the OT does not know a concrete word for it. But the rules on lustful offenses are found in the Law of holiness, Lv 18 and 20, 10-17.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
Inordinate appetite for carnal delights: (Rom 13:13). It is the third “deadly sin”, after pride and greed.
Christian Bible Dictionary
Dr. J. Dominguez
http://bible.com/dictionary/
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
The Hebrew term zimma is sometimes used, especially in the book of Ezekiel, to point to an evil that includes the idea of voluntary artifice, a plan to gloat over sin. From the context, the reference is understood to be to sexual sin (“And she fell in love with her ruffians, whose l. is like the carnal ardor of donkeys, and whose flow is like the flow of horses† ; “…and the uncleanness of your fornications, and your l. and your whoredom† ).
At Rom 13:13 we read: “Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in gluttony and drunkenness, not in l. and lewdness, not in strife and envy† . While the †¢concupiscence is the exaggerated and sinful desire, the l. it is the practice in the facts of those desires in the sexual field.
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
Capital vice, which leads to sin when its proposals are carried out with consent in acts or intentions. It consists of allowing oneself to be carried away by the reproductive tendency outside the spheres of divine law. Therefore, it is the abuse of the instincts and the performance of activities that are outside of God’s plan.
Then selfish delights are sought that distance one from God, since they orient the person towards sensible pleasure and not towards the order of nature or the divine will. This is not lawful, just as eating disorderly is bad if it breaks God’s plan.
Lust supposes a moral disorder, in two dimensions: insofar as it breaks the natural virtue of chastity and continence; and insofar as it opposes what God has communicated and is in the Scripture and the Church teaches according to that divine Word. In Christian asceticism it is considered a “capital” vice, for being the source and head of others: selfishness, materialism, moral impoverishment, hedonism, etc.
The forms of lust can be as many as disturb the natural order and the divine plans: autoerotism, fornication, adultery, incest, rape, kidnapping, sodomy, sacrilege, homosexuality, etc.
The believer must be educated to avoid vice, but training in the moderating virtue of chastity must be more positive than repressive, extolling more the beauty of virtue than the ugliness of the sin of lust.
(See Chastity and see Sexuality)
Pedro Chico González, Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy, Editorial Bruño, Lima, Peru 2006
Source: Dictionary of Catechesis and Religious Pedagogy
(v. chastity, sin, sexuality, capital vices)
(ESQUERDA BIFET, Juan, Dictionary of Evangelization, BAC, Madrid, 1998)
Source: Dictionary of Evangelization
koite (koivth, 2845), primarily a place to lie down, and then a bed, especially the conjugal bed. It denotes, in Rom 13:13, an illicit sexual relationship, “lusts” (RVR; RV, Besson: “beds”; VM: “lewdness”; LBA: “sexual debauchery”). See BED, CONCEIVE, BED.
Source: Vine New Testament Dictionary
see Desire, Concupiscence.
Source: Dictionary of Theology
It is generally used in the sense of disorderly carnal passion.
the heb. nefes expresses longing or desire in Ex. 15.9 (°vrv2 “soul”) and in Ps. 78.18 (°vrv2 “taste”), and encloses the promise of satisfaction in Pr. 10.24. the gr. epithymia it expresses any strong desire, and its good or bad nature is determined by the context or by a qualifying adjective. Consequently, it is used of the intensely pure desire of Christ, Lk. 22.15, and for Paul’s desire to be with Christ, Phil. 1.23, and seeing his converts, 1 Thess. 2.17. But in 1 Pet. 4.3 it appears among a list of gentile vices, and the adjectives “worldly”, “evil”, “juvenile”, and “deceitful” are added to it in Tit. 2.12; Col. 3.5; 2 Ti. 2.22; and Eph. 4.22, respectively. The restricted reference to sexual passion appears in Eph. 23; 1 Jn. 2.16; 1 Pet. 2.11 (cf. LXX and Josh., Ant.). The strong desire of the Spirit is contrasted with that of the flesh in Gal. 5.17. Other related voices are pathos‘passion’ (1 Thess. 4.5); orexis‘lewdness’ (Rom. 1.27), and hēdonē‘delight’ (Jas. 4.3).
Bibliography. Arndt; HDB; BS Easton, Pastoral Epistles, 1947, pp. 186ff; MM; H. Schönweiss et al., NIDNTT 1, p. 456–461.
DHT
Douglas, J. (2000). New Biblical Dictionary: First Edition. Miami: United Bible Societies.
Source: New Bible Dictionary