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Strong's #5387 - φιλόστοργος

Transliteration
philóstorgos
Phonetics
fil-os'-tor-gos
Origin
from (G5384) and storge (cherishing one's kindred, especially parents or children)
Parts of Speech
adjective
TDNT
None
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Definition   
Thayer's
  1. the mutual love of parents and children and wives and husbands
  2. loving affection, prone to love, loving tenderly
    1. chiefly of the reciprocal tenderness of parents and children
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

φῐλόστοργ-ος, ον,

(στέργω, στοργή)

loving tenderly, affectionate, freq. of family affection, X. Cyr. 1.3.2, Theoc. 18.13, etc.; of a nurse, Sor. 1.88; of horses, Arist. HA 611a12; γένος ἀετῶν πρὸς τοὺς τρέφοντας φ. Ael. NA 2.40; title of two queens named Athenais, IG 22.3426.3, 3428.5; φ. εἰς ἀλλήλους Romans 12:10; περί τινα Plu. Cleom. 1 (dub. constr.); φ. πρὸς τὰ τηλικαῦτα Id. 2.608c: Comp., nihil -ότερον Cic. Att. 13.9.1: Sup., -οτάτη διαφερόντως πρός τινα OGI 331.46 (Pergam., ii B. C.): — τὸ φ., = φιλοστοργία, X. Ages. 8.1, Plu. So 7; τὸ ποτὶ τὰν πατρίδα φ. Abh.Berl.Akad. 1925(5).28 (Cyrene, i B. C. /i A. D.). Adv. -γως Arist. HA 621a29; εὐσεβῶς τὰ πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς διακείμενος καὶ φ. πρὸς τοὺς γονεῖς OGI 229.6 (Smyrna, iii B. C.), cf. BMus.Inscr. 925b12 (Branchidae, i B. C.), Plu. Fab. 21; φ. ἔχειν πρός.. J. AJ 4.6.8; literae φ. scriptae, Cic. Att. 15.17.2: Comp. -ότερον Gp. 16.21.6: Sup. -ότατα Iamb. VP 7.34.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

φιλόστοργος, φιλοστοργον (φίλος, and στοργή the mutual love of parents and children; also of husbands and wives), loving affection, prone to love, loving tenderly; used chiefly of the reciprocal tenderness of parents and children: τῇ φιλαδελφία (dative of respect) εἰς ἀλλήλους (R. V. in love of the brethren tenderly affectioned one to another), Romans 12:10. (Xenophon, Plutarch, Lucian, Aelian, others) Cf. Fritzsche, Commentary on Romans, vol. iii., p. 69.


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

** φιλόστοργος , -ον

(< στοργή , family affection),

[in LXX: 4 Maccabees 15:13*;]

tenderly loving, affectionate (Xen., Plut., al.): of Christians, Romans 12:10.†


Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Vocabulary of the Greek NT

The only ex. of this word we can produce from our sources is the iv/A.D. charm BGU IV. 1026xxiii. 24, where, after various invocations such as δ [ός ] μοι χάριν, ποίη [σόν ] με καλόν, the whole is concluded with χαριτώσο [μαι, ";I will bestow favour upon thee."; For the NT usage (Luk. 1:28, Eph. 1:6), see Lightfoot Notes p. 315, and Robinson Eph. p. 226 ff. Some various renderings of Eph. 1:6 are brought together in Exp T xxix. p. 561. Cf. MGr χαριτωμένος, ";charming.";

 


The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
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