Bible word study

Agapao (Strong’s G25): Meaning in the Bible

Agapao (ἀγαπάω) is the Greek word numbered G25 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to love (in a social or moral sense). In the King James Bible it is translated (be-)love(-ed)..

• Original wordἀγαπάω
• Transliterationagapáō
• Pronunciationag-ap-ah'-o
• Strong’s numberG25
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. perhaps from (much) [or compare H5689];

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Agapao appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Agapao (G25) stands behind 146 English renderings in 109 verses across 21 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in John (38), 1 John (29), Luke (13).

How the King James Bible renders Agapao, by count

• love51 of 146 (35 percent)
• loved29 of 146 (20 percent)
• loveth20 of 146 (14 percent)
• beloved7 of 146 (5 percent)
• ye love7 of 146 (5 percent)
• thou shalt love6 of 146 (4 percent)

Three places to read Agapao

• Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
• John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Agapao in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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