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ἀγάπη involves the idea of affectionate reverence, prompt obedience, grateful recognition of benefits received: Mt. vi. 24; xxii. 37; Ro. viii. 28; 1 Co. ii. 9; viii. 3; Jas. i. 12; 1 Pet. i. 8; 1 Jn. iv. 10, 20, and elsewhere. With an acc. of the thing 🇬🇷 denotes to take pleasure in the thing, prize it above other things, be unwilling to abandon it or do without it: 🇬🇷, Heb. i. 9 (i. e. steadfastly to cleave to); 🇬🇷, Jn. xii. 43; 🇬🇷, Lk. xi. 43; 🇬🇷 and 🇬🇷, Jn. iii. 19; 🇬🇷, 1 Jn. ii. 15; 🇬🇷, 2 Tim. iv. 10,—both which last phrases signify to set the heart on earthly advantages and joys; 🇬🇷, Rev. xii. 11; 🇬🇷, 1 Pet. iii. 10 (to derive pleasure from life, render it agreeable to himself); to welcome with desire, long for: 🇬🇷, 2 Tim. iv. 8 (Sap. i. 1; vi. 13; Sir. iv. 12, etc.; so of a person: 🇬🇷, Sap. iv. 10, cf. Grimm ad loc.). Concerning the unique proof of love which Jesus gave the apostles by washing their feet, it is said 🇬🇷, Jn. xiii. 1, cf. Lücke or Meyer ad loc. [but al. take 🇬🇷 here more comprehensively, see Weiss’s Mey., Godet, Westcott, Keil]. The combination 🇬🇷 occurs, when a relative intervenes, in Jn. xvii. 26; Eph. ii. 4, (2 S. xiii. 15 where 🇬🇷 is contrasted; cf. Gen. xlix. 25 🇬🇷; Ps. Sal. xvii. 35 [in cod. Pseudepig. Vet. Test. ed. Fabric. i. p. 966; Libri Apocr. etc., ed. Fritzsche, p. 588] 🇬🇷); cf. W. § 32, 2; [B. 148 sq. (129)]; Grimm on 1 Macc. ii. 54.

On the difference betw. 🇬🇷 and 🇬🇷, see 🇬🇷. Cf. 🇬🇷, 1 fin.

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, a purely bibl. and eccl. word (for Wyttenbach, following Reiske’s conjecture, long ago restored 🇬🇷 in place of 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷 in Plut. sympos. quaestt. 7, 6, 3 [vol. viii. p. 835 ed. Reiske]). Prof. auth. fr. [Aristot.], Plut. on used 🇬🇷. “The Sept. use 🇬🇷 for, Cant. ii. 4, 5, 7; iii. 5, 10; v. 8; vii. 6; viii. 4, 6, 7; [“It is noticeable that the word first makes its appearance as a current term in the Song of Sol.;—certainly no undesigned evidence respecting the idea which the Alex. translators had of the love in this Song” (Zezschwitz, Profangraec. u. bibl. Sprachgeist, p. 63)] Jer. ii. 2; Eccl. ix. 1, 6; [2 S. xiii. 15]. It occurs besides in Sap. iii. 9; vi. 19. In Philo and Joseph. I do not remember to have met with it. Nor is it found in the N. T. in Acts, Mk., or Jas.; it occurs only once in Mt. and Lk., twice in Heb. and Rev., but frequently in the writings of Paul, John, Peter, Jude” (Bretschn. Lex. s. v.); [Philo, deus immut. § 14].

