adjective

filotheos

Greekφιλόθεος (filotheos)

Strong’sG5377

loving God

stem filothe-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

lovers of god1×

What it means

* φιλό-θεος, -ον

loving God (Arist.): II Ti 3:4.†

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

Strong’s G5377 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfil-oth'-eh-os

fond of God, i.e. pious

Fromfrom G5384 and G2316;

King Jameslover of God.

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	filotheos	filotheas	filotheem	filotheois1×φιλόθεοι	filotheais	filotheeim
object accusative	filotheon	filothean		filotheoin	filotheain
direct address vocative	filotheor	filothear		filotheoir	filotheair
of, belonging to genitive	filotheou	filotheau	filotheeu	filotheoiu	filotheaiu	filotheeiu
to, for dative	filotheo	filothea	filothee	filotheoi	filotheai	filotheei

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

filothestem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

filothe 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

filotheois“lovers of god”subjectnominative plural1×

2 Timothy 3:4“lovers of god”prodotois, propetois, tufirētois, filēdonois mallon ē filotheois,traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,