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Lexicon :: Strong's G5384 - philos

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φίλος
Transliteration
philos (Key)
Pronunciation
fee'-los
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 9:146,1262

Strong’s Definitions

†φίλος phílos, fee'-los; properly, dear, i.e. a friend; actively, fond, i.e. friendly (still as a noun, an associate, neighbor, etc.):—friend.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's G5384 in the following manner: friend (29x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's G5384 in the following manner: friend (29x).

  1. friend, to be friendly to one, wish him well

    1. a friend

    2. an associate

    3. he who associates familiarly with one, a companion

    4. one of the bridegroom's friends who on his behalf asked the hand of the bride and rendered him various services in closing the marriage and celebrating the nuptials

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†φίλος phílos, fee'-los; properly, dear, i.e. a friend; actively, fond, i.e. friendly (still as a noun, an associate, neighbor, etc.):—friend.
STRONGS G5384:
φίλος, φίλη, φίλον, from Homer down, friendly (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. and II.): φίλον εἶναι τίνι, to be friendly to one, wish him well, Acts 19:31;
1. ὁ φίλος, the Sept. for רֵעַ, אֹהֵב, a substantive, a friend: Luke 7:6; Luke 11:5; Luke 15:6; Luke 16:9; Luke 23:12; Acts 27:3; 3 John 1:15(14): joined with συγγενεῖς, Luke 21:16; an associate, opposed to δοῦλος, John 15:15; φίλοι ἀναγκαιοι (A. V. near friends) Latinnecessitate conjuncti, Acts 10:24; φίλε, friend, in kindly address, Luke 14:10; with a genitive of the subject, ὁ φίλος τίνος, Luke 11:6,(8); Luke 12:4; 14:12; 15:29; John 11:11; John 15:13f; specifically, he who associates familiarly with one, a companion, Matthew 11:19; Luke 7:34; ὁ φίλος τοῦ νυμφίου, the rabbinical שׁושְׁבֵּן (which see in Buxtorf or Levy) (i. e. 'son of gladness'), one of the bridegroom's friends who on his behalf asked the hand of the bride and rendered him various services in closing the marriage and celebrating the nuptials (B. D., under the word Marriage, III.; Edersheim, Jewish Social Life, p. 152), John 3:29; φίλος τοῦ Καίσαρος, on Caesar's side, loyal to his interests, John 19:12; Θεοῦ, especially dear to God, peculiarly favored with his intimacy, James 2:23 ((cf. Harnack and Lightfoot on Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 10, 1 [ET]; Rönsch in the Zeitschr. f. wissenschaftl. Theol. for 1873, p. 583f); also in secular authors cf. Grimm, Exeget. Hdbch. on Wis. 7:27, p. 164); with a genitive of the thing, one who finds his pleasure in a thing, φίλος τοῦ κόσμου, James 4:4.
2. Feminine, φίλη, ἡ, a (female) friend: Luke 15:9.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
11:19
Luke
7:6; 7:34; 11:5; 11:6; 12:4; 14:10; 14:12; 15:6; 15:9; 15:29; 16:9; 21:16; 23:12
John
3:29; 11:11; 15:13; 15:15; 19:12
Acts
10:24; 19:31; 27:3
1 Corinthians
10; 10:1
James
2:23; 4:4
3 John
1:15

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Strong's Number G5384 matches the Greek φίλος (philos),
which occurs 29 times in 27 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:19 - “The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a [fn]drunkard, a friend G5384 of tax collectors and [fn]sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated [fn]by her deeds.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:6 - Now Jesus was going on His way with them; and when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends G5384, saying to Him, “[fn]Lord, do not trouble Yourself further, for I am not good enough for You to come under my roof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:34 - “The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a [fn]drunkard, a friend G5384 of tax collectors and [fn]sinners!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:5 -

Then He said to them, “Which of you has a friend G5384 and will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend G5384, lend me three loaves,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:6 - for a friend G5384 of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:8 - “I tell you, even though he will not arise and give him anything because he is his friend G5384, yet because of his [fn]persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:4 -

“But I say to you, My friends G5384, do not fear those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:10 - “But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend G5384, move up higher’; then you will have honor in the sight of all who recline at the table with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:12 -

And He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends G5384 or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and that will be your repayment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:6 - “And when he comes home, he calls together his friends G5384 and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:9 - “And when she has found it, she calls together her friends G5384 and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the [fn]drachma which I had lost!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:29 - “But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and never have I [fn]neglected a command of yours. And yet never have you given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends G5384.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:9 - “And I say to you, make friends G5384 for yourselves from the [fn]wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will [fn]take you into the eternal dwellings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:16 - “But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends G5384, and they will put some of you to death,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:12 - Now Herod and Pilate became friends G5384 with one another that very day; for before they had been at enmity with each other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:29 - “He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend G5384 of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:11 - He said these things, and after that He *said to them, “Our friend G5384 Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:13 - “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends G5384.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:14 - “You are My friends G5384 if you do what I command you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:15 - “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends G5384, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:12 - As a result of this Pilate kept seeking to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, “If you release this man, you are no friend G5384 of Caesar; everyone who makes himself to be a king [fn]opposes Caesar.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:24 - And on the following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and close friends G5384.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 19:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:31 - Also some of the [fn]Asiarchs who were friends G5384 of his sent to him and repeatedly urged him not to [fn]venture into the theater.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:3 - The next day we put in at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul with consideration and allowed him to go to his friends G5384 and receive care.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:23 - And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS COUNTED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS,” and he was called the friend G5384 of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:4 - You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend G5384 of the world sets himself as an enemy of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 3Jo 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:14 - but I hope to see you shortly, and we will speak face to face.
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