Quick Definition
φιλία, ας, ἡ n.f. friendship
Strong's Definition
fondness
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | φιλέω
25.33 · Attitudes and Emotions · Love, Affection, Compassion
to love, to have affection for to have love or affection for someone or something based on association In a number of languages it may be difficult if not impossible to speak of ‘affection ... is hostility.’ Frequently it is necessary to relate such emotional attitudes to individuals, so that this expression in JAS 4:4 may be rendered in some languages as ‘people who love the things in the world are against God.’
See the discussion of the meaning of φιλέω[a] and φιλία in 25.43.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φιλία, -as, ἡ, (φίλος), friendship: with a gen. of the object, Jas. iv. 4. [(Theogn., Hdt., al.)]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
φιλία philia 1x
affection, fondness, love, Jas. 4:4*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
φιλία, -ας, ἡ
(< φίλος), [in LXX chiefly for אַהֲבָה ;]
friendship: c. gen. obj., Ja 4:4.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φιλία, “friendship” is Τουπᾷ πη. the NT only in Jas 44, but occurs several times in Prov and the Apocrypha. The word is opposed to ἔχθρα in P Hib I. 170? (B.c. 247) φρόντισον. ἵνα μὴ ἀντὶ φιλίας ἔχθραν [ποώ]μεθα. Other exx. are PSI IV. 415° (iii/B.c.) ὃ κομίζων σοι τὴν ἐπιστ[οἹλήν ἐστιν ἡμῖν ἐν φιλίαι, P Grenf I. 14 (Alexandrian erotic fragment—ii/B.c.) ὃ τὴν φιλίαν ἐκτικὼς ἔλαβέ pe ἔρως, ‘‘love the stablisher of friendship overcame me” (Ed.). P Tebt I. 598 (B.c. 99) ὑποδεικνυζόντοων ἣν ἔχετε πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἄνωθεν πατρικὴν φιλίαν, ‘‘intimating to me the hereditary friendship which you have for me of old ” (Edd.), BGU IV. 1141%5 (B.c. 14) κἀγὼ τὴν φιλίαν cov θέλων ἄμεμπτ[ον] ἐματὸν ἐτήρησα, P Lond 897% (A.p. 84) (= III. p- 207) elva μὴ τὴν πρός oe φιλείαν καταλείψωι, P Tebt II. 616 (ii/A.D.) évepylas καὶ σπουδῆς Kal φιλείας, P Oxy IV. 705% (A.D. 200-2) ἡ πρὸς “Pwpatovs εὔν[οι]ά te kal πίστις kal φιλία ἣν ἐνεδείξαντο, and P Fay 135} (iv/A.p.) ἐπισπούδασον πληρῶσαι ἵνα ἡ φιλία διαμίνῃ pet’ ἀλλήλων, ‘make haste to pay, in order that we may remain on good terms with each other ’’ (Edd.). Φιλία is used as a title in such passages as PSI I. 971 (vi/A.D.) ἡ ὑμ]ε[τ]έρα λαμπρὰ καὶ ἀδελφικὴ φιλία, 20. 983 φιλον(ε)ικία (vi/A.D.) ἡ πανάρετός σου φιλία, and P Amh II. 15416 (vi/vii A.D.). We may note also the adv. φιλικῶς in a closing greeting in the letter Preisigke 678215 (B.c. 259) ποιήσομεν yap φιλικῶς]. "Epp[wjoo.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
φιλία (philia) — friendship. φῐλί-α, Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, (φιλέω) affectionate regard, friendship (not in [Refs 6th c.BC+]; φιλίας, inscription on a bowl (perhaps loving-cup), [Refs], etc.; ἡ τῆς ψυχῆς φ. διὰ τὸ ἁγνὴ εἶναι, opposed to ἔρως, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἔχθρα, [NT+5th c.BC+]; opposed to μῖσος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of family affection, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ταῖς φ. in the family circle, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the regard of dependents towards their superiors, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of friendship between States, ἐχρημάτισε περὶ φιλίας τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῆς φ. ἀφέσθαι, τὴν φ. διαλύσασθαι, of communities, [Refs 5th c.BC+] distinguished by [Refs 4th c.BC+] ff.; by the Stoics, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς φ. ἰτέον, ἔρχεται, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀνανεούμενος τὴν φ. καὶ ζενίαν τὴν πρότερον ὑπάρχουσαν [Refs 6th c.BC+]; διὰ φιλίαν, see below; κατὰ φιλίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also by object. genitive, διὰ φιλίαν αὐτοῦ through friendship for him, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. ξυνετοῦ friendship with a wise man, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; so ἡμετέρη φ. friendship with us, [Refs 6th c.BC+]
2. friendliness, amiability, φ. ἄνευ τοῦ στέργειν [Refs 4th c.BC+]
3. later, of lovers, fondness, [LXX+6th c.AD+]
4. with genitive, of things, fondness, liking for, κέρδους [Refs 5th c.BC+]; [τῶν ἀρχῶν] [Refs 4th c.BC+]
5. the natural force which unites discordant elements and movements, opposed to νεῖκος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. [Refs 4th c.BC+] name for three, [Refs] (not for six, [Refs 4th c.AD+]