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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 [with others], and they say, ‘Look! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews]!’ Yet wisdom is justified and vindicated by her deeds [in the lives of those who respond to Me].”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:6 - And Jesus went with them. But when He was near the house, the centurion sent friends to Him, saying, “Lord, do not trouble Yourself further, for I am not worthy 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, ‘Look, a man who is a glutton and a [heavy] wine-drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews].’

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:5 -

Then He said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and goes to him at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves [of bread];

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:6 - for a friend of mine who is on a journey has just come to visit me, and I have nothing to serve him’;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:8 - “I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything just because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence and boldness he will get up and give him whatever he needs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:4 -

“I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have nothing 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 [to eat] at the last place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; and then you will be honored in the presence of all who are at the table with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:12 -

Jesus 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 or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, otherwise they may 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 gets home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’

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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 [women] friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I found the lost coin!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:29 - “But he said to his father, ‘Look! These many years I have served you, and I have never neglected or disobeyed your command. Yet you have never given me [so much as] a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:9 - “And I tell you [learn from this], make friends for yourselves [for eternity] by means of the [fn]wealth of unrighteousness [that is, use material resources as a way to further the work of God], so that when it runs out, they will welcome 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 and handed over even by parents and brothers and 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 - Now that very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other—before this they had been enemies.

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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 by and listens to him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. So this pleasure and joy of mine is now complete.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:11 - He said this, and after that said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:13 - “No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own 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 keep on doing what I command you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:15 - “I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you [My] friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:12 - As a result of this, Pilate kept making efforts to release Him, but the Jews kept screaming, “[fn]If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar! Anyone who makes himself out [to be] a king opposes Caesar [and rebels against the emperor]!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:24 - On the following day he [and the others] entered Caesarea. 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 - Even some of the Asiarchs (officials) who were his friends sent word to him and repeatedly warned him not to venture into the amphitheater.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:3 - The next day we landed at Sidon; and Julius, treating Paul with [thoughtful] consideration, allowed him to go to his friends there and be cared for and refreshed.

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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 THIS [faith] WAS CREDITED TO HIM [by God] AS RIGHTEOUSNESS and AS CONFORMITY TO HIS WILL,” and he was called the friend of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:4 - You adulteresses [disloyal sinners—flirting with the world and breaking your vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend [that is, loving the things of the world] is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 3Jo 1:15

Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:15 -

Peace be to you. The friends [here] greet you. Greet the friends [personally] by name.

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