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adjective

filautos

Greekφίλαυτος (filautos)

Strong’sG5367

selfish

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

Translated as

lovers of themselves

What it means

* φίλ-αυτος, -ον

loving oneself (Arist.); in bad sense (ib.), selfish: II Ti 3:2.†

SYN.: αὐθάδης (v. Tr., Syn., § xciii)

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

Strong’s G5367 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfil'-ow-tos

fond of self, i.e. selfish

Fromfrom G5384 and G846;

King Jameslover of own self.

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 casemasculine singularfeminine singularneuter singularmasculine pluralfeminine pluralneuter plural
subject nominativefilautosfilautasfilautemfilautoisφίλαυτοιfilautaisfilauteim
object accusativefilautonfilautanfilautoinfilautain
direct address vocativefilautorfilautarfilautoirfilautair
of, belonging to genitivefilautoufilautaufilauteufilautoiufilautaiufilauteiu
to, for dativefilautofilautafilautefilautoifilautaifilautei

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
filautstem+oaegender+smnruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

filaut 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

filautois“lovers of themselves”subjectnominative plural

2 Timothy 3:2“lovers of themselves”eli gar tois anthrōpois filautois, filargurois, alazōnois, huperēfanois, blasfēmois, gonevoi apeithois, acharistois, anosiois,For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,