φιλήδονος
pleasure-loving
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G5369 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Timothy 1 verse
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.
φιληδονος — transliterated philḗdonos — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “pleasure-loving.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in 2 Timothy (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is 2 Timothy 3:4. From the same root come φιλος, φιλαγαθος and φιλαδελφος. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5369 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.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Timothy 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
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: Lovers of pleasures 1×
- American Standard Version: Up 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lovers of pleasure 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lovers of pleasure 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5369 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5369 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5369 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5369 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- loving pleasure
Word origin
Derived from φιλος (phílos) (G5384) — friend.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5369, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- φιλαγαθος philágathos G5358 loving goodness
- φιλαδελφος philádelphos G5361 loving brother
- φιλανδρος phílandros G5362 loving husband
- φιλανθρωπως philanthrṓpōs G5364 humanely
- φιλαργυρος philárgyros G5366 money-loving
- φιλαυτος phílautos G5367 self-loving
- φιλεω philéō G5368 to love
- φιλια philía G5373 friendship
- φιλονεικος philóneikos G5380 contentious
- φιλοξενος philóxenos G5382 hospitable
- φιλοπρωτευω philoprōteúō G5383 to desire first place
- φιλοσοφος philósophos G5386 philosopher
- φιλοστοργος philóstorgos G5387 affection
- φιλοτεκνος philóteknos G5388 loving children
- φιλοτιμεομαι philotiméomai G5389 to love honor
- φιλοφρων philóphrōn G5391 friendly
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- Φιλιππος Phílippos G5376 Philip
- φιλοθεος philótheos G5377 God-loving
- Φιλολογος Philólogos G5378 Philologus
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 21 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
