Significati della parola
Definizione breve
[in LXX for אַהֲבָה, which is also rendered by ἀγάπησις and φιλία ;]
love, goodwill, esteem. Outside of bibl. and eccl. books, there is no clear instance (with Deiss., LAE, 18:4, 70:2, cf. the same writer in Constr. Quar., ii, 4; and with MM, VGT, see word, cf. Dr. Moulton in Exp. Times, xxvi, 3, 139). In NT, like ἀγαπάω, -ῶ,
1. Of men's love:
(a) to one another, Jhn.13:35;
(b) to God, 1Jn.2:5.
2. Of divine love;
(a) God's love: to men, Rom.5:8; to Christ, Jhn.17:26;
(b) Christ's love to men: Rom.8:35.
3. In pl., love feasts: Ju 12 (DB, iii, 157).
SYN.: φιλία. ἀ., signifying properly (see: ἀγαπάω) love which chooses its object, is taken over from LXX, where its connotation is more general, into NT, and there used exclusively to express that spiritual bond of love between God and man and between man and man, in Christ, which is characteristic of Christianity. It is thusdistinct from φιλία, friendship (Jas.4:4 only), στοργή, natural affection (in NT only in compounds, see: ἄστοργος) and ἔρως, sexual love, which is not used in NT, its place being taken by ἐπιθυμία. (Cf. ἀγαπάω; and see Abbott, Essays, 70f.; DB, vol. i., 555; Cremer, 13, 593; MM, VGT, see word). (AS)
Dizionario Strong's
from ἀγαπάω; love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast:--(feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (pubblico dominio)
Voce completa del lessico (Liddell-Scott-Jones)
love, [LXX+2nd c.BC+] O; of the love of husband and wife, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
2 especially love of God for man and of man for God, [LXX+1st c.AD+]:—also brotherly love, charity, [NT]
II in plural, love-feast, [NT]
III alms, charity, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
IV ἀγάπη θεῶν, title of Isis, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
Tutte le occorrenze
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Philippians 1:9 ἀγάπη agapē · A person, place or thing: does the action
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
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Philippians 1:17 ἀγάπης agapēs · A person, place or thing: belongs to
but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.
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Philippians 2:1 ἀγάπης agapēs · A person, place or thing: belongs to
If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,
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Philippians 2:2 ἀγάπην agapēn · A person, place or thing: receives the action
make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.