Strong's #25: agapao (pronounced ag-ap-ah'-o)
perhaps from agan (much) (or compare 5689); to love (in a social or moral sense):--(be-)love(-ed). Compare 5368.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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agapaō
1) of persons
1a) to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly
2) of things
2a) to be well pleased, to be contented at or with a thing
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: perhaps from agan (much) [or compare G5368]
Usage:
This word is used 143 times:
John 15:9: "Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in"
John 15:12: "my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you."
John 15:12: "ye love one another, as I have loved you."
John 15:17: "I command you, that ye love one another."
John 17:23: "hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."
John 17:23: "hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."
John 17:24: "thou hast given me: for thou lovedst"
John 17:24: "thou hast given me: for thou lovedst"
John 17:26: "the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them,"
John 19:26: "disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman,"
John 21:7: "disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the"
John 21:15: "Peter, Simon, son of Jona, lovest thou me more than these? He saith"
John 21:16: "the second time, Simon, son of Jona, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea,"
John 21:20: "disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned"
Romans 8:28: "work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called"
Romans 8:37: "these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us."
Romans 9:13: "As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."
Romans 9:25: "my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved."
Romans 9:25: "people; and her beloved, which was not beloved."
Romans 13:8: "no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another"
Romans 13:8: "to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."
Romans 13:9: "this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as"
1 Corinthians 2:9: "the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."
1 Corinthians 8:3: "But if any man love God, the same is known of"
2 Corinthians 9:7: "of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver."
2 Corinthians 11:11: "Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth."
2 Corinthians 12:15: "you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved."
2 Corinthians 12:15: "I love you, the less I be loved."
Galatians 2:20: "the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself"
Galatians 5:14: "word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
Ephesians 1:6: "wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved."
Ephesians 2:4: "great love wherewith he loved us,"
Ephesians 5:2: "as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself"
Ephesians 5:25: "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved"
Ephesians 5:25: "even as Christ also loved the church, and gave"
Ephesians 5:28: "So ought men to love their wives as their own"
Ephesians 5:28: "as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself."
Ephesians 5:28: "He that loveth his wife loveth himself."
Ephesians 5:33: "in particular so love his wife even as"
Ephesians 6:24: "Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ"
Colossians 3:12: "of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind,"
Colossians 3:19: "Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them."
1 Thessalonians 1:4: "Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God."
1 Thessalonians 4:9: "yourselves are taught of God to love one another."
2 Thessalonians 2:13: "for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God"
2 Thessalonians 2:16: "even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting"
2 Timothy 4:8: "only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."
2 Timothy 4:10: "Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed"
Hebrews 1:9: " Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God,"
Hebrews 12:6: "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every"
