Quick Definition
φίλανδρος, ον Adj loving one’s husband
Strong's Definition
from 5384 and 435; fond of man, i.e. affectionate as a wife
KJV Usage: love their husbands
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | φιλέω + ἀνήρ
25.37 · Attitudes and Emotions · Love, Affection, Compassion
having love for one’s husband, having affection for one’s husband pertaining to having affection for a husband
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φίλανδρος, -ov, (φίλος and ἀνήρ), [fr. Aeschyl. down (in other senses) ], loving her husband: Tit. ii. 4 (φίλανSpor καὶ σώφρονες γυναῖκες, Plut. praec. conj. 6. 28).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
φίλανδρος philandros 1x
husband-loving; conjugal, Tit. 2:4*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* φίλανδρος, -ον loving men (Æsch.).
Of a wife, loving her husband (freq. in epitaphs, v. LS, s.v., Deiss., BS, 255): Tit 2:4.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φίλανδρος. iscommon in epitaphs of a wife ‘‘loving her husband ”’ (Tit 24): cf. Peg 604 (about the time of Hadrian) cited by Deissmann LAZ®, p. 314— ᾿Ιούλιος Βάσσος ᾽Οτακιλίᾳ Πώλλῃ τῇ γλυκυτάτῃ [γ]υναικί, φιλάνδρ[ῳ] καὶ φιλοτέκνῳ συνβιωσάσῃ ἀμέμπτως ἔτη λ. “Julius Bassus to Otacilia Polla, his sweetest wife. Loving her husband, and loving her children, she lived with him unblamably 30 years.”” Cf. Preisigke 330 Δίιονυσά]ριον παν[ά]ρετε φίλανδρε φιλότ[ε]κνε εὐψ[ύ]χει, and the citation from BCH xxii. s.v. φιλόσοφος : the corr. subst. occurs in Preisigke 5037 Εἰὐψύχι Tajot μητρῶον μόρον ἐκτανύσασα σωφροσύνῃ καὶ φιλανδρίᾳ.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
φίλανδρος (philandros) — husband-loving. φίλ-ανδρος, ον, loving men; of a country, loving its men, πέδον [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II. loving masculine habits, of Atalanta, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. of women, lewd, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3. loving one's husband, [NT+1st c.AD+] adverb -ρως, ἔζησε[Refs]
