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Strong's numbers

ἀγάπη G26

agápē

ag-ah'-pay

from ἀγαπάω; love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast:--(feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love.

Abbott–Smith

† ἀγάπη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX for אַהֲבָה, which is also rendered by ἀγάπησις and φιλία;]
love, goodwill, esteem. Outside of bibl. and eccl. books, there is no clear instance (with Deiss., LAE, 18:4, 70:2, cf. the same writer in Constr. Quar., ii, 4; and with MM, VGT, s.v., cf. Dr. Moulton in Exp. Times, xxvi, 3, 139). In NT, like ἀγαπάω, -ῶ,
1. Of men's love:
(a) to one another, Jo 13:35;
(b) to God, I Jo 2:5.
2. Of divine love;
(a) God's love: to men, Ro 5:8; to Christ, Jo 17:26;
(b) Christ's love to men: Ro 8:35.
3. In pl., love feasts: Ju 12 (DB, iii, 157).

SYN.: φιλία. ἀ., signifying properly (v.s. ἀγαπάω) love which chooses its object, is taken over from LXX, where its connotation is more general, into NT, and there used exclusively to express that spiritual bond of love between God and man and between man and man, in Christ, which is characteristic of Christianity. It is thus distinct from φιλία, friendship (Ja 4:4 only), στοργή, natural affection (in NT only in compounds, v.s. ἄστοργος) and ἔρως, sexual love, which is not used in NT, its place being taken by ἐπιθυμία. (Cf. ἀγαπάω; and v. Abbott, Essays, 70f.; DB, vol. i., 555; Cremer, 13, 593; MM, VGT, s.v.).

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), in the public domain.

106 occurrences

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  • 1 Corinthians 13:3
    And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
  • 1 Corinthians 13:4
    Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
  • 1 Corinthians 13:8
    Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
  • 1 Corinthians 13:13
    And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
  • 1 Corinthians 14:1
    Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
  • 1 Corinthians 16:14
    Let all your things be done with charity.
  • 1 Corinthians 16:24
    My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus and Timotheus.
  • 2 Corinthians 2:4
    For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
  • 2 Corinthians 2:8
    Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
  • 2 Corinthians 5:14
    For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: