What does φιλανθρωπία (philanthrōpía) mean in the Bible?
φιλανθρωπία (philanthrōpía): Humane kindness toward others, often describing God's merciful benevolence revealed in practical compassion.
Greek · G5363
φιλανθρωπία
Benevolence
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φιλανθρωπία G5363
Pronunciation philanthrōpía
What does φιλανθρωπία (philanthrōpía) mean in the Bible?
φιλανθρωπία (philanthrōpía): Humane kindness toward others, often describing God's merciful benevolence revealed in practical compassion.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G5363?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include kindness (1), love for mankind (1).
Where does φιλανθρωπία (philanthrōpía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 28:2. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (1), Titus (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It kindness 1× Acts 28:2
love for mankind 1× Titus 3:4
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Acts 28:2
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 2
Acts 1 Titus 1
Source forms
φιλανθρωπία 1x philanthrōpia Titus 3:4
φιλανθρωπίαν 1x philanthrōpian Acts 28:2
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Acts 28:2
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x Titus 3:4
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Humane kindness toward others, often describing God's merciful benevolence revealed in practical compassion.
Strong's G5363
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Acts 28:1-10 Source Gloss
benevolence
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Humane kindness toward others, often describing God's merciful benevolence revealed in practical compassion.
(φιλάνθρωπος, humane), [in LXX: Est.8:13, 2Ma.6:22 2Mac 14:9, 3Ma.3:15 3Mac 3:18 * ;] humanity, kindness (see Field, Notes, 147 f.): Act.28:2, Tit.3:4 (cf. also DCG, ii, 356 ff.).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 28:2 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
φιλανθρωπίαν filanqrwpian
love of mankind, benevolence
Read verse Titus 3:4 Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
φιλανθρωπία filanqrwpia
love of mankind, benevolence
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Accusative (1) Number pattern Singular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Titus 3:4 1×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Acts 28:2 1×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
New Testament Witnesses
Love of humanity or kindness.
Compassionate concern for people.
Word Origins
φιλανθρωπία is built from this root:
Why This Word Matters
Salvation originates in God’s compassionate love toward undeserving sinners. Acts 28:1-10
Highlights gracious reception by the islanders. Titus 3:1-7
Canonical Themes
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain