filias

Strong’sG5373

friendship

stem fili-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.

φιλία, -ας, ἡ

(< φίλος), [in LXX chiefly for אַהֲבָה;]

friendship: c. gen. obj., Ja 4:4.†

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

Strong’s G5373 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfil-ee'-ah

fondness

Fromfrom G5384;

King Jamesfriendship.

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

φῐλί-α,
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, (φιλέω) affectionate regard, friendship (not in Refs 6th c.BC+; φιλίας, inscription on a bowl (perhaps loving-cup), Refs, etc.; ἡ τῆς ψυχῆς φ. διὰ τὸ ἁγνὴ εἶναι, opposed to ἔρως, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἔχθρα, NT+5th c.BC+; opposed to μῖσος, Refs 5th c.BC+; of family affection, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν ταῖς φ. in the family circle, Refs 4th c.BC+; of the regard of dependents towards their superiors, Refs 5th c.BC+; of friendship between States, ἐχρημάτισε περὶ φιλίας τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις Refs 5th c.BC+; τῆς φ. ἀφέσθαι, τὴν φ. διαλύσασθαι, of communities, Refs 5th c.BC+ distinguished by Refs 4th c.BC+ ff.; by the Stoics, Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς φ. ἰτέον, ἔρχεται, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀνανεούμενος τὴν φ. καὶ ζενίαν τὴν πρότερον ὑπάρχουσαν Refs 6th c.BC+; διὰ φιλίαν, see below; κατὰ φιλίαν Refs 5th c.BC+; also by object. genitive, διὰ φιλίαν αὐτοῦ through friendship for him, Refs 5th c.BC+; φ. ξυνετοῦ friendship with a wise man, Refs 3rd c.AD+; so ἡμετέρη φ. friendship with us, Refs 6th c.BC+
2 friendliness, amiability, φ. ἄνευ τοῦ στέργειν Refs 4th c.BC+
3 later, of lovers, fondness, LXX+6th c.AD+
4 with genitive, of things, fondness, liking for, κέρδους Refs 5th c.BC+; [τῶν ἀρχῶν] Refs 4th c.BC+
5 the natural force which unites discordant elements and movements, opposed to νεῖκος, Refs 5th c.BC+
II Refs 4th c.BC+ name for three, Refs (not for six, Refs 4th 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.

friendship1×

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	filias1×φιλία	filiais
object accusative	filian	filiain
direct address vocative	filiar	filiair
of, belonging to genitive	filiau	filiaiu
to, for dative	filia	filiai

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

filistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

filia 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

filias“friendship”subjectnominative singular1×

James 4:4moichalidair, ouk oidavē hoti tas filias tou kosmou echthras tou theou atō? …… adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward …