adjective

filagathos

Greekφιλάγαθος (filagathos)

Strong’sG5358

loving what is good

stem filagath-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

loving what is good1×

What it means

** φιλ-άγαθος, -ον

[in LXX: Wi 7:22 *;]

loving that which is good, loving goodness: Tit 1:8 (Arist., Polyb., al.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5358 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfil-ag'-ath-os

fond to good, i.e. a promoter of virtue

Fromfrom G5384 and G18;

King Jameslove of good men.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	filagathos	filagathas	filagathem	filagathois	filagathais	filagatheim
object accusative	filagathon1×φιλάγαθον	filagathan		filagathoin	filagathain
direct address vocative	filagathor	filagathar		filagathoir	filagathair
of, belonging to genitive	filagathou	filagathau	filagatheu	filagathoiu	filagathaiu	filagatheiu
to, for dative	filagatho	filagatha	filagathe	filagathoi	filagathai	filagathei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

filagathstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

filagath is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

filagathon“loving what is good”objectaccusative singular1×

Titus 1:8“loving what is good”alla filoxenon, filagathon, sōfrōnon, dikaion, hosion, enkraton,Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.