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ἀγάπη
Transliteration
agapē (Key)
Pronunciation
ag-ah'-pay
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:21,5

Strong’s Definitions

ἀγάπη agápē, ag-ah'-pay; from G25; love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast:—(feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 117x

The KJV translates Strong's G26 in the following manner: love (86x), charity (28x), dear (1x), charitably (with G2596) (1x), feasts of charity (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 117x
The KJV translates Strong's G26 in the following manner: love (86x), charity (28x), dear (1x), charitably (with G2596) (1x), feasts of charity (1x).
  1. affection, good will, love, benevolence, brotherly love

  2. love feasts

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀγάπη agápē, ag-ah'-pay; from G25; love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast:—(feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love.
STRONGS G26:
ἀγάπη, -ης, , a purely Biblical and ecclesiastical word (for Wyttenbach, following Reiske's conjecture, long ago restored ἀγαπήσων in place of ἀγάπης, ὧν in Plutarch, sympos. quaestt. 7, 6, 3 [vol. viii., p. 835, Reiske edition]). Secular authors from [Aristotle], Plutarch on used ἀγάπησις. "The Sept. use ἀγάπη for אַהֲבָה, Song of Solomon 2:4, 5, 7; Song of Solomon 3:5, 10; Song of Solomon 5:8; Song of Solomon 7:6; Song of Solomon 8:4, 6, 7; ["It is noticeable that the word first makes its appearance as a current term in the Song of Solomon; — certainly no undesigned evidence respecting the idea which the Alexandrian LXX translators had of the love in this Song" (Zezschwitz, Profangraec. u. Biblical Sprachgeist, p. 63)]; Jeremiah 2:2; Ecclesiastes 9:1, 6; [2 Samuel 13:15]. It occurs besides in Wis. 3:9 Wis. 6:19. In Philo and Josephus, I do not remember to have met with it. Nor is it found in the N. T. in Acts, Mark, or James; it occurs only once in Matthew and Luke, twice in Hebrews and Revelation, but frequently in the writings of Paul, John, Peter, Jude" (Bretschn. Lex. under the word); [Philo, deus immut. § 14].
In signification it follows the verb ἀγαπάω; consequently it denotes
1. affection, good-will, love, benevolence: John 15:13; Romans 13:10; 1 John 4:18. Of the love of men to men; especially of that love of Christians toward Christians which is enjoined and prompted by their religion, whether the love be viewed as in the soul or as expressed: Matthew 24:12; 1 Corinthians 13:1-4, 8; 1 Corinthians 14:1; 2 Corinthians 2:4; Galatians 5:6; Philemon 1:5, 7; 1 Timothy 1:5; Hebrews 6:10; Hebrews 10:24; John 13:35; 1 John 4:7; Revelation 2:4, 19, etc. Of the love of men toward God: ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ; (obj. genitive [Winer's Grammar, 185 (175)]. See Westcott, Epp. of St. John, p. 48f), Luke 11:42; John 5:42; 1 John 2:15 (τοῦ πατρός); 1 John 3:17; 4:12; 5:3. Of the love of God toward men: Romans 5:8; Romans 8:39; 2 Corinthians 13:13 (14). Of the love of God toward Christ: John 15:10; John 17:26. Of the love of Christ toward men: John 15:9f; 2 Corinthians 5:14; Romans 8:35; Ephesians 3:19. In construction: ἀγάπην εἰς τινα, 2 Corinthians 2:8 [?]; Ephesians 1:15 [L WH omit Tr marginal reading brackets τήν ἀγάπην]; τῇ ἐξ ὑμῶν ἐν ἡμῖν i. e. love going forth from your soul and taking up its abode as it were in ours, equivalent to your love to us, 2 Corinthians 8:7 [Winers Grammar, 193 (181f); B. 329 (283)]; μεθ' ὑμῶν i. e. is present with (embraces) you, 1 Corinthians 16:24; μεθ' ἡμῶν i. e. seen among us, 1 John 4:17. Phrases: ἔχειν ἀγάπην εἰς τινα, 2 Corinthians 2:4; Colossians 1:4 [L T Tr, but WH brackets]; 1 Peter 4:8; ἀγάπην διδόναι to give a proof of love, 1 John 3:1; ἀγαπᾶν ἀγάπην τινα, John 17:26; Ephesians 2:4 (see in ἀγαπάω, under the end); ἀγάπης τοῦ πνεύματος, i. e. enkindled by the Holy Spirit, Romans 15:30; υἱός τῆς ἀγάπης the Son who is the object of love, equivalent to ἀγαπητός, Colossians 1:13 (Winers Grammar, 237 (222); [Buttmann, 162 (141)]); Θεός τῆς ἀγάπης the author of love, 2 Corinthians 13:11; κόπος τῆς ἀγάπης troublesome service, toil, undertaken from love, 1 Thessalonians 1:3; ἀγάπην τῆς ἀληθείας love which embraces the truth, 2 Thessalonians 2:10; Θεός ἀγάπη ἐστιν God is wholly love, his nature is summed up in love, 1 John 4:8, 16; φίλημα ἀγάπης a kiss as a sign among Christians of mutual affection, 1 Peter 5:14; διά τήν ἀγάπην that love may have opportunity of influencing thee ('in order to give scope to the power of love,' DeWette, Wies.), Philemon 1:9, cf. Philemon 1:14; ἐν ἀγάπη lovingly, in an affectionate spirit, 1 Corinthians 4:21; on love as a basis [others, in love as the sphere or element], Ephesians 4:15 (where ἐν ἀγάπη is to be connected not with ἀληθεύοντες but with αὐξήσωμεν), Ephesians 4:16; ἐξ ἀγάπης influenced by love, Philippians 1:17 (16); κατά ἀγάπην in a manner befitting love, Romans 14:15. Love is mentioned together with faith and hope in 1 Corinthians 13:13; 1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:8;Colossians 1:4; Hebrews 10:22-24. On the words ἀγάπη, ἀγαπᾶν, cf. Gelpke in the Studien und Kritiken for 1849, p. 646f; on the idea and nature of Christian love see Köstlin, Lehrbgr. des Ev. Joh. etc., p. 248ff, 332ff; Rückert, Theologie, ii. 452ff; Lipsius, Paulin. Reehtfertigungsl., p. 188ff; [Reuss, Theol. Chret. livr. vii. chap. 13].
2. plural, ἀγαπαι, -ῶν, agapae, love-feasts, feasts expressing and fostering mutual love which used to be held by Christians before the celebration of the Lord's supper, and at which the poorer Christians mingled with the wealthier and partook in common with the rest of food provided at the expense of the wealthy: Jude 1:12 (and in 2 Peter 2:13 L Tr text WH marginal reading), cf. 1 Corinthians 11:17ff; Acts 2:42, 46; Acts 20:7; Tertullian, Apology c. 39, and ad Martyr. c, 3; Cypr. ad Quirin. 3, 3; Drescher, De vet. christ. Agapis. Giess. 1824; Mangold in Schenkel i. 53f; [B. D. under the word Love-Feasts; Dict. of Christ. Antiq. under the word Agapae; more fully in McClintock and Strong, under the word Agape].
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Samuel
13:15
Ecclesiastes
9:1; 9:6
Song of Songs
2:4; 2:5; 2:7; 3:5; 3:10; 5:8; 7:6; 8:4; 8:6; 8:7
Jeremiah
2:2
Matthew
24:12
Luke
11:42
John
5:42; 13:35; 15:9; 15:10; 15:13; 17:26; 17:26
Acts
2:42; 2:46; 20:7
Romans
5:8; 8:35; 8:39; 13:10; 14:15; 15:30
1 Corinthians
4:21; 11:17; 13:1; 13:2; 13:3; 13:4; 13:8; 13:13; 14:1; 16:24
2 Corinthians
2:4; 2:4; 2:8; 5:14; 8:7; 13:11; 13:13
Galatians
5:6
Ephesians
1:15; 2:4; 3:19; 4:15; 4:16
Philippians
1:17 (16)
Colossians
1:4; 1:4; 1:13
1 Thessalonians
1:3; 1:3; 5:8
2 Thessalonians
2:10
1 Timothy
1:5
Philemon
1:5; 1:7; 1:9; 1:14
Hebrews
6:10; 10:22; 10:23; 10:24; 10:24
1 Peter
4:8; 5:14
2 Peter
2:13
1 John
2:15; 3:1; 3:17; 4:7; 4:8; 4:12; 4:16; 4:17; 4:18; 5:3
Jude
1:12
Revelation
2:4; 2:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G26 matches the Greek ἀγάπη (agapē),
which occurs 116 times in 106 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Mat 24:12–Phl 1:9)

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:12 - And because iniquity shall abound, the love G26 of many shall wax cold.
Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:42 - But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love G26 of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:42 - But I know you, that ye have not the love G26 of God in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:35 - By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love G26 one to another.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:9 - As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. G26
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:10 - If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; G26 even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. G26
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:13 - Greater love G26 hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:26 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love G26 wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:5 - And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love G26 of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 5:8 - But God commendeth his love G26 toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:35 - Who shall separate us from the love G26 of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:39 - Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love G26 of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 12:9 - Let love G26 be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:10 - Love G26 worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love G26 is the fulfilling of the law.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:15 - But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. G26 Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:30 - Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love G26 of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:21 - What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, G26 and in the spirit of meekness?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:1 - Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity G26 edifieth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:1 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, G26 I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:2 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, G26 I am nothing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:3 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, G26 it profiteth me nothing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:4 - Charity G26 suffereth long, and is kind; charity G26 envieth not; charity G26 vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:8 - Charity G26 never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:13 - And now abideth faith, hope, charity, G26 these three; but the greatest of these is charity. G26
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:1 - Follow after charity, G26 and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:14 - Let all your things be done with charity. G26
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:24 - My love G26 be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:4 - For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love G26 which I have more abundantly unto you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:8 - Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love G26 toward him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 5:14 - For the love G26 of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:6 - By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love G26 unfeigned,
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:7 - Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love G26 to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:8 - I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. G26
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:24 - Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, G26 and of our boasting on your behalf.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:11 - Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love G26 and peace shall be with you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:14 - The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love G26 of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:6 - For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. G26
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:13 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love G26 serve one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:22 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, G26 joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:4 - According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: G26
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:15 - Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love G26 unto all the saints,
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:4 - But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love G26 wherewith he loved us,
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:17 - That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, G26
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:19 - And to know the love G26 of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:2 - With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; G26
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:15 - But speaking the truth in love, G26 may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:16 - From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. G26
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:2 - And walk in love, G26 as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:23 - Peace be to the brethren, and love G26 with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:9 - And this I pray, that your love G26 may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

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