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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 2 / 3 (Rom 9:25–1Jo 4:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:25 - As He says also in Hosea:

“I will call them My people, who were not My people,
And her beloved, who was not beloved.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:8 - Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:9 - For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,”[fn] “You shall not covet,”[fn] and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:9 - But as it is written:

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:3 - But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:7 - So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:11 - Why? Because I do not love you? God knows!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:15 - And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:20 - “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:14 - For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:6 - to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:4 - But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:2 - And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:25 - Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:28 - So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:33 - Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 6:24 - Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:12 - Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 3:19 - Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:4 - knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:9 - But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:13 - But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Th 2:16 - Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:8 - Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:10 - for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica—Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 1:9 - You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:6 - For whom the LORD loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:12 - Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:5 - Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:8 - If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,”[fn] you do well;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:8 - whom having not seen[fn] you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:22 - Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit[fn] in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:17 - Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 3:10 - For

“He who would love life
And see good days,
Let him refrain his tongue from evil,
And his lips from speaking deceit.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:15 - They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:10 - He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:15 - Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:10 - In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:11 - For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:14 - We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother[fn] abides in death.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:18 - My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:23 - And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us[fn] commandment.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:7 - Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:8 - He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:10 - In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:11 - Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:12 - No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:19 - We love Him[fn] because He first loved us.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:20 - If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can[fn] he love God whom he has not seen?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:21 - And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

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