Strong G5355φθόνος
envy
- Transliteration
- phthonos
- Pronunciation
- fthon'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
Probably akin to the base of G5351; ill will (as detraction) that is jealousy (spite): - envy.
Detailed definition
φθόνος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX: Wis.2:24 6:23, 1Ma.8:16, 3Ma.6:7 *;]
envy: Rom.1:29, Gal.5:21, 1Ti.6:4, Tit.3:3, 1Pe.2:1; διὰ φθόνον, Mat.27:18, Mrk.15:10, Php.1:15; πρὸς φθόνον ἐπιποθεῖ τ. πνεῦμα (on the meaning, see R, txt., mg. 1, 2; Hort, Ja., 93 f.), Jas.4:5.†
(AS)
[in LXX: Wis.2:24 6:23, 1Ma.8:16, 3Ma.6:7 *;]
envy: Rom.1:29, Gal.5:21, 1Ti.6:4, Tit.3:3, 1Pe.2:1; διὰ φθόνον, Mat.27:18, Mrk.15:10, Php.1:15; πρὸς φθόνον ἐπιποθεῖ τ. πνεῦμα (on the meaning, see R, txt., mg. 1, 2; Hort, Ja., 93 f.), Jas.4:5.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5355 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- envy8
- envyings1
First verses
- Matthew 27:18For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
- Mark 15:10For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
- Romans 1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
- Galatians 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Philippians 1:15Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
- 1 Timothy 6:4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
- Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- James 4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
- 1 Peter 2:1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Occurrences by book
Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
φθόνος, ὁ,
ill-will or malice, especially envy or jealousy of the good fortune of others [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 416b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1387b22), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.55, etc.; φθόνῳ)]through envy, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.30, 9.71)]; opposed to εὔνοια, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 635b)]; opposed to ἔπαινος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 24.1)]; ἴσχει ὄλβος φθόνον incurs envy, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.29, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.68; φθόνον πρὸς ἀστῶν ἀλφάνουσι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 297; φθόνῳ χρῆσθαι πρὸς τὰ παιδικά 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 253b)]; κρέσσων οἰκτιρμοῦ φθόνος better to be envied than pitied ! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.85, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.6; πρὸς γὰρ τὸν ἔχονθ᾽ ὁ φ. ἕρπει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 157 (_anapaest meter_), compare “OT” 382; ἐς τἀπίσημα δ᾽ ὁ φ. πηδᾶν φιλεῖ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 294)]; φ. συνεστιώμενος, of wealth, [NT+5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Secundus Gnomologus “Sententiae - FPG” 9; φ. [ἐστὶ] τοῖς ζῶσι πρὸς τὸ ἀντίπαλον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.45; κατὰ φθόνον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 686, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 457d; σὺν φθόνῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 780 (Lyric poetry); διὰ φθόνον NT.Phil.1.15)]: with genitive objecti, envy for, jealousy of, τῶν πεπραγμένων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.48)]; φθόνον δὲ σωμάτων ἕξει θεός i.e. will grudge, deny, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 859)]: with genitive subjunctive, envy or jealousy felt by another, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 282a; also φ. ἐφ᾽ ἑτέροις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.39e, etc.; εἴς τινα “Anthologia Graeca” 6.257 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus); πρός τινα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 22)]: plural, envyings, jealousies, heartburnings, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.163, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 679c, 801e, etc.)]
b a cause for indignation, a reproach, ἀποκτείνειν φθόνος [ἐστὶ] γυναῖκας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 288.)]
2 especially jealousy of the gods [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (φθονερός 1.2), θεῶν φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 362, “Ag.” 947; φ. μὴ γένοιτό τις θεῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1135: hence _absolutely_, τὸν φ. δὲ πρόσκυσον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 776; εὐλαβούμενος φθόνον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.305.)]
II refusal from feelings of ill-will or envy, grudging, φθόνος μὲν οὐδεὶς.. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 628)]; οὐδεὶς φ. or φ. οὐδείς, with infinitive, said in granting a request willingly, ἃ τυγχάνω ἀκηκοώς, φ. οὐδεὶς λέγειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 61d; οὐδεὶς.. φ. αὐτῷ διελθεῖν αὐτά [prev. author] “Sph.” 217a, compare b. “Lg.” 641d, 664a.)]
ill-will or malice, especially envy or jealousy of the good fortune of others [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 416b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1387b22), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.55, etc.; φθόνῳ)]through envy, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.30, 9.71)]; opposed to εὔνοια, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 635b)]; opposed to ἔπαινος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 24.1)]; ἴσχει ὄλβος φθόνον incurs envy, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.29, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.68; φθόνον πρὸς ἀστῶν ἀλφάνουσι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 297; φθόνῳ χρῆσθαι πρὸς τὰ παιδικά 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 253b)]; κρέσσων οἰκτιρμοῦ φθόνος better to be envied than pitied ! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.85, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.6; πρὸς γὰρ τὸν ἔχονθ᾽ ὁ φ. ἕρπει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 157 (_anapaest meter_), compare “OT” 382; ἐς τἀπίσημα δ᾽ ὁ φ. πηδᾶν φιλεῖ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 294)]; φ. συνεστιώμενος, of wealth, [NT+5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Secundus Gnomologus “Sententiae - FPG” 9; φ. [ἐστὶ] τοῖς ζῶσι πρὸς τὸ ἀντίπαλον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.45; κατὰ φθόνον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 686, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 457d; σὺν φθόνῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 780 (Lyric poetry); διὰ φθόνον NT.Phil.1.15)]: with genitive objecti, envy for, jealousy of, τῶν πεπραγμένων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.48)]; φθόνον δὲ σωμάτων ἕξει θεός i.e. will grudge, deny, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 859)]: with genitive subjunctive, envy or jealousy felt by another, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 282a; also φ. ἐφ᾽ ἑτέροις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.39e, etc.; εἴς τινα “Anthologia Graeca” 6.257 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus); πρός τινα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 22)]: plural, envyings, jealousies, heartburnings, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.163, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 679c, 801e, etc.)]
b a cause for indignation, a reproach, ἀποκτείνειν φθόνος [ἐστὶ] γυναῖκας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 288.)]
2 especially jealousy of the gods [Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare (φθονερός 1.2), θεῶν φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 362, “Ag.” 947; φ. μὴ γένοιτό τις θεῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1135: hence _absolutely_, τὸν φ. δὲ πρόσκυσον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 776; εὐλαβούμενος φθόνον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.305.)]
II refusal from feelings of ill-will or envy, grudging, φθόνος μὲν οὐδεὶς.. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 628)]; οὐδεὶς φ. or φ. οὐδείς, with infinitive, said in granting a request willingly, ἃ τυγχάνω ἀκηκοώς, φ. οὐδεὶς λέγειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 61d; οὐδεὶς.. φ. αὐτῷ διελθεῖν αὐτά [prev. author] “Sph.” 217a, compare b. “Lg.” 641d, 664a.)]