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|txtha=([[φίλος]]) [[φίλη]], φίλον, from [[Homer]] [[down]], [[friendly]] (cf. Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]], I. and II.): φίλον [[εἶναι]] τίνι, to be [[friendly]] to [[one]], [[wish]] him [[well]], ὁ [[φίλος]], the Sept. for רֵעַ , אֹהֵב, a [[substantive]], a [[friend]]: συγγενεῖς, an [[associate]], opposed to [[δοῦλος]], φίλοι ἀναγκαιοι (A. V. [[near]] friends) Latin [[necessitate]] conjuncti, φίλε, [[friend]], in [[kindly]] [[address]], ὁ [[φίλος]] τίνος, he [[who]] associates [[familiarly]] [[with]] [[one]], a [[companion]], ὁ [[φίλος]] [[τοῦ]] νυμφίου, the rabbinical שׁושְׁבֵּן ([[which]] [[see]] in Buxtorf or Levy) (i. e. '[[son]] of [[gladness]]'), [[one]] of the [[bridegroom]]'s friends [[who]] on his [[behalf]] asked the [[hand]] of the [[bride]] and rendered him [[various]] services in [[closing]] the [[marriage]] and celebrating the [[nuptials]] (B. D., [[under]] the [[word]] Marriage, III.; Edersheim, Jewish Social Life, p. 152), [[φίλος]] [[τοῦ]] Καίσαρος, on [[Caesar]]'s [[side]], [[loyal]] to his interests, Θεοῦ, [[especially]] [[dear]] to God, [[peculiarly]] favored [[with]] his [[intimacy]], Lightfoot on Clement of [[Rome]], 1 Corinthians 10,1 [ET]; Rönsch in the Zeitschr. f. wissenschaftl. Theol. for 1873, p. 583 f); [[also]] in [[secular]] authors cf. Grimm, Exeget. Hdbch. on [[one]] [[who]] finds his [[pleasure]] in a [[thing]], [[φίλος]] [[τοῦ]] κόσμου, [[φίλη]], ἡ, a ([[female]]) [[friend]]: Luke 15:9.

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