What's the difference between 欲{ほっ}する and 欲しがる?


Is there one? One of my dictionaries lists them as

>   * 欲{ほっ}する → to desire/to want
>   * 欲しがる → to desire/to want/to wish for/to covet
>

Only the latter sounds like it includes more "bad"/selfish desires (covet).
However, in this verse in the Bible, they both appear, and both talk about
"bad"/selfishly desiring something.

> あなたの隣人の妻を **欲{ほっ}して** はならない。隣人の家、畑、男女の奴隷、牛、ろばなど、隣人のものを一切 **欲しがって** はならない。 ―
> 申命記 / 5章 21節

So all they really different at all?

Also, as a side question, is `欲する` ever read as `よくする`? I see it [listed
here](http://dic.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?ei=UTF-8&p=%E6%AC%B2%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B&fr=dic&stype=prefix),
and it comes up in my Android Google Japanese IME, but the dictionary only has
an entry for `ほっする`.




I have _never_ heard 欲する spoken in Japan, while you can hear 〜がる every day on
TV and in daily life. I would compare it to the currently-used form 感じる and
the now-rare 感ずる (cf. 弁ずる、講ずる) which I have again, never heard in speech but
have seen in the novels of Soseki and Dazai.

I would be willing to go so far as to say that "covet" is a poor translation
of 欲しがる, and should be placed under 欲する for the same reasons.




I have _never_ heard 欲する spoken in Japan, while you can hear 〜がる every day on
TV and in daily life. I would compare it to the currently-used form 感じる and
the now-rare 感ずる (cf. 弁ずる、講ずる) which I have again, never heard in speech but
have seen in the novels of Soseki and Dazai.

I would be willing to go so far as to say that "covet" is a poor translation
of 欲しがる, and should be placed under 欲する for the same reasons.

