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Lover:
luv'-er ('ohebh, ‘ahebh): In the Old Testament ‘ohebh, from ‘ahebh, "to love," is sometimes "lover" in the sense of "friend," in the older English sense of the word (1Ki 5:1, "Hiram was ever a lover of David"; Ps 38:11; 88:18; La 1:2); more frequently it has the meaning of "lover" in the special sense, sometimes in the evil sense of the word (Jer 22:20,22; 30:14; Eze 16:33,36 f, etc.; Ho 2:5,7,10, etc.); ‘aghabh, "to love" (Jer 4:30), rea‘, "companion" (Jer 3:1), and ahabhim, "loves" (Ho 8:9), are also translated "lovers" in this sense.
In the New Testament the simple word "lover" does not occur, but we have various compound words, philotheos "lover of God" (2Ti 3:4); philagathos, "lover of good," and philoxenos, "lover of hospitality" (Tit 1:8); philautos, "lover of self" (2Ti 3:2); philedonos, "lover of pleasure" (2Ti 3:4).
In the Revised Version (British and American) we have, for "a lover of hospitality" (Tit 1:8), "given to"; for "covetous" (Lu 16:14; 2Ti 3:2), "lovers of money"; for "not covetous" (1Ti 3:3), "no lover of money"; for "despisers of them that are good" (2Ti 3:3), "no lovers of good."
Written by W. L. Walker
Lover:
This is combined with other words, forming compound adjectives as follows:
| 1 | Strong's Number: g5377 | Greek: philotheos |
Lover:
"a lover of God," 2Ti 3:4.
| 2 | Strong's Number: g5382 | Greek: philoxenos |
Lover:
"loving strangers" (xenia, "hospitality"), translated "a lover of hospitality" in Tts 1:8, AV (RV, "given to h."); elsewhere, in 1Ti 3:2; 1Pe 4:9.
See HOSPITALITY.
| 3 | Strong's Number: g5358 | Greek: philagathos |
Lover:
"loving that which is good" (agathos), Tts 1:8, "a lover of good," RV.
Note: The negative aphilagathos is found in 2Ti 3:3, "no lovers of good."
| 4 | Strong's Number: g5366 | Greek: philarguros |
Lover:
"loving money" (arguros, "silver"), translated "lovers of money" in Luk 16:14; 2Ti 3:2, RV (AV, "covetous").
See COVETOUS.
| 5 | Strong's Number: g5367 | Greek: philautos |
Lover:
"loving oneself," 2Ti 3:2, RV.
| 6 | Strong's Number: g5369 | Greek: philedonos |
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