noun · masculine
theofilos
Strong’sG2321
Theophilus
stem theofil-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
Θεόφιλος, -ου
(θεός, φίλος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2321 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(θεός, φίλος),
Theophilus:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | theofilos | theofilois |
| object accusative | theofilon | theofiloin |
| direct address vocative | theofilor2×Θεόφιλε | theofiloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | theofilou | theofiloiu |
| to, for dative | theofilo | theofiloi |
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
theofilo 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
theofilor“Theophilus”direct addressvocative singular2×
Luke 1:3… pantei akribōs kathexēs si grafara, kratistor Theofilor,… orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
Acts 1:1… prōton logon poiema peri panteiu, ō Theofilor, heiu archeta tos Iēsus poiarō tē …In my first book, O Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus …