Strong G5378Φιλόλογος

Philologus

Transliteration
Philologos
Pronunciation
fil-ol'-og-os
Morphology
Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person

Definition

From G5384 and G3056; fond of words that is talkative (argumentative learned philological);
Philologus a Christian: - Philologus.

Meaning of the name

Philologus, "lover of words [education]"

Detailed definition

1. fond of speaking , (Plato Philosophus)
2. fond of learning, literary , Lat. studiosus, (Aristotle Philosopher) (ML)

In the biblical story

Philologus

Believer in Rome greeted by Paul

Philologus, a Christian in Rome to whom Paul sent greetings in his letter to the Romans.

In the Bible

Strong G5378 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • philologus1

First verses

  1. Romans 16:15
    Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.
See every occurrence

Occurrences by book

Related words

Detailed Greek dictionary
φῐλόλογ-ος, ον,
fond of words, talkative, οἶνος φιλολόγους ποιεῖ [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 284)]; φ. καὶ πολύλογος, opposed to βραχύλογος, of Athens, opposed to Sparta, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 641e)]; fond of speaking, of Socrates, [Refs ([prev. author] “Phdr.” 236e.)]
II fond of dialectic, fond of philosophical argument, opposed to μισόλογος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “La.” 188c; φ. γ᾽ εἶ καὶ χρηστός [prev. author] “Tht.” 161a; ὁ φιλόσοφός τε καὶ ὁ φ. [prev. author] “R.” 582e, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 74, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.48 O.)]
II.2 fond of learning and literature, literary, Λακεδαιμόνιοι.. ἥκιστα φ. ὄντες [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1398b14; φύσει Ἀθηναῖοι φ. 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.3.7: opposed to λογόφιλος(lover of reason), 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.67; φιλολόγῳ ὑποκατακλίνεσθαι φιλομαθῆ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.618e, compare 419d)]; opposed to ἀπαίδευτος, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.22.107: opposed to πολιτικός, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 42.)]
II.3 student, scholar, first used by Eratosthenes of himself, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Suetonius Grammaticus et Historicus Latinus “Grammars” 10, compare 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.5.15, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 25, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.4.1, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “Libr.Propr.Prooem.”: but φιλόλογος ὁ φιλῶν λόγους καὶ σπουδάζων περὶ παιδείαν· οἱ δὲ νῦν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐμπείρου τιθέασιν, οὐκ ὀρθῶς 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 371.)]
II.4 of books, learned, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 13.12.3 (_comparative_))]: suitable for a literary man, connected with learning, [Refs ([prev. work] 15.15.2.)] adverb -λόγως learnedly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.11, argument 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ra.”)]
II.5 φ. multa, much learned conversation, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 13.52.2.)]
III studious of words, opposed to φιλόσοφος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus cited in 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Vita Plotini” 14, etap. 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Timaeum commentarii” 1.86 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator, etc. (Freq. written _paroxytone_ φιλολόγος)] in codices, as [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 161a (codex B), “Etymologicum Magnum” 406.10: but φιλόλογος Hdn.Gr. 1.233 (from λόγος, not λέγω).))]