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G865 ἀφιλάγαθος (aphilágathos)
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Quick Definition

ἀφιλάγαθος, ον Adj not loving that which is good

Strong's Definition

from 1 (as a negative particle) and 5358; hostile to virtue

KJV Usage: despiser of those that are good

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

adjc. | -ον | ἀ- + φιλέω + ἀγαθός

25.106 · Attitudes and Emotions · Enjoy, Take Pleasure In, Be Fond of Doing

not loving what is good, being an enemy to what is good, being against what is good pertaining to not loving what is good

2TI 3:3

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

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀφιλάγαθος aphilagathos 1x

not a lover of good and good men, 2 Tim. 3:3*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

*† ἀ-φιλ-άγαθος, -ον, without love of good: II Ti 3:3 (not elsewhere in Gk. lit., but v. MM, s.v.).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀφιλάγαθος. in P Oxy I. 33} 18 (ii/a.p.) (= Chrest 1. 20) a certain Apfianus charges the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (?) with τυραννία ἀφιλοκαγαθία ἀπαιδία (presumably ἀπαιδευσία), after extolling his deified father as φιλόσοφος, ἀφιλάργυρος, and φιλάγαθος. Vettius Valens has the negative of a similar compound ἀφιλόκαλος, also found in Plutarch. Nageli (p. 52) cites from an inscr, of ii/iii A.D. (Tanais) the strengthened compound παραφιλάγαθος.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀφιλάγαθος (aphilagathos) — hating good. ἀφῐλ-άγᾰθος [ᾰγ], ον, notloving the good, [NT]

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