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                    "dictionary": "Bailly",
                    "reference": "Bailly 2020 Hugo Chávez Gérard Gréco, André Charbonnet, Mark De Wilde, Bernard Maréchal & contributeurs \/ Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification — « CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 »",
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                    "description": "<b>ης (ἡ)<\/b> <font color='purple'>[ᾰᾰ]<\/font><br\/><b>      1<\/b> affection, SPT. <i>Eccl. 9, 1 ; particul<\/i>. amour fraternel, NT. <i>1Cor. 13, 1 ;<\/i> amour divin, PHIL. <i>1, 283 ;<\/i> NT. <i>Luc. 11, 42 ; 2Cor. 5, 14 ; rar<\/i>. amour <i>au sens de<\/i> passion, SPT. <i>Cant. 2, 4, 5 ; titre d’honneur<\/i> (Votre Amour) BAS. <i>4, 381 ;<\/i> NYSS. <i>3, 1073 edd. Migne ;<\/i><br\/><b>      2<\/b> objet d’affection, être aimé, SPT. <i>Cant. 2, 7 ;<\/i><br\/><b>      3<\/b> <i>au pl<\/i>. agapes, repas fraternels des premiers chrétiens, NT. <i>2Petr. 2, 13, etc. ; au sg<\/i>. CLÉM. <i>1, 384, 1112 Migne<\/i>."
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                    "description": "ἡ, <b>love<\/b>, LXX Je. 2.2, Ca. 2.7, al. ; ἀ. καὶ μῖσος Ec. 9.1; <font color='darkorange'>dub.l.<\/font> in PBerol. 9859 (ii BC, Phld. <i>Lib.<\/i> p. 52 O; of the love of husband and wife, Sch. Ptol. <i>Tetr.<\/i> 52. esp.<br\/><b>love<\/b> of God for man and of man for God, LXX Wi. 3.9, Aristeas 229; φόβος καὶ ἀ. Ph. 1.283, cf. Ep. Rom. 5.8, 2 Ep. Cor. 5.14, Ev. Luc. 11.42, al. ; — also <b>brotherly love, charity<\/b>, 1 Ep. Cor. 13.1, al. in pl., <b>love-feast<\/b>, 2 Ep. Pet. 2.13, Ep. Jud. 12.<br\/><b>alms, charity<\/b>, PGen. 14 (iv\/v AD). ἀγάπη θεῶν, title of Isis, POxy. 1380.109 (ii AD)."
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                    "reference": "Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)",
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                    "description": "ἡ, <i>Liebe, NT<\/i>."
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                    "reference": "Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Greek based on Abbot-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) (=AS), with corrections and adapted by Tyndale Scholars",
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                    "description": " <b>ἀγάπη<\/b>, -ης, ἡ <br\/> [in LXX for אַהֲבָה, which is also rendered by ἀγάπησις and φιλία ;] <br\/> <b>love, goodwill, esteem<\/b>. Outside of bibl. and eccl. books, there is no clear instance (with Deiss., <i>LAE<\/i>, 18:4, 70:2, cf. the same writer in <i>Constr. Quar.<\/i>, ii, 4; and with MM, <i>VGT<\/i>, see word, cf. Dr. Moulton in <i>Exp. Times<\/i>, xxvi, 3, 139). In NT, like ἀγαπάω, -ῶ, <br\/>__1. <b>Of men's love<\/b>: <br\/>__(a) to one another, Jhn.13:35; <br\/> __(b) to God, 1Jn.2:5.<br\/> __2. <b>Of divine love<\/b>; <br\/>__(a) <b>God's love<\/b>: to men, Rom.5:8; to Christ, Jhn.17:26; <br\/> __(b) <b>Christ's love to men<\/b>: Rom.8:35. <br\/> __3. In pl., <b>love feasts<\/b>: Ju 12 (<i>DB<\/i>, iii, 157).<br\/> <re><i>SYN.<\/i>: φιλία. ἀ., signifying properly (see: 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 thusdistinct from φιλία, <b>friendship<\/b> (Jas.4:4 only), στοργή, <b>natural affection<\/b> (in NT only in compounds, see: ἄστοργος) and ἔρως, <b>sexual love<\/b>, which is not used in NT, its place being taken by ἐπιθυμία. (Cf. ἀγαπάω; and see Abbott, <i>Essays<\/i>, 70f.; <i>DB<\/i>, vol. i., 555; Cremer, 13, 593; MM, <i>VGT<\/i>, see word).<\/re> (AS)"
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