noun · feminine
filias
Greekφιλία (filia)
Strong’sG5373
friendship
stem fili-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
φιλία, -ας, ἡ
(< φίλος), [in LXX chiefly for אַהֲבָה;]
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.
Every form
| 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
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
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
filias“friendship”subjectnominative singular1×
James 4:4“friendship”moichaliair, ouk oidavē hoti tas filias tou kosmou echthras tou theou atō? hos ean oun bouliteia filos arō tou kosmou, echthros tou theou kathistanitō.You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.