2001 Translation

PHILIAS, philias

Sounds Like: fee-LEE-as

Translations: of friendship, of affection, of love

From the root: ΦΙΛΙΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the bond of friendship, affection, or love between individuals. It describes a close relationship characterized by mutual regard and goodwill. In a sentence, it would typically indicate the nature of a relationship or the quality of affection, often appearing in a genitive construction to show possession or origin, such as 'the bond of friendship'.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5373 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:40, 1:44, 1:225

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 10:20, 12:8
• 4 Maccabees — 2:11, 2:12, 8:5
• Proverbs — 5:19, 7:18, 19:7, 27:5

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 29:272

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 18:263
• Book 4 — 6:102
• Book 7 — 5:111
• Book 12 — 3:153, 10:394
• Book 13 — 1:32, 2:45, 5:165, 5:170, 7:110, 7:223, 9:261
• Book 14 — 10:197, 10:257, 10:266
• Book 15 — 6:162, 6:183, 6:193, 10:361
• Book 16 — 2:56
• Book 18 — 2:36, 6:154, 6:164, 6:168
• Book 19 — 2:203, 7:317
• Book 20 — 1:13, 10:236

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 15:1, 21:6
• Book Seven — 7:21

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 3:16, 14:79

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 12:8
• 2 Maccabees — 4:11
• 4 Maccabees — 2:11, 2:12, 8:6
• Proverbs — 5:19, 7:18, 19:4, 27:5

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΙΛΙΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΦΙΛΙΑ — friendship, a friendship, love, a love, affection, an affection
• ΦΙΛΙΑΙΣ — to friendship, to a friendship, to love, to a love, to affection, to an affection
• ΦΙΛΙΑΝ — friendship, a friendship, affection, love

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