What does φιλία (philía) mean in the Bible?
φιλία (philía): Friendship as relational bond; in James, worldly friendship stands opposed to covenant love for God.
Greek · G5373
φιλία
Fondness
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φιλίαG5373
Pronunciationphilía
What does φιλία (philía) mean in the Bible?
φιλία (philía): Friendship as relational bond; in James, worldly friendship stands opposed to covenant love for God.
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How does the BSB render G5373?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include friendship (1).
Where does φιλία (philía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at James 4:4. Its strongest book concentrations include James (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 Itfriendship1×James 4:4
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First aligned rowJames 4:4
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
James1
Source forms
φιλία1xphiliaJames 4:4
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular1xJames 4:4
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Friendship as relational bond; in James, worldly friendship stands opposed to covenant love for God.
Strong'sG5373
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
fondness
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Friendship as relational bond; in James, worldly friendship stands opposed to covenant love for God.
(φίλος), [in LXX chiefly for אַהֲבָה ;] friendship: with genitive obj., Jas.4:4.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
James 4:4Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
φιλίαfilia
friendship
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 patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternNominative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · FeminineJas 4:41×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Witnesses
Luke 23:6–12φιλίαphilía
Friendship
Word Origins
φιλία is built from this root: