G5387

φιλόστοργος

philostorgosG:A

affectionate

φιλόστοργος, -ον (στοργή, family affection), [in LXX: 4Ma.15:13 * ;] tenderly loving, affectionate (Xen., Plut., al.): of Christians, Rom.12:10.† (AS)

The KJV translates G5387 in the following manner:

affectioned (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

φιλόστοργος — philóstorgos

φιλόστοργος, φιλοστοργον (φίλος, and στοργή the mutual love of parents and children; also of husbands and wives), loving affection, prone to love, loving tenderly; used chiefly of the reciprocal tenderness of parents and children: τῇ φιλαδελφία (dative of respect) εἰς ἀλλήλους (R. V. in love of the brethren tenderly affectioned one to another), Rom 12:10. (Xenophon, Plutarch, Lucian, Aelian, others) Cf. Fritzsche, Commentary on Romans, vol. iii., p. 69.

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