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Strong G5384φίλος

friendly/friend

Transliteration
philos
Pronunciation
fee'-los
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

Properly dear that is a friend; actively fond that is friendly (still as a noun an associate neighbor etc.): - friend.

Detailed definition

φίλος, -η, -ον
[in LXX chiefly for רֵעַ, אָהַב;]
1. pass., beloved, dear (Hom., Eur., al.).

2. Act., loving, friendly (in cl. less frequently and only in poets): Act.19:31. As subst., a friend;
__(a) masc., ὁ φ.: Luk.7:6 11:5 14:10 15:6 16:9 21:16 23:12, Act.27:3, 3Jn.14; opposite to δοῦλος, Jhn.15:15; φ. ἀναγκαῖοι, Act.10:24; with genitive subj., Mat.11:19, Luk.7:34 11:6, 8 12:4 14:12 15:29, Jhn.11:11 15:13-14; ὁ φ. τοῦ νυμφίου, Jhn.3:29; τ. Καίσαρος (see Deiss., BS 167; LAE, 382 f.), Jhn.19:12; θεοῦ (see Hort, in l), Jas.2:23; with genitive of thing(s), τ, κόσμου, Jas.4:4;
__(b) fem., ἡ φ., Luk.15:9,†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G5384 appears in 27 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

