2001 Translation

PHILIAN, philian

Sounds Like: fee-LEE-ah

Translations: friendship, a friendship, affection, love

From the root: ΦΙΛΙΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the state of being friends or having a strong bond of affection. It can denote friendship, affection, or love, often implying a mutual relationship. It is used to describe the bond between people who share common interests or feelings, or a general sense of goodwill.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5373 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:228, 1:231

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 8:1, 8:11, 8:17, 10:23, 10:54, 12:1, 12:3, 12:10, 12:16, 14:18, 14:22, 15:17
• Proverbs — 15:17, 17:9
• Wisdom — 7:14
• Sirach — 6:17, 22:20, 27:18

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 17:109, 17:111, 32:291, 28:207
• Book Two — 28:207

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 18:259, 18:263
• Book 2 — 5:66, 6:128
• Book 5 — 1:51, 1:54, 1:55, 1:59
• Book 6 — 11:225
• Book 7 — 3:66, 5:107, 6:117
• Book 8 — 7:204, 12:305
• Book 11 — 8:317
• Book 12 — 6:154, 9:381, 10:414, 10:419
• Book 13 — 1:33, 2:48, 5:152, 5:153, 5:163, 5:164, 9:259, 9:264, 9:269, 12:334, 12:335
• Book 14 — 1:10, 7:122, 8:146, 8:148, 9:164, 10:185, 10:205, 10:217, 10:254, 10:267, 13:330, 15:398
• Book 15 — 5:146, 6:189, 10:343
• Book 16 — 2:60
• Book 17 — 1:7, 4:68, 10:287
• Book 18 — 4:96, 4:101, 6:143, 9:316, 9:330, 9:375
• Book 19 — 5:289

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 11:2, 15:2, 15:8, 17:16, 21:1, 26:7, 27:6, 31:4
• Book Three — 8:10

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 93:4, 139:4

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 8:30, 53:274

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 8:1, 8:12, 8:17, 10:20, 10:23, 10:54, 12:1, 12:3, 12:10, 12:16, 14:18, 14:22, 15:17
• 2 Maccabees — 6:22
• Proverbs — 15:17, 17:9
• Wisdom — 7:14
• Sirach — 6:17, 22:20, 27:18

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
• ΦΙΛΙΑΣ — of friendship, of affection, of love

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