So strong sexual desire is not lust in your opinion?
Lust is not coveting?
Who is being ridiculous?
Neither you nor istcenturylady understood lust broke the tenth commandment. And for some reason, you have taken great offence at having it pointed out to you it does
Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Looking at a woman that is beautiful is not lust but desiring her, undressing her, wanting to sleep with her is lust just like David did with Bathsheba.
Strong's Concordance
epithumeó: desire, lust after
Original Word: ἐπιθυμέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: epithumeó
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-thoo-meh'-o)
Definition: desire, lust after
Usage: I long for, covet, lust after, set the heart upon.
HELPS Word-studies
1937 epithyméō (from
1909 /epí, "focused
on" intensifying
2372 /thymós, "passionate desire") – properly, to show
focused passion as it aptly builds on (Gk
epi, "upon") what a person truly yearns for; to "
greatly desire to do or have something – 'to
long for, to
desire very much' " (
L & N, 1, 25.12).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from
epi and
thumos
Definition
desire, lust after
NASB Translation
covet (2), coveted (1), craved (1), desire (1), desired (2), desires (1), gladly (1), long (3), longing (1), lust (2), sets its desire (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1937: ἐπιθυμέω
ἐπιθυμέω, ἐπιθύμω; (imperfect ἐπεθύμουν); future ἐπιθυμήσω; 1 aorist ἐπεθύμησα; (θυμός); from Aeschylus down; the Sept. for אִוָּה and חָמַד; properly, "to keep the θυμός turned upon a thing, hence (cf. our to set one's heart upon) to have a desire for, long for; absolutely, to desire (A. V. lust"),
James 4:2; to lust after, covet, of those who seek things forbidden,
Romans 7:7;
Romans 13:9 (from
Exodus 20:17);
1 Corinthians 10:6 (4 Macc. 2:6); κατά τίνος, to have desires opposed to (A. V. lust against) a thing (
Galatians 5:17 (Buttmann, 335 (288)); τίνος, to long for, covet a thing,
Acts 20:33;
1 Timothy 3:1; of sexual desire, γυναικός,
Matthew 5:28 Rec. (see below) (παιδός ἤ γυναικός, Xenophon, an. 4, 1, 14; with the genitive also in
Exodus 34:24;
Proverbs 21:26;
Proverbs 23:3, 6; Wis. 6:12; Sir. 24:19 (18), etc.); contrary to the usage of the better Greek writings with the accusative of the object,
Matthew 5:28 L Tr (WH brackets), and without an object Tdf. (
Exodus 20:17;
Deuteronomy 5:21;
Micah 2:2; Wis. 16:3; Sir. 1:26 (23), etc.; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 10 b.); as often in Greek writings, followed by the infinitive:
Matthew 13:17;
Luke 15:16; (
Luke 16:21); ;
1 Peter 1:12;
Revelation 9:6; followed by the accusative with the infinitive
Hebrews 6:11; ἐπιθυμία ἐπεθύμησα I have greatly desired,
Luke 22:15; cf. Winers Grammar, § 54, 3; Buttmann