προσφιλής
prosphilḗs · G4375 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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pleasing, lovely
Pertaining to that which causes people to be pleased with something
ExamplesPhilippians 4:8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὅσοςas many as, as much as 1
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Near synonyms 3 words
- ἀρεστός arestós · G701 · pleasing, proper, right
- ἀρεστός shares the core sense of 'pleasing' or 'acceptable' with προσφιλής. Both describe what is favorably received or viewed, though ἀρεστός more commonly emphasizes conformity to expectation or pleasure, while προσφιλής emphasizes friendliness or affability.
- εὐπρόσδεκτος euprósdektos · G2144 · very acceptable, quite pleasing, truly favorable
- εὐπρόσδεκτος denotes what is well-received or acceptable, directly overlapping with the 'acceptable' sense of προσφιλής. Both terms describe what meets with favorable reception.
- ἀπόδεκτος apódektos · G587 · pleasing, acceptable
- ἀποδεκτός shares the core meaning of 'acceptable' or 'agreeable' with προσφιλής. Both describe what is favorably received or pleasing to others.
In the other Testament 1 word
- חֵן chên · H2580 · beauty, elegance, charm
- חֵן (chen) denotes the quality of being acceptable, favorable, or pleasing, which closely parallels the sense of προσφιλής as 'acceptable' or 'pleasing.' Both terms describe what is favorably received or viewed.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Pleasing, lovely25.97
- The adjective describes what is agreeable and attractive to contemplate. Paul's closing exhortation to the Philippians uses this term: “whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, think about these things” (Philippians 4:8).
Word family 37 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon προσφιλές (πρός and φιλέω), acceptable, pleasing (A. V. lovely): Phm 4:8. (From…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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