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Lexicon :: Strong's G27 - agapētos

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ἀγαπητός
Transliteration
agapētos (Key)
Pronunciation
ag-ap-ay-tos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:21,5

Strong’s Definitions

ἀγαπητός agapētós, ag-ap-ay-tos'; from G25; beloved:—(dearly, well) beloved, dear.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 62x

The KJV translates Strong's G27 in the following manner: beloved (47x), dearly beloved (9x), well beloved (3x), dear (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 62x
The KJV translates Strong's G27 in the following manner: beloved (47x), dearly beloved (9x), well beloved (3x), dear (3x).

  1. beloved, esteemed, dear, favourite, worthy of love

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀγαπητός agapētós, ag-ap-ay-tos'; from G25; beloved:—(dearly, well) beloved, dear.
STRONGS G27:
ἀγαπητός, -ῆ, -ον, (ἀγαπάω), beloved, esteemed, dear, favorite; (opposed to ἐχθρός, Romans 11:28): ὁ υἱός μου (τοῦ Θεοῦ) ὁ ἀγαπητός, of Jesus, the Messiah, Matthew 3:17 [here WH marginal reading take ὁ ἀγαπητός absolutely, connecting it with what follows]; Matthew 12:18; Matthew 17:5; Mark 1:11; Mark 9:7; Luke 3:22; Luke 9:35 (where L marginal reading T Tr WH ὁ ἐκλελεγμένος); 2 Peter 1:17, cf. Mark 12:6; Luke 20:13; [cf. Ascensio Isa. (edited by Dillmann) Luke 7:23; Luke 8:18, 25, etc.].
ἀγαπητοί Θεοῦ [Winers Grammar, 194 (182f); B. 190 (165)] is applied to Christians as being reconciled to God and judged by him to be worthy of eternal life: Romans 1:7, cf. Romans 11:28; 1 Thessalonians 1:4; Colossians 3:12 (Sept., Psalm 59:7 (Ps. 60:7); Psalm 107:7 (Ps. 108:7); Psalm 126:2 (Ps. 127:2), ἀγαπητοί σου and αὐτοῦ, of pious Israelites). But Christians, bound together by mutual love, are ἀγαπητοί also to one another (Philemon 1:16; 1 Timothy 6:2); hence, they are dignified with this epithet very often in tender address, both indirect (Romans 16:5, 8; Colossians 4:14; Ephesians 6:21, etc.) and direct (Romans 12:19; 1 Corinthians 4:14; [Philemon 1:2, Rec.]; Hebrews 6:9; James 1:16; 1 Peter 2:11; 2 Peter 3:1; [1 John 4:7 G L T Tr WH], etc.). Generally followed by the genitive; once by the dative ἀγαπαπητοί ἡμῖν, 1 Thessalonians 2:8 [yet cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 2; B. 190 (165)].
ἀγαπητός ἐν κυρίῳ beloved in the fellowship of Christ, equivalent to dear fellow-Christian, Romans 16:8. [Not used in the Fourth Gospel or the Book of Revelation. In classical Greek from Homer, Iliad 6, 401 on; cf. Cope on Aristotle, rhet. 1, 7, 41.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
59:7; 60:7; 107:7; 108:7; 126:2; 127:2
Matthew
3:17; 12:18; 17:5
Mark
1:11; 9:7; 12:6
Luke
3:22; 7:23; 8:18; 8:25; 9:35; 20:13
Romans
1:7; 11:28; 11:28; 12:19; 16:5; 16:8; 16:8
1 Corinthians
4:14
Ephesians
6:21
Colossians
3:12; 4:14
1 Thessalonians
1:4; 2:8
1 Timothy
6:2
Philemon
1:2; 1:16
Hebrews
6:9
James
1:16
1 Peter
2:11
2 Peter
1:17; 3:1
1 John
4:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G27 matches the Greek ἀγαπητός (agapētos),
which occurs 18 times in 18 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:2 - He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:16 - and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:34 - Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:20 - Those who render me evil for good
accuse me because I follow after good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:1 - To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil[fn] of the Sons of Korah; a love song.
My heart overflows with a pleasing theme;
I address my verses to the king;
my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 60:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:5 - That your beloved ones may be delivered,
give salvation by your right hand and answer us!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:12 - “The kings of the armies—they flee, they flee!”
The women at home divide the spoil—

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 84:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:1 - To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.[fn] A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
How lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD of hosts!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 108:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 108:6 - That your beloved ones may be delivered,
give salvation by your right hand and answer me!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 127:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:2 - It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil;
for he gives to his beloved sleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:1 - Let me sing for my beloved
my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:17 - Like a pregnant woman
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O LORD;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:26 - O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth,
and roll in ashes;
make mourning as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:20 - Is Ephraim my dear son?
Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
I do remember him still.
Therefore my heart[fn] yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:10 - I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:10 - “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:6 - And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’[fn] he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’
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