ἈΓΑΠΑΝ, ἀγαπαν
AGAPAN, agapan
Sounds Like: ah-gah-PAN
Translations: to love, to like, to cherish, to be fond of
From the root: ἈΓΑΠΑΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb meaning 'to love' or 'to cherish'. It expresses a deep affection, often a selfless and unconditional love, distinct from other forms of love like 'eros' (romantic love) or 'philia' (friendship love). It can be used to describe love for God, for one's neighbor, or for good deeds.
Inflection: Present Active Infinitive
Strong’s number: G0025 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 1:4
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Smyrnaeans — 7:1
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 1:3
- Ignatius’ Letter to Polycarp — 5:1
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 39:198
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 4:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Deuteronomy — 7:8, 10:12, 10:15, 11:13, 11:22, 19:9, 30:6, 30:16, 30:20
- Joshua — 22:5, 23:11
- 2 Samuel — 19:6
- 1 Kings — 10:9
- Psalms — 108:4
- Isaiah — 56:6, 63:9
- Hosea — 10:11
- Micah — 6:8
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 1 — 1:1
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Mark — 12:33
- Romans — 13:8
- Ephesians — 5:28
- 1 Thessalonians — 4:9
- 1 Peter — 3:10
- 1 John — 4:11, 4:20
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΓΑΠΑΩ.
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.
- ἈΓΑΠΑ — loves, he loves, she loves, it loves
- ἈΓΑΠΑΤΕ — you love, you all love, love
- ἈΓΑΠΑΤΩ — let him love, let her love, let it love, let him cherish, let her cherish, let it cherish
- ἈΓΑΠΑΩ — love, cherish, desire, be fond of
- ἈΓΑΠΗΣΑΝΤΑ — having loved, who loved, one who loved
- ἈΓΑΠΗΣΑΣ — having loved, who loved, when he loved, because he loved
- ἈΓΑΠΗΣΕΙ — will love, he will love, she will love, it will love
- ἈΓΑΠΗΣΕΙΕΝ — might love, would love, should love
- ἈΓΑΠΗΣΕΙΝ — to love, to have affection for, to cherish
- ἈΓΑΠΗΣΕΙΣ — you shall love, you will love
- ἈΓΑΠΗΣΗΣ — you love, you may love, you will love
- ἈΓΑΠΗΣΟΝ — love, you shall love
- ἈΓΑΠΗΣΩ — I will love
- ἈΓΑΠΩΜΕΝΑΙ — loved, beloved, loved ones
- ἈΓΑΠΩΜΕΝΗΣ — (of) beloved, (of) loved, (of) a beloved (woman)
- ἈΓΑΠΩΜΕΝΟΝ — loved, beloved, a loved one, a beloved one
- ἈΓΑΠΩΜΕΝΟΣ — beloved, loved, dear, a beloved one
- ἈΓΑΠΩΝ — loving, one who loves, he who loves
- ἈΓΑΠΩΝΤΕΣ — loving, those who love, a lover, the ones loving
- ἈΓΑΠΩΝΤΙ — to the one loving, to the one who loves, to the loving one
- ἈΓΑΠΩΝΤΩΝ — of those loving, of those who love, of the ones loving, of the ones who love
- ἈΓΑΠΩΣΑΝ — loving, a loving one, one who loves
- ἈΓΑΠΩΣΙ — they love, who love
- ἨΓΑΠΗΚΕΙ — had loved, had cherished, had been fond of
- ἨΓΑΠΗΚΟΣΙΝ — to those who have loved, to those who love
- ἨΓΑΠΗΜΕΝΟΝ — beloved, loved, dear one, a beloved one, a beloved thing
- ἨΓΑΠΗΣΑΜΕΝ — we loved, we have loved
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