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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5384 matches the Greek φίλος (philos),
which occurs 68 times in 61 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 33:11–Pro 27:14)

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - “If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil:
To every man a girl or two;
For Sisera, plunder of dyed garments,
Plunder of garments embroidered and dyed,
Two pieces of dyed embroidery for the neck of the looter?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:33 - Ahithophel was the king’s counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king’s companion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:3 - that in the third year of his reign he made a feast for all his officials and servants—the powers of Persia and Media, the nobles, and the princes of the provinces being before him—

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:13 - Then the king said to the wise men who understood the times (for this was the king’s manner toward all who knew law and justice,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18 - Then the king made a great feast, the Feast of Esther, for all his officials and servants; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces and gave gifts according to the generosity of a king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:1 - After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:10 - Nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet.” And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:9 - “Then let this robe and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that he may array the man whom the king delights to honor. Then parade him on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents to one another and gifts to the poor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:11 - Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come and mourn with him, and to comfort him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:27 - Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless,
And you undermine your friend.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:13 - “He has removed my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:21 - “Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has struck me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:1 - So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 32:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:3 - Also against his three friends his wrath was aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:4 - “I will answer you,
And your companions with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:33 - His thunder declares it,
The cattle also, concerning the rising storm.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:7 - And so it was, after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:10 - And the LORD restored Job’s losses[fn] when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:17 - So Job died, old and full of days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:11 - My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague,
And my relatives stand afar off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:18 - Loved one and friend You have put far from me,
And my acquaintances into darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:17 - How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 - Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
For he dwells by you for safety’s sake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:1 - My son, if you become surety for your friend,
If you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3 - So do this, my son, and deliver yourself;
For you have come into the hand of your friend:
Go and humble yourself;
Plead with your friend.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:26 - The righteous should choose his friends carefully,
For the way of the wicked leads them astray.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:20 - The poor man is hated even by his own neighbor,
But the rich has many friends.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:28 - The heart of the righteous studies how to answer,
But the mouth of the wicked pours forth evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:28 - A perverse man sows strife,
And a whisperer separates the best of friends.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:29 - A violent man entices his neighbor,
And leads him in a way that is not good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:9 - He who covers a transgression seeks love,
But he who repeats a matter separates friends.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17 - A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:18 - A man devoid of understanding shakes hands in a pledge,
And becomes surety for his friend.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:1 - A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire;
He rages against all wise judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:4 - Wealth makes many friends,
But the poor is separated from his friend.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:24 - Make no friendship with an angry man,
And with a furious man do not go,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:1 - These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied:

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:8 - Do not go hastily to court;
For what will you do in the end,
When your neighbor has put you to shame?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:10 - Lest he who hears it expose your shame,
And your reputation be ruined.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:17 - Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house,
Lest he become weary of you and hate you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:18 - A man who bears false witness against his neighbor
Is like a club, a sword, and a sharp arrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:19 - Is the man who deceives his neighbor,
And says, “I was only joking!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:6 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10 - Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
Nor go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:14 - He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
It will be counted a curse to him.

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