STRONGS NUMBER G5387


Word Summary
philostorgos: tenderly loving
Original Word: φιλόστοργος
Transliteration: philostorgos
Phonetic Spelling: (fil-os'-tor-gos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: tenderly loving
Meaning: tenderly loving
Strong's Concordance
kindly affectioned.

From philos and storge (cherishing one's kindred, especially parents or children); fond of natural relatives, i.e. Fraternal towards fellow Christian -- kindly affectioned.

see GREEK philos

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5387: φιλόστοργος

φιλόστοργος, φιλοστοργον (φίλος, and στοργή the mutual love of parents and children; also of husbands and wives), loving affection, prone to love, loving tenderly; used chiefly of the reciprocal tenderness of parents and children: τῇ φιλαδελφία (dative of respect) εἰς ἀλλήλους (R. V. in love of the brethren tenderly affectioned one to another), Romans 12:10. (Xenophon, Plutarch, Lucian, Aelian, others) Cf. Fritzsche, Commentary on Romans, vol. iii., p. 69.