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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
Dictionary Aids

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. 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, 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; 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, , 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)

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - Thus Yahweh used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. Then [fn]Moses would return to the camp, and his attendant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 -

“If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife [fn]you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 -

‘Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil?

A maiden, two maidens for every mighty man;

To Sisera a spoil of dyed work,

A spoil of dyed work embroidered,

Dyed work of double embroidery on the [fn]neck of the spoil?’

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:33 -

Ahithophel was counselor to the king;

and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:3 - in the third year of his reign, he held a feast for all his princes and servants, the military officers of Persia and Media, the nobles and the princes of his provinces being in his presence,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:13 -

Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times—for it was the custom of the king thus to speak before all who knew law and justice

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18 - Then the king held a great feast, Esther’s feast, for all his princes and his servants; he also held a remission of taxes for the provinces and gave gifts according to the king’s hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:1 -

After these things, King Ahasuerus magnified Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:10 - But Haman controlled himself, went to his house, and sent for and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a [fn]gallows [fn]fifty cubits high made and in the morning say to the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it; then go gladly with the king to the feast.” And the word was good to Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:9 - and let the robe and the horse be given over to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, and let them clothe the man whom the king delights to honor and lead him on horseback through the city square and call out before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - And Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - because on those days the Jews obtained rest for themselves from their enemies, and it was a month which was turned around for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a [fn]holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness and sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:11 -

Then Job’s three friends heard of all this calamity that had come upon him. So they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to console him and comfort him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:27 -

“You would even cast lots for the orphans

And bargain over your friend.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:13 -

“He has removed my brothers far from me,

And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:21 -

“Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,

For the hand of God has smitten me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:1 -

Then these three men ceased answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:3 - And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:4 -

“I will respond to you,

And your friends with you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:33 -

“Its thundering declares about Him;

The cattle also, concerning what is coming up.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:7 -

Now it happened after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, that Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger burns against you and against your two friends because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:10 -

And Yahweh restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and Yahweh increased all that Job had twofold.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:17 - Then Job died, an old man and full of days.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:11 -

My [fn]loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;

And my kinsmen stand afar off.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:18 -

You have removed lover and friend far from me;

My acquaintances are in darkness.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:17 -

How precious are Your thoughts to me, O God!

How vast is the sum of them!

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:29 -

Do not devise [fn]harm against your neighbor,

While he lives securely beside you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:1 -

My son, if you have become a guarantor for your neighbor,

Have struck your [fn]hands in pledge for a stranger,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3 -

Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself;

Since you have come into the [fn]hand of your neighbor,

Go, humble yourself, and badger your neighbor.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:26 -

The righteous is a guide to his neighbor,

But the way of the wicked makes them wander about.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:20 -

The poor is hated even by his neighbor,

But those who love the rich are many.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:28 -

The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer,

But the mouth of the wicked pours forth evil things.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:28 -

A perverse man spreads strife,

And a whisperer separates close companions.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:29 -

A man of violence entices his neighbor

And leads him in a way that is not good.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:9 -

He who covers a transgression seeks love,

But he who repeats a matter separates close companions.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17 -

A friend loves at all times,

And a brother is born for adversity.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:18 -

A man lacking a heart of wisdom strikes his [fn]hands in pledge

And becomes guarantor in the presence of his neighbor.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:1 -

He who separates himself seeks his own desire,

He breaks out in dispute against all sound wisdom.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:4 -

Wealth adds many friends,

But a poor man is separated from his friend.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:24 -

Do not befriend a man of anger;

And do not come along with a man of great wrath,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:1 -

These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, transcribed.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:8 -

Do not go out hastily to plead your case;

Lest, what will you do in [fn]the end,

When your neighbor humiliates you?

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:10 -

Lest he who hears it bring disgrace upon you,

And the bad report about you will not turn away.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:17 -

Let your foot rarely be in your neighbor’s house,

Lest he have more than his fill of you and hate you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:18 -

Like a club and a sword and a sharp arrow

Is a man who bears [fn]false witness against his neighbor.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:19 -

So is the man who deceives his neighbor,

And says, “Am I not joking?”

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:6 -

Faithful are the wounds of a friend,

But [fn]deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10 -

Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend,

And do not come to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster;

Better is one who dwells near than a brother far away.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:14 -

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,

It will be counted as a curse to him.


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