φίλαυτος
phílautos · G5367 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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selfish love, self-centered love
Pertaining to self-centered love or concern for one’s own self
Examples2 Timothy 3:2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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
- ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- αὐθάδης authádēs · G829 · arrogant, self-willed
- Both denote negative self-orientation, but αὐθάδης emphasizes arrogant self-will and stubbornness, while φίλαυτος emphasizes selfish self-love and self-centeredness
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Selfish love, self-centered love25.39
- 2 Timothy 3:2 lists “lovers of self” among the marks of the last days.
Word family 37 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon φιλαυτον. (φίλος and αὐτός), loving oneself; too intent on one's own interests, selfish:…
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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