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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 29 times in 27 verses in the MGNT 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, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:6 - Then Jesus went with them. And when He was already not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to Him, saying to Him, “Lord, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy that You should enter 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, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:5 - And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:6 - ‘for a friend of mine has come to me on his 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 say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:4 - “And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of 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 sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:12 - Then He also said to him who invited Him, “When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.

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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 and 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 her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:29 - “So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:9 - “And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail,[fn] they may receive you into an everlasting home.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:16

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:12 - That very day Pilate and Herod became friends with each other, for previously 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 of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:11 - These things He said, and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:14

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:15 - “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I 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 - From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar’s friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 19:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:31 - Then some of the officials of Asia, who were his friends, sent to him pleading that he would not venture into the theater.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:3 - And the next day we landed at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him liberty to go to his friends 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, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”[fn] And he was called the friend of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:4 - Adulterers and[fn] adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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