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φιλαργυρία

love of money

G5365 Strong's Greek
philargyría Transliteration
/fil-ar-goo-ree'-ah/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“love of money” is the headline sense of the Greek noun φιλαργυρια (philargyría). A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 1 Timothy. Scripture uses it exactly once, at 1 Timothy 6:10. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
love of money
Modern gloss
love of money
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G5365 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
1 Timothy 6:10
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in 1 Timothy 6:10.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 100%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Love of money 1×
  • American Standard Version: Love of money 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Love of money 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Love of money 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5365 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Love of money” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5365 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Love of money” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5365 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Love of money” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5365 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Love of money” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. love of money, avarice

Word origin

Derived from φιλαργυρος (philárgyros) (G5366) — money-loving.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine

From G5366 ; avarice : - love of money.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.

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