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Appendixes To The Companion Bible
APPENDIX 135
THE SYNONYMOUS WORDS FOR
"LOVE"
I. THE VERB
1. agapao = to
regard with favour, to make much of a thing or a person, on principle.
The cause or ground of No.2.
2. phileo = to
kiss, to be fond of, having regard to feeling as distinct from
principle. The demonstration of No.1. Hence No 2 is never used of man's
love to God: this is always No.1. Both words are used of God's love to
man. No.2 is used of the Lord's love for Lazarus (John 11:3,36) but not
in v.5, where the sisters are included. See the notes on John 21:15-17;
and on John 12:25.
II. THE NOUN
1. agape. No. 2
below, was the common word used by the Greeks, for love; and even this
is far lower than the N.T. philadelphia {= love of the brethren}.
Agape is spontaneous love, irrespective of "rights".
The word was supposed to be peculiar to the N.T., but it is found in the
Papyri.
2. philanthropia =
philanthropy, or love of man, which did not go beyond giving man his
"rights", among the Greeks. It is used in a highter sense in
Tit 3:4; occurs elsewhere only in Acts 28:2. Cp the Adverb philanthropos
(Acts 27:3, "courteously").
III. THE ADJECTIVE
agapetos =
beloved. The word used of the Lord Jesus by the Father. See Matt 3:17;
12:18; 17:5. Mark 1:11; 9:7. Luke 3:22; and in Mark 12:6. Luke 20:13, by
Himself. A special epithet of the Saints in the Epistles.
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