What does φιλανθρώπως (philanthrṓpōs) mean in the Bible?
φιλανθρώπως (philanthrṓpōs): Benevolent, humane treatment directed toward people; kindness expressing regard for human dignity.
Greek · G5364
φιλανθρώπως
Benevolently
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φιλανθρώπως G5364
Pronunciation philanthrṓpōs
What does φιλανθρώπως (philanthrṓpōs) mean in the Bible?
φιλανθρώπως (philanthrṓpōs): Benevolent, humane treatment directed toward people; kindness expressing regard for human dignity.
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How does the BSB render G5364?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include with consideration (1).
Where does φιλανθρώπως (philanthrṓpōs) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 27:3. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (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 with consideration 1× Acts 27:3
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First aligned row Acts 27:3
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
Acts 1
Source forms
φιλανθρώπως 1x philanthrōpōs Acts 27:3
Parsing patterns
Adverb 1x Acts 27:3
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Benevolent, humane treatment directed toward people; kindness expressing regard for human dignity.
Strong's G5364
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
benevolently
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Benevolent, humane treatment directed toward people; kindness expressing regard for human dignity.
adv., [in LXX: 2Ma.9:27, 3Ma.3:20 * ;] humanely, kindly: Act.27:3.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 27:3 Adverb
φιλανθρώπως filanqrwpwv
humanely, kindly
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 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 1 Aligned forms 1
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Acts 27:3 1×
Word Origins
φιλανθρώπως is built from these roots:
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