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Lexicon :: Strong's G25 - agapaō

Aa
ἀγαπάω
Transliteration
agapaō (Key)
Pronunciation
ag-ap-ah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps from agan (much) [or cf φιλέω (G5368)]
mGNT
143x in 39 unique form(s) TR
142x in 40 unique form(s) LXX
215x in 55 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:21,5

Trench's Synonyms: xii. ἀγαπάω, φιλέω.

Strong’s Definitions

ἀγαπάω agapáō, ag-ap-ah'-o; perhaps from ἄγαν ágan (much) (or compare H5689); to love (in a social or moral sense):—(be-)love(-ed). Compare G5368.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 142x

The KJV translates Strong's G25 in the following manner: love (135x), beloved (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 142x
The KJV translates Strong's G25 in the following manner: love (135x), beloved (7x).

  1. of persons

    1. to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly

  2. of things

    1. to be well pleased, to be contented at or with a thing

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀγαπάω agapáō, ag-ap-ah'-o; perhaps from ἄγαν ágan (much) (or compare H5689); to love (in a social or moral sense):—(be-)love(-ed). Compare G5368.
STRONGS G25:
ἀγαπάω, -ῶ; [imperfect ἠγάπων]; future ἀγαπήσω; 1 aorist ἠγάπησα; perfect active [1 person plural ἠγαπήκαμεν, 1 John 4:10 WH text], participle ἠγαπηκώς (2 Timothy 4:8); passive [present ἀγαπῶμαι]; perfect participle ἠγαπημένος; 1 future ἀγαπηθήσομαι; (akin to ἄγαμαι [Fick, Part 4:12; see ἀγαθός, at the beginning]); to love, to be full of good-will and exhibit the same: Luke 7:47; 1 John 4:7f; with the accusative of the person, to have a preference for, wish well to, regard the welfare of: Matthew 5:43ff; Matthew 19:19; Luke 7:5; John 11:5; Romans 13:8; 2 Corinthians 11:11; 2 Corinthians 12:15; Galatians 5:14; Ephesians 5:25, 28; 1 Peter 1:22, and elsewhere; used often in the First Epistle of John of the love of Christians toward one another; of the benevolence which God, in providing salvation for men, has exhibited by sending his Son to them and giving him up to death, John 3:16; Romans 8:37; 2 Thessalonians 2:16; 1 John 4:11, 19; [noteworthy is Jude 1:1 L T Tr WH τοῖς ἐν Θεῷ πατρί ἠγαπημένοις; see ἐν, I. 4, and cf. Bp. Lightfoot on Colossians 3:12]; of the love which led Christ, in procuring human salvation, to undergo sufferings and death, Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 5:2; of the love with which God regards Christ, John 3:35; [John 3:20 L marginal reading]; John 10:17; 15:9; Ephesians 1:6. When used of love to a master, God or Christ, the word involves the idea of affectionate reverence, prompt obedience, grateful recognition of benefits received: Matthew 6:24; Matthew 22:37; Romans 8:28; 1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 8:3; James 1:12; 1 Peter 1:8; 1 John 4:10, 20, and elsewhere. With an accusative of the thing ἀγαπάω denotes to take pleasure in the thing, prize it above other things, be unwilling to abandon it or do without it: δικαιοσύνην, Hebrews 1:9 (i. e. steadfastly to cleave to); τήν δόξαν, John 12:43; τήν πρωτοκαθεδρίαν, Luke 11:43; τό σκότος; and τό φῶς, John 3:19; τόν κόσμον. 1 John 2:15; τόν νῦν αἰῶνα, 2 Timothy 4:10, — both which last phrases signify to set the heart on earthly advantages and joys; τήν ψυχήν αὐτῶν, Revelation 12:11; ζωήν, 1 Peter 3:10 (to derive pleasure from life, render it agreeable to himself); to welcome with desire, long for: τήν ἐπιφάνειαν αὐτοῦ, 2 Timothy 4:8 (Wis. 1:1 Wis. 6:13; Sir. 4:12, etc.; so of a person: ἠγαπήθη, Wis. 4:10, cf. Grimm at the passage). Concerning the unique proof of love which Jesus gave the apostles by washing their feet, it is said ἠγάπησεν αὐτούς, John 13:1, cf. Lücke or Meyer at the passage (but others take ήγάπ. here more comprehensively, see Weiss's Meyer, Godet, Westcott, Keil]. The combination ἀγάπην ἀγαπᾶν τινα occurs, when a relative intervenes, in John 17:26; Ephesians 2:4 (2 Samuel 13:15 where τό μῖσος ὁ ἐμίσησεν αὐτήν is contrasted; cf. Genesis 49:25 εὐλόγησε σε εὐλογίαν; Psalms of Solomon 17:35 [in manuscript Pseudepig. Vet. Test. edition Fabric. i., p. 966; Libri Apocr. etc., edition Fritzsche, p. 588] δόξαν ἥν ἐδόξασεν αὐτήν); cf. Winers Grammar, § 32, 2; [Buttmann, 148f (129)]; Grimm on 1 Macc. 2:54.
On the difference between ἀγαπάω and φιλέω, see φιλέω. Cf. ἀγάπη, 1 at the end.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
49:25
2 Samuel
13:15
Matthew
5:43; 6:24; 19:19; 22:37
Luke
7:5; 7:47; 11:43
John
3:16; 3:19; 3:20; 3:35; 10:17; 11:5; 12:43; 13:1; 15:9; 17:26
Romans
8:28; 8:37; 13:8
1 Corinthians
2:9; 8:3
2 Corinthians
11:11; 12:15
Galatians
2:20; 5:14
Ephesians
1:6; 2:4; 5:2; 5:25; 5:28
Colossians
3:12
2 Thessalonians
2:16
2 Timothy
4:8; 4:8; 4:10
Hebrews
1:9
James
1:12
1 Peter
1:8; 1:22; 3:10
1 John
2:15; 4:7; 4:10; 4:10; 4:11; 4:19; 4:20
Jude
1:1
Revelation
12:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G25 matches the Greek ἀγαπάω (agapaō),
which occurs 142 times in 109 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Mat 5:43–Rom 9:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:43 - “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor[fn] and hate your enemy.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:44 - “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:46 - “For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:24 - “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:19 - ‘Honor your father and your mother,’[fn] and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:37

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:37 - Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:39

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:39 - “And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:21 - Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:30 - ‘And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’[fn] This is the first commandment.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:31

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:31 - “And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’[fn] There is no other commandment greater than these.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:33 - “And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul,[fn] and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:27 - “But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:32 - “But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:35 - “But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:5 - “for he loves our nation, and has built us a synagogue.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:42 - “And when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will love him more?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:47 - “Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 10:27 - So he answered and said, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’[fn] and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:43 - “Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 16:13 - “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:16 - “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:19 - “And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:35 - “The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:42

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:42 - Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:17 - “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:5 - Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:43 - for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:1 - Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:23 - Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 13:34 - “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:15 - “If you love Me, keep[fn] My commandments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:21 - “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:23 - Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:24 - “He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:28 - “You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said,[fn] ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:31 - “But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:9 - “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:12 - “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:17 - “These things I command you, that you love one another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:23 - “I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:24 - “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:26 - “And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:26 - When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing by, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold your son!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:7 - Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it), and plunged into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:15 - So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah,[fn] do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Feed My lambs.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:16 - He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah,[fn] do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:20 - Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:37

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:37 - Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:13 - As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”[fn]

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