UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: φιλία; -ας

Related lemmas: φιλέω

Sense 1: to love, to have affection for

Semantic entry: 25.33

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Love, Affection, Compassion

Definition: to have love or affection for someone or something based on association

Notes: In a number of languages it may be difficult if not impossible to speak of ‘affection … is hostility.’ Frequently it is necessary to relate such emotional attitudes to individuals, so that this expression in RV JAM 4:4 · LV JAM 4:4 · Read together JAM 4:4 may be rendered in some languages as ‘people who love the things in the world are against God.’|See the discussion of the meaning of φιλέω[a] and φιλία in 25.43: ἀγαπάω / 25.43: ἀγάπη.

JAM 4:4: RV JAM 4:4 · LV JAM 4:4 · Read together JAM 4:4

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OET-RV JAM 4:4

4 You’re just like prostitutes. Don’t you realise that if you befriend the world then you’re opposing God, so anyone who befriends the world makes themself an enemy of God.

OET-LV JAM 4:4

4 Adultresses.
Not you _all _have _known that the friendship with _the world, enmity the of_god is?
Whoever therefore if may _be _wished a_friend to _be of _the world, an_enemy of_ the _god is _being _appointed.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

φιλία

Form 1

Sense 1: to love, to have affection for