noun · feminine
filanthrōpias
Strong’sG5363
love of mankind, benevolence
stem filanthrōpi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** φιλανθρωπία, -ας, ἡ
(< φιλάνθρωπος, humane), [in LXX: Es 8:13, II Mac 6:22 14:9, III Mac 3:15, 18 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5363 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfil-an-thro-pee'-ah
fondness of mankind, i.e. benevolence ("philanthropy")
Fromfrom the same as G5364;
King Jameskindness, love towards man.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
humanity, benevolence, kind-heartedness, humane feeling, or, in a weaker sense, kindliness, courtesy,
I of men, NT+5th c.BC+; opposed to σεμνότης, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to φθόνος, Refs 5th c.BC+; with πραότης, Refs 5th c.BC+; with χρηστότης, Refs 4th c.AD+courtesy, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὑπὸ φιλανθρωπίας Pl.[same place]; μετὰ φ. Refs 5th c.BC+ [same place]; clemency, Refs 5th c.BC+; the intercourse of lovers, Refs 4th c.BC+: plural, acts of kindness, courtesies, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.b ἡ σὴ φ. as a form of address, your Clemency, Refs 2nd c.AD+
I.2 of God, love to man, NT
II of things, ἡ τοῦ ὀνόματος (i. e. νόμος) φ. its mildness, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ φ. τῆς τέχνης, of agriculture, Refs 5th c.BC+; χώρα πάσης φ. ἐστερημένη, of a desert country, Refs 1st c.BC+; in disease, mild symptoms, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III concession, privilege, Refs 2nd c.BC+; θεία φ. imperial grant, Refs 3rd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | filanthrōpias1×φιλανθρωπία | filanthrōpiais |
| object accusative | filanthrōpian1×φιλανθρωπίαν | filanthrōpiain |
| direct address vocative | filanthrōpiar | filanthrōpiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | filanthrōpiau | filanthrōpiaiu |
| to, for dative | filanthrōpia | filanthrōpiai |
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
filanthrōpia 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
filanthrōpias“love for mankind”subjectnominative singular1×
Titus 3:4hote de tas chrēstotas kai tas filanthrōpias epifanita tou sōtērou nu theou,… of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
filanthrōpian“kindness”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 28:2… tē barbarois parechale ouk tan tucharantan filanthrōpian ni, haptarantois gar puran proslabela pantoin …The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed …