προσφιλής, προσφιλές (πρός and φιλέω), acceptable, pleasing (A. V. lovely): Php_4:8. (From (Aeschylus and) Herodotus down; Sir_4:7 Sir_20:13.)

προσφιλής prosphilēs 1x friendly, grateful, acceptable, Php_4:8

** προσφιλής , -ές ( < φιλέω ), [in LXX : Ezr_5:1 , Sir_4:7 ; Sir_20:13 * ;] (a) of persons, in both act, and pass . sense ( LXX , ll . c .); (b) of things, pleas\-ing, agreeable ( EV , lovely): Php_4:8 .†

προσφιλής [page 552] This Pauline word ( Php_4:8 ) = pleasing, agreeable, is used of persons in PSI IV. 361 9 (B.C. 251 0) πᾶσιν τοῖς παρ᾽ αὐ [τ ]οῦ προσφιλής εἰμι ὅσοι αὐτὸν σέβονται , and in the torn letter BGU IV. 1043 .24 (iii/A.D.) ὅλως π [ροσ ]φιλής σου γεν [όμενος (?) . . . In a letter by Plotina, the wife of the Emperor Trajan, written in A.D. 121, she describes Trajan s successor Hadrian as ἐμοὶ . . προσφιλεστάτω [ι ] κατὰ πάντα . The adj. is common in epitaphs, e.g. Kaibel 324 .9 Αὐρ [ηλ ]ί [α ] . . . προσφιλὴς χαῖρε : cf. also Vett. Val. p. 121 33 περικτήσονται καὶ προσφιλεῖς γενήσονται . For the adv. cf. OGIS 331 .9 (mid. ii/B.C.) συντετελεκότος τὰ ἱερὰ . . . ἀξίως τοῦ θεοῦ , προσφιλῶς δὲ τῶι τε ἀδελφῶι καὶ ἡμῖγ .

προσφιλής προσ-φι^λής, ές [Etym: φιλέω] "dear, beloved", τῶν ἡλίκων προσφιλεστάτῳ Hdt. ; προσφιλέες τῷ βασιλέϊ "dear or friendly to" him, id=Hdt. ;—of things, "pleasing, agreeable, grateful, dear", Lat. gratus, Aesch. , Soph. act., of persons, "kindly affectioned, grateful, well-disposed", Soph. , Thuc. :—adv. -λῶς, "kindly", Soph. ; πρ. ἔχειν τινί to be "kindly affectioned" to one, Xen.

προσφιλής, -ές (φιλέω), [in LXX: Est.5:1, Sir.4:7 20:13 * ;] __(a) of persons, in both act, and pass. sense (LXX, ll. with); __(b) of things, pleas­ing, agreeable (EV, lovely): Php.4:8.† (AS)