CategoryArchaic Word / Emotional Term
Modern Equivalentintensely passionate; forceful; fervent; ardent.
KJV Word TypeAdjective / Adverb
DefinitionCharacterized by intense force, passion, or conviction. In the KJV it describes intense emotion — vehement desire, vehement zeal, and the "most vehement flame" of love in the Song of Solomon. Also used of violent winds and storms.
Key Verses"For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire." (2 Corinthians 7:11)