noun · masculine
filologos
Strong’sG5378
Philologus
stem filolog-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.
φιλόλογος, -ου, ὁ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5378 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
fond of words, talkative, οἶνος φιλολόγους ποιεῖ Refs 2nd c.AD+; φ. καὶ πολύλογος, opposed to βραχύλογος, of Athens, opposed to Sparta, Refs 5th c.BC+; fond of speaking, of Socrates, Refs
II fond of dialectic, fond of philosophical argument, opposed to μισόλογος, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 fond of learning and literature, literary, Λακεδαιμόνιοι.. ἥκιστα φ. ὄντες Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to ἀπαίδευτος, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.3 student, scholar, first used by Eratosthenes of himself, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.4 of books, learned, Refs 1st c.BC+: suitable for a literary man, connected with learning, Refs adverb -λόγως learnedly, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.5 φ. multa, much learned conversation, Refs 1st c.BC+
III studious of words, opposed to φιλόσοφος, Refs 4th c.BC+ in codices, as Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | filologos | filologois |
| object accusative | filologon1×Φιλόλογον | filologoin |
| direct address vocative | filologor | filologoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | filologou | filologoiu |
| to, for dative | filologo | filologoi |
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
filologo 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
filologon“Philologus”objectaccusative singular1×
Romans 16:15aspazevar Filologon kai Ioulian, Nērevon kai tan adelfan …Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister …