Greek Strong's Lexicon
G2237
Lemma: ἡδονή
Transliteration: hay-don-ay'
Definition: from handano (to please); sensual delight; by implication, desire
KJV Definition: lust, pleasure
Verse usage
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Lukas 8:14
NASB
"The [seed] which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of [this] life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
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Tito 3:3
NASB
For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
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Hakobo 4:1
NASB
What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
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Hakobo 4:3
NASB
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.
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2 Pedro 2:13
NASB
suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,