noun · masculine
filētos
GreekΦίλητος (filētos)
Strong’sG5372
Philetus
stem filēt-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
φίλητός (T, Φιλητός), -ου, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5372 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfil-ay-tos'
amiable; Philetus, an opposer of Christianity
Fromfrom G5368;
King JamesPhiletus.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | filētos1×Φίλητος | filētois |
| object accusative | filēton | filētoin |
| direct address vocative | filētor | filētoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | filētou | filētoiu |
| to, for dative | filēto | filētoi |
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
filēto 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
filētos“Philetus”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Timothy 2:17“Philetus”kai tos logos autoiu hōs gangrainas noman echati; hoiu atō Humenaios kai Filētos,and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,