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:
James 1:12: "the Lord hath promised to them that love him."
James 2:5: "kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?"
James 2:8: "according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,"
1 Peter 1:8: "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see"
1 Peter 1:22: "unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart"
1 Peter 2:17: "Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor"
1 Peter 3:10: "For he that will love life, and see good days,"
2 Peter 2:15: "of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;"
1 John 2:10: " He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and"
1 John 2:15: " Love not the world, neither the things that are in the"
1 John 2:15: "world. If any man love the world, the love"
1 John 3:10: "of God, neither he that loveth not his brother."
1 John 3:11: "from the beginning, that we should love one another."
1 John 3:14: "unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not"
1 John 3:14: "we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in"
1 John 3:18: "My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but"
1 John 3:23: "Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us"
1 John 4:7: "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God;"
1 John 4:7: "God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and"
1 John 4:8: " He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is"
1 John 4:10: "love, not that we loved God, but that"
1 John 4:10: "God, but that he loved us, and sent"
1 John 4:11: "if God so loved us, we ought also"
1 John 4:11: "we ought also to love one another."
1 John 4:12: "God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in"
1 John 4:19: "We love him, because he first loved us."
1 John 4:19: "because he first loved us."
1 John 4:20: "If a man say, I love God, and hateth his"
1 John 4:20: "he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom"
1 John 4:20: "he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"
1 John 4:21: "we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother"
1 John 4:21: "That he who loveth God love his brother also."
1 John 5:1: "God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten"
1 John 5:1: "every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him."
1 John 5:2: "this we know that we love the children of God, when"
1 John 5:2: "children of God, when we love God, and keep his"
2 John 1:1: "children, whom I love in the truth; and not"
2 John 1:5: "from the beginning, that we love one another."
3 John 1:1: "Gaius, whom I love in the truth."
Revelation 1:5: "kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us"
Revelation 3:9: "to know that I have loved thee."
Revelation 12:11: "of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto"
Revelation 20:9: "compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved"
