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G5362 φίλανδρος (phílandros)
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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

TIT 2:4

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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]

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