Original: ἀγαπάω

Transliteration: agapáō

Phonetic: ag-ap-ah'-o

Short Definition: Love

- Original: ἀγαπάω

- Transliteration: Agapao

- Phonetic: ag-ap-ah'-o

- Definition:

1. of persons

a. to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly

2. of things

a. to be well pleased, to be contented at or with a thing

- Origin: perhaps from agan (much) [or cf G5368]

- TDNT entry: 01:21,5

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: Perhaps from ἄγαν agan (much; or compare [H5689]); to love (in a social or moral sense): - (be-) love (-ed). Compare G5368.

Cognate: G26, G27