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Strong's #5358 - φιλάγαθος
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- loving goodness
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φῐλᾰγᾰθ-ος, ον,
loving goodness, Arist. MM 1212b18, LXX Wi. 7.22, Scymn. 104, Ph. 2.136, Plu. Comp.Thes. Romans 1:1-32, Wilcken Chr. 20 ii 11 (ii A. D.); as honorary epithet in inscrr. of religious associations, etc., IG 22.1326.8, etc.; so in Adv. -θως ib.12(5).860.6 (Tenos), SIG 762.13 (Odessus, i B. C.), prob. in Supp.Epigr. 2.485 (Panticapaeum, iii A. D.).
φιλάγαθος, φιλάγαθον (from φίλος and ἀγαθός), loving goodness: Titus 1:8. (Sap. vii. 22; Plutarch, praec. conjug. c. 17; also compound Thes. c. Rom c. 2; (φιλάγαθος οὐ φίλαυτος, Aristotle, magn. mor. ii. 14, p. 1212b 18; Polybius 6, 53, 9; Philo de vit. Moys. ii., § 2).)
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**φιλ -άγαθος , -ον ,
[in LXX: Wisdom of Solomon 7:22*;]
loving that which is good, loving goodness: Titus 1:8 (Arist., Polyb., a l.).†
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";a luminary"; (Php. 2:15, Rev. 21:11 : cf. Gen. 1:16) : cf. P Leid Wvii. 35 (ii/iii A.D.) (=11. p. 105) δόξα τοῦ ἐντίμου φωστῆρος, Wünsch AF p. 23.23 (iii/A.D.) ὁρκίζω σε τὸν φωστῆρα καὶ ἄστρα ἐν οὐρανῷ ποιήσαντα, and Vett. Val. p. 110.22 περὶ τοὺς φωστῆρας ἀδικούμενοι, where the editor understands φωστῆρες as = ";oculi.";
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