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First verses

  1. Matthew 11:19
    The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
  2. Luke 7:6
    Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
  3. Luke 7:34
    The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
  4. Luke 11:5
    And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
  5. Luke 11:6
    For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
  6. Luke 11:8
    I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
  7. Luke 12:4
    And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
  8. Luke 14:10
    But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
  9. Luke 14:12
    Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
  10. Luke 15:6
    And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
  11. Luke 15:9
    And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
  12. Luke 15:29
    And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
  13. Luke 16:9
    And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
  14. Luke 21:16
    And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
  15. Luke 23:12
    And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
  16. John 3:29
    He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
  17. John 11:11
    These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
  18. John 15:13
    Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
  19. John 15:14
    Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
  20. John 15:15
    Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
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φίλος, η, ον,
also ος, ον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.93: [ῐ: but 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses the _vocative_ φίλε)] with ῑ at the beginning of a verse, see below].
I passive, beloved, dear, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.20, etc.; παῖδε φίλω 7.279)]; frequently with dative, dear to one, μάλα οἱ φ. ἦεν [Refs (1.381; φ. ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι 20.347, etc.: _vocative_, φίλε κασίγνητε (at the beginning of the line) 4.155, 5.359)]; with neuter nouns, φίλε τέκνον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.363, 3.184, etc.; but φίλον τέκος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.162)]; also φίλος for φίλε (Attic dialect, accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 213.28), φίλος ὦ Μενέλαε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.189, compare 9.601, 21.106, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.76, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 545 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 277 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1168 (Lyric poetry))]: genitive added to the vocative, φίλ᾽ ἀνδρῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.74, 24.40; ὦ φίλα γυναικῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 460 (Lyric poetry): as)] substantive:
I.a φίλος, ὁ, friend, κουρίδιος φίλος, i.e. husband, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.22)]; φίλοι friends, kith and kin, νόσφιφίλων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.256; τῆλεφίλων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.333, compare 6.287)]; φ. μέγιστος my greatest friend, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1331)]; φίλοι οἱ ἐγγυτάτω, οἱ ἔγγιστα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.41 codices, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.24.2; after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] frequently with a genitive, ὁ Διὸς φίλος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 306)]; τοὺς ἐμαυτοῦ φ., τοὺς τούτων φ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.47; φ. ἐμός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 421)]; τῶν ἐμε̄ν φ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 509; τοὺς σφετέρους φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.25: proverbial, ἔστιν ὁ φ. ἄλλος αὐτός)] a friend is another self, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1166a31; κοινὰ τὰ τῶν φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 279c, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1159b31; οὐθεὶς φ. ᾧ πολλοὶ φ. [prev. author] “EE” 1245b20)]; also of friends or allies, opposed to πολέμιοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.48; φ. καὶ σύμμαχος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.12, etc.)]; of a lover, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.4 (in bad sense, “Lac.” 2.13))]; φίλε my friend, as a form of courteous address, [NT (NT.Luke.14.10, etc.)]; in relation to things, οἱ μουσικῆς φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 580.3; ἀληθείας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 487a; τῶν εἰδῶν [prev. author] “Sph.” 248a; Χίους φ. ποιῆσαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.36, etc.; ποιεῖσθαι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 38; κτᾶσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.27, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.40; φίλους τιθέντες τούς γε πολεμιωτάτους 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 848; φίλῳ χρῆσθαί τινι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.63; ἡμᾶς ἔχειν φίλους 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.40; for 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.49, see at {φίλιος}.)]
I.b φίλη, ἡ, dear one, friend, κλῦτε, φίλαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.722; λόγοις ἐγὼ φιλοῦσαν οὐ στέργω φίλην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 543)]; of a wife, φίλην τινὰ ἄγεσθαι take as one's wife, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.146, 288)]; ἡ Ξέρξου φ., of his mother, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 832)]; of a mistress, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.23, 3.11.16; φίλην ποιήσασθαί τινα 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.14.)]
I.c φίλον, τό, an object of love, τὸ φ. σέβεσθαι to reverence what the city loves, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 187 (Lyric poetry))]: addressed to persons, darling, φ. ἐμόν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 952 (Lyric poetry); so φίλτατον [prev. work] 970)]; τὰ φίλτατα one's nearest and dearest, dear ones, such as wife and children, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 851, “Eu.” 216, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 366, “OC” 1110, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 16)]: see at {φίλτατο; τἀμὰ φίλα, τὰ σὰ φ}., [Refs ([prev. author] “Ion” 523 (troch.), 613.)]
I.d οἱ πρῶτοι φίλοι, a title at the Ptolemaic court, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“OGI” 99.3, “PTeb.” 11.4 (2nd c.BC))], etc.; or simply οἱ φ. τοῦ βασιλέως [Refs (“OGI” 100.1; or οἱ φ. alone, [prev. work] 115.4; τῶν φ. και διοικητοῦ)] one of the king's friends and dioecetes, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 79.56 (2nd c.BC).)]
I.2 of things, pleasant, welcome, δόσις ὀλίγη τε φ. τε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.208, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.167: with _dative_ _person_, αἰεὶ γάρ τοι ἔρις τε φίλη 5.891, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.248, 13.295; οὐ φίλα τοι ἐρέω 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104)]; δαίμοσιν πράσσειν φίλα their pleasure, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 660, compare below 11.)]
I.2.b frequently as predicate, φίλον ἐστί or γίγνεταί μοι pleases me, it is after my own heart, εἴ πού τοι φίλον ἐστί [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.320)]; μὴ φ. Διὶ πατρὶ γένοιτο[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 316, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.387; εἰ τόδε πᾶσι φ. καὶ ἡδὺ γένοιτο 4.17; καί τοι φ. ἔπλετο θυμῷ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.145, etc.; τοῦτο μὲν ἴτω ὅπῃ τῷ θεῷ φίλον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 19a)]: less frequently with infinitive, οὐ μὲν Τυδέϊ γ᾽ ὧδε φίλον πτωσκαζέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.372; πεφιδέσθαι ἐνὶ φρεσὶ φίλτερον ἦεν Τρώων 21.101, compare 24.334, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.378; so ταῦτα δαίμονί κοω φίλον ἦν οὕτω γενέσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.87, compare 108, 4.97: rarely with)]participle, εἰ τόδ᾽ αὐτῷ φιλον κεκλημένῳ if it please him to be so called, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 161 (Lyric poetry))]: agreeing with plural, αἰεί τοι τὰ κάκ᾽ ἐστὶ φίλα φρεσὶ μαντεύεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.107, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.15; ἔνθα φίλ᾽ ὀπταλέα κρέα ἔδμεναι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.345; σοὶ δ᾽ ἔργα φίλ᾽ ἔστω μέτρια κοσμεῖν 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 306.)]
I.2.c in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] and early Poets, one's own; frequently of limbs, life, etc., φίλον δ᾽ ἐξαίνυτο θυμόν he took away dear life, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.155, compare 22.58; κατεπλήγη φίλον ἦτορ 3.31; εἰς ὅ κε.. μοι φίλα γούνατ᾽ ὀρώρῃ 9.610; φίλον κατὰ λαιμόν 19.209)]; especially of one's nearest kin, πατὴρ φ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (22.408, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 20 a. 11; ἄλοχος φ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.480: compare φίλτατος: as a standing epithet when no affection is implied, μητρὶ φίλῃ Ἀλθαίῃ χωόμενος κῆρ)] angry with his own mother, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.555)]: simply to denote possession, φίλα εἵματα [Refs (2.261)]; φ. πόνος their wonted labour, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.20.)]
I.2.d applied to the numbers [Refs 4th c.AD+ (284 and 220, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “in Nicomachi arithmeticam introductionem” p.35P.)]
II less frequently (chiefly poetry) in active sense, loving, friendly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.313, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.775: with _genitive_, φίλαν ξένων ἄρουραν)] friendly to strangers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 5.8, compare “P.” 3.5)]: of things, kindly, pleasing, φίλα φρεσὶ μήδεα εἰδώς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.325)]; φίλα φρονέειν τινί feel kindly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.219; φ. ἐργάζεσθαί τινι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.210; φ. εἰδέναι τινί 3.277)]; φ. ποιέεσθαί τινι deal with one in friendly fashion, do one a pleasure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.152, 5.37.)]
II.2 fond of a thing, attached to, ἄλλων νόμων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 543; δειλίας φίλον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 604d.)]
III adverb φίλως, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, φίλως χ᾽ ὁρόῳτε)] ye would fain see it, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.347, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 45, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 247 (Lyric poetry), [1591], etc.)]; φ. ἐμοί in a manner dear or pleasing to me, [Refs ([prev. work] 1581.)]
III.2 in a friendly, kindly spirit, τήνδε τὴν πόλιν φ. εἰπών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 758; φ. δέχεσθαί τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.5, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 988c.)]
IV φίλος has several forms of comparison:
IV.1 comparative φιλίων [λῐ], ον, genitive ονος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.351, 24.268)]: superlative φίλιστος, η, ον, interpolated in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 842.)]
IV.2 comparative φίλτερος, superlative φίλτατος, see entry.
IV.3 comparative φιλαίτερος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.9.29, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 58)]: superlative φιλαίτατος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.3.8, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.98.)]
IV.4 regular comparative φιλώτερος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.18 codices, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 146.)]
IV.5 also as comparative, μᾶλλον φίλος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 219, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 886; φ. μᾶλλον 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.1.4)]; superlative, μάλιστα φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.1.17.)]