prosfilem

Strong’sG4375

pleasing, acceptable

stem prosfil-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.

** προσφιλής, -ές

(< φιλέω), [in LXX: Es 5:1, Si 4:7 20:13*;]

(a) of persons, in both act. and pass. sense (LXX, Es 5:1, Si 4:7 20:13);

(b) of things, pleasing, agreeable (EV, lovely): Phl 4:8.†

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

Strong’s G4375 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpros-fee-lace'

friendly towards, i.e. acceptable

Fromfrom a presumed compound of G4314 and G5368;

King Jameslovely.

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

προσφιλ-ής, ές,
(φιλέω) dear, beloved, τῶν ἡλίκων.. προσφιλεστάτῳ Refs 5th c.BC+: with dative, dear or friendly to.. , Refs 5th c.BC+: of things, pleasing, agreeable, ἔργον θεοῖσι π. Refs 4th c.BC+; στολή, χάρις, Refs 5th c.BC+; πάσαις ἡλικίαις.. ἡ χρῆσις αὐτῆς (i.e. τῆς μουσικῆς) ἐστὶ π. Refs 4th c.BC+; also of actions, lovely, ὅσα π. NT adverb -λῶς agreeably, with dative, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II active, of persons, kindly affectioned, well-disposed, ὥς μ᾽ ἔθεσθε προσφιλῆ Refs 5th c.BC+ adverb -λῶς kindly, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἡμῖν ἔχειν to be kindly affectioned to us, Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative -έστερονRefs 5th c.BC+: superlative -έσταταRefs 5th c.BC+, -εστάτως 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.

lovely1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	prosfilos	prosfilas	prosfilem	prosfilois	prosfilais	prosfileim1×προσφιλῆ
object accusative	prosfilon	prosfilan		prosfiloin	prosfilain
direct address vocative	prosfilor	prosfilar		prosfiloir	prosfilair
of, belonging to genitive	prosfilou	prosfilau	prosfileu	prosfiloiu	prosfilaiu	prosfileiu
to, for dative	prosfilo	prosfila	prosfile	prosfiloi	prosfilai	prosfilei

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

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

prosfil 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

prosfileim“lovely”subject or objectdirect plural1×

Philippians 4:8… semneim, hoseim dikaieim, hoseim hagneim, hoseim prosfileim, hoseim eufēmeim, ei tinas aretas kai …… right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is …