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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Philemon 1:5 ἀγάπην agapēn · A person, place or thing: receives the action
hearing of thy love, and of the faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;
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Philemon 1:7 ἀγάπῃ agapē · A person, place or thing: to or for
For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.
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Philemon 1:9 ἀγάπην agapēn · A person, place or thing: receives the action
yet for love's sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.