ΦΙΛΟΣΤΟΡΓΟΣ, φιλοστοργος
PHILOSTORGOS, philostorgos
Sounds Like: fee-los-TOR-gos
Translations: loving, tenderly affectionate, devoted, a loving, a tenderly affectionate, a devoted
From the root: ΦΙΛΟΣΤΟΡΓΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This is a compound word formed from 'philos' (loving, dear) and 'storge' (natural affection, especially of parents for children). It describes someone who is deeply and tenderly affectionate, often implying a natural, familial kind of love or devotion. It can be used to describe a person who shows strong affection towards others, such as family members or close friends.
Inflection: Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter; Nominative, Accusative, or Vocative; Singular or Plural
Strong’s number: G5387 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:18
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 7 — 10:252
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΙΛΟΣΤΟΡΓΟΣ.
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.
- ΦΙΛΟΣΤΟΡΓΕ — loving dearly, tenderly affectionate, devoted, a devoted one
- ΦΙΛΟΣΤΟΡΓΟΙ — warmly loving, devoted, affectionate, tenderly affectionate
- ΦΙΛΟΣΤΟΡΓΟΝ — fondly affectionate, tenderly loving, devoted, a fondly affectionate thing
- ΦΙΛΟΣΤΟΡΓΟΤΑΤΟΣ — most loving, most affectionate, a most loving one, a most affectionate one
- ΦΙΛΟΣΤΟΡΓΟΥ — of affectionate, of dearly loving, of tenderly loving, of devoted, of kindly
- ΦΙΛΟΣΤΟΡΓΟΥΝΤΑΣ — loving warmly, tenderly affectionate, devoted, a warmly loving one, a tenderly affectionate one, a devoted one
- ΦΙΛΟΣΤΟΡΓΩΣ — affectionately, tenderly, lovingly, with brotherly love
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