Greek verb · G5383
φιλοπρωτεύω
philoproteuofil-op-rote-yoo'-o
to love to be first
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: philoprōteúō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5383is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5383
to be fond of being first, i.e. ambitious of distinction
The King James renders it: love to have the preeminence.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
philoproteuo is rendered "to love to be first". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in 3 John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.3 John 1:9I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction.
The first use
I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction.
3 John 1:9φιλοπρωτεύων
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- loving to be first1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φίλος | philos | friendly/friend | Uses27 |
| φιλόξενος | philoxenos | hospitable | Uses3 |
| φιλοτιμέομαι | philotimeomai | to aspire | Uses3 |
| φιλοξενία | philoxenia | hospitality | Uses2 |
| φιλόθεος | philotheos | God-loving | Uses1 |
| φιλοσοφία | philosophia | philosophy | Uses1 |
| φιλόσοφος | philosophos | philosopher | Uses1 |
| φιλονεικία | philoneikia | love of dispute | Uses1 |
| φιλόνεικος | philoneikos | dispute-loving | Uses1 |
| φιλότεκνος | philoteknos | child loving | Uses1 |
| φιλοφρόνως | philophronos | hospitably | Uses1 |
| φιλόστοργος | philostorgos | affectionate | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- φιλοπρωτεύων1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
3 John
one use
I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction.
- φιλοπρωτεύωνphiloproteuonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: loving to be first
Where it leads
On this page
Studies1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.