ἀγάπησις
love, affection
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀγάπησις appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Samuel 1:26 ἀγάπησις I am grieved for you, my brother Jonathan; you were very lovely to me; your love to me was wonderful beyond the love of women.
- 2 Samuel 1:26 ἀγάπησις I am grieved for you, my brother Jonathan; you were very lovely to me; your love to me was wonderful beyond the love of women.
- Psalms 108:5 ἀγάπησις And they rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
- Jeremiah 2:33 ἀγάπησις What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover you have done wickedly in corrupting your ways;
- Jeremiah 38:3 ἀγάπησις The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn you in compassion.
- Hosea 11:4 ἀγάπησις When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man striking another on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.
- Habakkuk 3:4 ἀγάπησις His excellence covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness shall be as light; there were horns in his hands, and he caused a mighty love of his strength.
- Zephaniah 3:17 ἀγάπησις The Lord your God is in you; the Mighty One shall save you: he shall bring joy upon you, and shall refresh you with his love; and he shall rejoice over you with delight as in a day of feasting.
About this word
About this word
ἀγάπησις (agápēsis), “love, affection,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 8 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →