Definition

fond to good, i.e. a promoter of virtue

Etymology

from G5384 (φίλος) and G18 (ἀγαθός);

Word family

• φίλος phílos
• ἀγαθός agathós

How the KJV renders it

• love of good men

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.