What is the Strong's number for Phileo?

The Strong's number for Phileo (φιλέω) is G5368. It is a Greek word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Phileo (Strong’s G5368): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Phileo mean?

Phileo (φιλέω, Strong's G5368) is a Greek word. Strong's defines it as to be a friend to (fond of (an individual or an object)), i.e. have affection for (denoting personal attachment, as a matter of sentiment or feeling; while G25 is wider, embracing especially the judgment and the deliberate assent of the will as a matter of principle, duty and propriety: the two thus stand related very much as G2309 and G1014, or as G2372 and G3563 respectively; the former being chiefly of the heart and the latter of the head); specially, to kiss (as a mark of tenderness). The King James Bible translates it as kiss, love.

Phileo (φιλέω) is the Greek word numbered G5368 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to be a friend to (fond of (an individual or an object)), i.e. have affection for (denoting personal attachment, as a matter of sentiment or feeling; while G25 is wider, embracing especially the judgment and the deliberate assent of the will as a matter of principle, duty and propriety: the two thus stand related very much as G2309 and G1014, or as G2372 and G3563 respectively; the former being chiefly of the heart and the latter of the head); specially, to kiss (as a mark of tenderness). In the King James Bible it is translated kiss, love..

φιλέω

philéō · Greek

Strong’s G5368 · fil-eh'-o

Original wordφιλέω
Transliterationphiléō
Pronunciationfil-eh'-o
Strong’s numberG5368
LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

to be a friend to (fond of (an individual or an object)), i.e. have affection for (denoting personal attachment, as a matter of sentiment or feeling; while G25 is wider, embracing especially the judgment and the deliberate assent of the will as a matter of principle, duty and propriety: the two thus stand related very much as G2309 and G1014, or as G2372 and G3563 respectively; the former being chiefly of the heart and the latter of the head); specially, to kiss (as a mark of tenderness)

Derivation. from G5384;

How the King James Bible translates it

kiss, love.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Phileo 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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