Greek verb · G5389
φιλοτιμέομαι
philotimeomaifil-ot-im-eh'-om-ahee
to aspire
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: philotiméomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5389is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5389
to be fond of honor, i.e. emulous (eager or earnest to do something)
The King James renders it: labour, strive, study.
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
philotimeomai is rendered "to aspire". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 15:20In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
Romans 15:20φιλοτιμούμενον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Romans.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- being ambitious1
- to strive earnestly1
- we are ambitious1
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 |
| 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 |
| φιλοπρωτεύω | philoproteuo | to love to be first | Uses1 |
| φιλόστοργος | philostorgos | affectionate | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings 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
- φιλοτιμεῖσθαι1
- φιλοτιμούμεθα1
- φιλοτιμούμενον1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person plural1V-PNI-1P
- verb · present middle or passive form, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PNN
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singular1V-PNP-ASM
Romans
one use
In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
- φιλοτιμούμενονphilotimoumenonverb · present middle or passive form, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: being ambitious
2 Corinthians
one use
So we aspire to please Him, whether we are here in this body or away from it.
- φιλοτιμούμεθαphilotimoumethaverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we are ambitious
1 Thessalonians
one use
and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
- φιλοτιμεῖσθαιphilotimeisthaiverb · present middle or passive form, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to strive earnestly
Where it leads
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.