh (Num. 14), and twice of some individuals at the giving of manna (9) who save it overnight (Exod. 16:20) and (10) who look for it on the Sabbath (Exod. 16:27).2 14:25 Amalekites . . . Canaanites. These are the first enemies that Israel ...
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Joe M. Sprinkle
... 1) at the Red Sea (Exod. 14:11–12), (2) at Marah (Exod. 15:23), (3) at the wilderness of Sin (Exod. 16:2), (4) at Rephidim (Exod. 17:1), (5) at Horeb with the golden calf (Exod. 32), (6) at Taberah (Num. 11:1), (7) at the “graves of craving” (Num. 11:4), (8) at Kadesh (Num. 14), and twice of some individuals at the giving of manna (9) who save it overnight (Exod. 16:20) and (10) who look for it on the Sabbath (Exod. 16:27).2 14:25 Amalekites . . . Canaanites. These are the first enemies that Israel ...
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Joe M. Sprinkle
... at v. 14 on Rephidim, v. 17 on Hazeroth). Even if the southern route turns out to be the correct one, it does not clinch Jebal Musa as Mount Sinai, though it is the most likely candidate.16 33:16 Kibroth Hattaavah. This means literally “graves of craving.” This place was in the Desert of Paran (Num. 10:12), where God punishes Israel because of its complaints about manna and the lack of meat (Num. 11:34). 33:17 Hazeroth. This is where Miriam and Aaron question Moses’s marriage to a Cushite woman ...
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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.
... purposelessness, jealousy, and love (Luke 15:11–32); Hosea and Gomer, a tale of degradation and restoration. As Jean Fleming puts it in a book called The Homesick Heart, Neither Gomer nor the prodigal son could see how good they had it at home. It was some craving within that drove them wantonly on. This is the human condition. . . . The high point of these stories . . . is that just when I expect God to lob in hand grenades, he runs to His son, falls on his neck with kisses, and kills the fatted calf for ...
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Daniel J. Estes
... God for nothing? When Yahweh points out Job’s exemplary life, the adversary suggests that Job may be using Yahweh to get the material blessings he wants. Unstated, but perhaps hinted implicitly, is that Yahweh may be using Job to get the worship he craves from humans. If this is the case, then the adversary is making an accusation concerning the motivation that prompts Job’s apparently exemplary piety. 1:10–11 Have you not put a hedge around him? The Bible often speaks about how God is the protector ...
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