noun · neuter
filēmem
Strong’sG5370
a kiss
stem filēm-7 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books1 of 6 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.
φίλημα, -τος, τό
(< φιλέω), [in LXX: Pr 27:6, Ca 1:2 (נְשִׁיקָה) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5370 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfil'-ay-mah
a kiss
Fromfrom G5368;
King Jameskiss.
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
Doric dialect φίλᾱμα Refs 2nd c.BC+:— kiss, Refs 5th c.BC+; of kisses as prizes in a game, παίζωμεν περὶ φιλημάτων Refs 5th c.BC+; as a symbol of Christian love, NT
II plural, cosmetics, 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 or object direct | filēmem | filēmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | filēmeu | filēmeiu |
| to, for dative | filēme6×φιλήματι | filēmei |
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
filēme 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.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
filēme“kiss”to, fordative singular6×
Luke 22:48Iēsus de legata auto; Ioudor, filēme ton huion tou anthrōpou paradōasō?… the Son of Man with a kiss?”
Romans 16:16Aspazevar allēloin en filēme hagie. Aspazolō vin tais ekklēsais pantais …Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send …
1 Corinthians 16:20… tois adelfois pantois. aspazevar allēloin en filēme hagie.… Greet one another with a holy kiss.
2 Corinthians 13:12aspazevar allēloin en hagie filēme. aspazolō vin tois hagiois pantois.Greet one another with a holy kiss.
1 Thessalonians 5:26aspazevar toin adelfoin pantoin en filēme hagie.… all the brothers with a holy kiss.
1 Peter 5:14aspazevar allēloin en filēme agapau. eirēnas vi pantoi toi en …Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of …
filēmem1×
Luke 7:45filēmem mi ouk dōasa; houtas de apo …… did not greet Me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing …