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Strong's #2705 - καταφιλέω
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- to kiss much, kiss again and again, kiss tenderly
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καταφῐλ-έω,
kiss, caress, δίφρον X. Cyr. 6.4.10; χεῖρας καὶ πόδας τινός ib. 7.5.32, cf. Men. Epit. 56, Arr. Epict. 4.10.20; τοὺς μὲν καλοὺς φιλήσοντος, τοὺς δ' ἀγαθοὺς καταφ. X. Mem. 2.6.33, cf. Arist. Fr. 553, LXX Ruth 1:9, Matthew 26:49; dist. from φιλεῖν, Ph. 1.478; esp. of an amorous kiss. Luc. Am. 13.
καταφιλέω, καταφίλω; imperfect κατεφίλουν; 1 aorist κατεφίλησα; to kiss much, kiss again and again, kiss tenderly (Latindeosculor, etc.): τινα, Matthew 26:49; Mark 14:45; Luke 7:38, 45; Luke 15:20; Acts 20:37. (Tobit 7:6; 3Macc. 5:49; Xenophon, Cyril 6, 4,10; 7, 5, 32; Polybius 15, 1, 7; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 11, 7; Aelian v. h. 13, 4; Plutarch, Brut. 16; Lucian, dial. deor. 4, 5; 5, 3; φιλεῖν and καταφίλειν are distinguished in Xenophon, mem. 2, 6, 33; Plutarch, Alex c. 67. The Sept. for נָשַׁק, properly, to join mouth to mouth.) Cf: Fritzsche on Matthew, p. 780; Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part ii., p. 18, note{21}.
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κατα -φιλέω , -ῶ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H5401;]
to kiss fervently, kiss affectionately: Matthew 26:49, Mark 14:45, Luke 7:38; Luke 7:45; Luke 15:20, Acts 20:37.†
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A new ex. of this compound occurs in the Alexandrian Erotic Fragment P Grenf I. 1.3 (ii/ B.C.) quoted s.v. καταλείπω ad fin . Both this passage and more particularly Epict. iv. 10. 20 ἀγρυπνῆσαί σε δεῖ, περιδραμεῖν, τὰς χεῖρας καταφιλῆσαι, ";thou must watch, run about, kiss hands,"; where, as Sharp (Epict. p.104) says, stress is laid ";not on kissing fervently, but on the very fact of kissing at all,"; make the RV marg. of Matthew 26:49, al., very doubtful : cf. also Mithrasliturgic (ed. Dieterich) p. 14.23 καταφιλῶν πάλιν τὰ φυλακτήρια καὶ λέγων κτλ., with reference to a spell. On the other hand Menandrea p. 11.56 λαμβάνων μου κατεφίλει | τὰς χεῖρας, ";he caught and kissed my hands";—of one in a passion of gratitude. See Anz Subsidia, p. 334.
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