noun · masculine
filētos
Strong’sG5372
Philetus
stem filēt-once in the New Testament1 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.
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
to be loved, worthy of love, Refs 4th c.BC+; τὰ φ. objects of love, Refs
II adverb -τῶς in a friendly spirit, Refs
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 | 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
filētos“Philetus”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Timothy 2:17… noman echati; hoiu atō Humenaios kai Filētos,… gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,