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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, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:6 - And Jesus was going on with them, and now when he is not far distant from the house the centurion sent unto him friends, saying to him, 'Sir, be not troubled, for I am not worthy that under my roof thou mayest enter;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:34 - the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and ye say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:5 - And he said unto them, 'Who of you shall have a friend, and shall go on unto him at midnight, and may say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:6 - seeing a friend of mine came out of the way unto me, and I have not what I shall set before him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:8 - 'I say to you, even if he will not give to him, having risen, because of his being his friend, yet because of his importunity, having risen, he will give him as many as he doth need;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:4 - 'And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:10 - 'But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:12 - And he said also to him who did call him, 'When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:6 - and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:9 - and having found, she doth call together the female friends and the neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachm that I lost.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:29 - and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:9 - and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:16 - 'And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 23:12 - and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:29 - he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:11 - These things he said, and after this he saith to them, 'Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:13 - greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:14 - ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:15 - no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:12 - From this time was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, 'If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:24 - and on the morrow they did enter into Cesarea; and Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kindred and near friends,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 19:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:31 - and certain also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, having sent unto him, were entreating him not to venture himself into the theatre.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:3 - on the next day also we touched at Sidon, and Julius, courteously treating Paul, did permit him, having gone on unto friends, to receive their care.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:23 - and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, 'And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;' and, 'Friend of God' he was called.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:4 - Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

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Unchecked Copy Box 3Jo 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:14 - and I hope straightway to see thee, and mouth to mouth we shall speak. Peace to thee! salute thee do the friends; be saluting the friends by name.
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