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Words
φιλέω G5368
- Home gloss
- hold dear; kiss (with a person, of the greeting)
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- love / love / love; kiss
- Note
- Split by construction (20, 148b): "kiss" for the act (27:26–27; Matt 26:48; Mark 14:44), "hold dear" elsewhere (John 5:20; 11:3, 36; 21:15–17). "Love" is ἀγαπάω's, so John 21:15–17 keeps its two verbs
- Rulings
- 2, 20
Occurrences (5)
- 27:4 and make me edibles such as I hold dear, and bring it to me, that I may eat; for the sake that my soul may bless you before I die."
- 27:9 And, having gone to the sheep, take for me from there two kids, tender and beautiful, and I will make them edibles for your father, such as he holds dear;
- 27:14 Now, having gone, he took and brought to the mother; and his mother made edibles even as his father held dear.
- 27:26 And Isaac his father said to him, "Draw near to me and kiss me, child."
- 27:27 And, having drawn near, he kissed him; and he smelled the odor of his cloaks, and blessed him and said,"Look, the odor of my son,like the odor of a full field that the Lord has blessed.