In signification it follows the verb 🇬🇷; consequently it denotes 1. affection, good-will, love, benevolence: Jn. xv. 13; Ro. xiii. 10; 1 Jn. iv. 18. Of the love of men to men; esp. of that love of Christians towards Christians which is enjoined and prompted by their religion, whether the love be viewed as in the soul or as expressed: Mt. xxiv. 12; 1 Co. xiii. 1-4, 8; xiv. 1; 2 Co. ii. 4; Gal. v. 6; Philem. 5, 7; 1 Tim. i. 5; Heb. vi. 10; x. 24; Jn. xiii. 35; 1 Jn. iv. 7; Rev. ii. 4, 19, etc. Of the love of men towards God: 🇬🇷 (obj. gen. [W. 185 (175)]), Lk. xi. 42; Jn. v. 42; 1 Jn. ii. 15 (🇬🇷); iii. 17; iv. 12; v. 3. Of the love of God towards men: Ro. v. 8; viii. 39; 2 Co. xiii. 13 (14). Of the love of God towards Christ: Jn. xv. 10; xvii. 26. Of the love of Christ towards men: Jn. xv. 9 sq.; 2 Co. v. 14; Ro. viii. 35; Eph. iii. 19. In construction: 🇬🇷, 2 Co. ii. 8 [?]; Eph. i. 15 [L WH om. Tr mrg. br. 🇬🇷]; 🇬🇷 i. e. love going forth from your soul and taking up its abode as it were in ours, i. q. your love to us, 2 Co. viii. 7 [W. 193 (181 sq.); B. 329 (283)]; 🇬🇷 i. e. is present with (embraces) you, 1 Co. xvi. 24; 🇬🇷 i. e. seen among us, 1 Jn. iv. 17. Phrases: 🇬🇷, 2 Co. ii. 4; Col. i. 4 [L T Tr, but WH br.]; 1 Pet. iv. 8; 🇬🇷 to give a proof of love, 1 Jn. iii. 1; 🇬🇷, Jn. xvii. 26; Eph. ii. 4 (v. in 🇬🇷, sub fin.); 🇬🇷 i. e. enkindled by the Holy Spirit, Ro. xv. 30; 🇬🇷 the Son who is the object of love, i. q. 🇬🇷, Col. i. 13 (W. 237 (222); [B. 162 (141)]); 🇬🇷 the author of love, 2 Co. xiii. 11; 🇬🇷 troublesome service, toil, undertaken from love, 1 Th. i. 3; 🇬🇷 love which embraces the truth, 2 Th. ii. 10; 🇬🇷 God is wholly love, his nature is summed up in love, 1 Jn. iv. 8, 16; 🇬🇷 a kiss as a sign among Christians of mutual affection, 1 Pet. v. 14; 🇬🇷 that love may have opportunity of influencing thee (‘in order to give scope to the power of love’ De W., Wies.), Philem. 9, cf. 14; 🇬🇷 lovingly, in an affectionate spirit, 1 Co. iv. 21; on love as a basis [al. in love as the sphere or element], Eph. iv. 15 (where 🇬🇷 is to be connected not with 🇬🇷 but with 🇬🇷), vs. 16; 🇬🇷 influenced by love, Phil. i. 17 (16); 🇬🇷 in a manner befitting love, Ro. xiv. 15. Love is mentioned together with faith and hope in 1 Co. xiii. 13; 1 Th. i. 3; v. 8, Col. i. 4 sq.; Heb. x. 22-24. On the words 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, cf. Gelpke in the Stud. u. Krit. for 1849, p. 646 sq.; on the idea and nature of Christian love see Köstlin, Lehrbgr. des Ev. Joh. etc. p. 248 sqq., 382 sqq.; Rückert, Theologie, ii. 452 sqq.; Lipsius, Paulin. Rechtfertigungsl. p. 188 sqq.; [Reuss, Théol. Chrét. livr. vii. chap. 13]. 2. Plur. 🇬🇷, agapae, love-feasts, feasts expressing and fostering mutual love which used to be held by Christians before the celebration of the Lord’s supper, and at which the poorer Christians mingled with the wealthier and partook in common with the rest of food provided at the expense of the wealthy: Jude 12 (and in 2 Pet. ii. 13 L Tr txt. WH mrg.), cf. 1 Co. xi. 17 sqq.; Acts ii. 42, 46; xx. 7; Tertull. Apol. c. 39, and ad Martyr. c. 3; Cypr. ad Quirin. 3, 3; Drescher, De vet. christ. Agapis. Giess. 1824; Mangold in Schenkel i. 53 sq.; [B. D. s. v. Love-Feasts; Dict. of Christ. Antiq. s. v. Agapae; more fully in McC. and S. s. v. Agape].

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, (🇬🇷), beloved, esteemed, dear, favorite; (opp. to 🇬🇷. Ro. xi. 28): 🇬🇷, of Jesus, the Messiah, Mt. iii. 17