It simply means that You should not sleep with your neighbor's wife because it is an act of Adultery
The Bible teaches us not to covet our neighbours wife, which is lamentable.
One place in the Bible that speaks on coveting is Exodus 20:17, the last of the ten commandments. The tenth commandment is "You shall covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
The relevant quotation is Exodus 20-17, "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
to covet another's property.
Do not murder. You shall have no other God before me. Do not steal. Do not covet. Honor your father and mother. Do not worship idols.
To covet means to have an inordinate or wrongful desire. To covet your neighbor's wife is to want her when you cannot have her for yourself. Jesus equated such lust in the heart as being equally guilty of the sin of adultery. In other words, your relationship with your own wife or lover is not chaste. If you are single such lust means you are not content with your situation. Coveting can lead to infidelity. Throughout the Bible, it is stressed that God gives us what we need. So to covet what others have is to be unhappy with God's provision!
Covet means to desire too much.
There are plenty of ways you could use the word covet in a sentence. You could advise someone not to covet their neighbor for example.
To covet things that do not belong to you is considered a sin.
To covet means to wish for greatly or with envy - a painful and usually resentful awareness of another's possession or positional advantage with your desire for it. The Bible tells us not to think this way especially of someone's wife or goods (car, house, clothes, etc.).
Not eyes but it is the mind that makes us covet. On the other hand, it depends on the eyes. Some eyes I do covet.
Rise is an antonym of decline. Nonpossessiveness is an antonym of covet.