Bible Dictionary: Being a Friend

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Greek

5363. philanthropia -- love for mankind, kindness
... a "friend (benefactor) of humanity"; a person who warmly loves others, treating
them with the respect (benevolence) that befits each one being created in the ...
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444. anthropos -- a man, human, mankind
... anyone (1), child (1), enemy* (1), everyone* (1), fellow (1), friend (1), human ... the
countenance; from optanomai); man-faced, ie A human being -- certain, man. ...
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335. anaideia -- shamelessness
... ie accuse them of being extreme or excessive). Lk 11:8: "I tell you, if even he
will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of ...
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5368. phileo -- to love
... From philos; to be a friend to (fond of (an individual or an object)), ie ... ethelo
and boulomai, or as thumos and nous respectively; the former being chiefly of ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Proverbs 27:10
Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
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Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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Proverbs 18:24
A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.
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Strong's Hebrew

441. alluwph -- tame
... Or (shortened) talluph {al-loof'}; from 'alph; familiar; a friend, also gentle;
hence, a bullock (as being tame; applied, although masculine, to a cow); and so ...
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7965. shalom -- completeness, soundness, welfare, peace
... peace NASB Word Usage close (2), ease (1), favorable (1), friend* (1), friendly
terms ... 1), state (1), trusted (1), welfare (14), well (17), well-being (5), who ...
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Library

His Friend Being Snatched Away by Death, He Imagines that He ...
... Book IV. Chapter VI."His Friend Being Snatched Away by Death, He Imagines that
He Remains Only as Half. 11. But why do I speak of these things? ...
/.../the confessions and letters of st/chapter vi his friend being snatched.htm

The Conversation with Alypius Being Ended, He Retires to the ...
... Book VIII. Chapter VIII."The Conversation with Alypius Being Ended, He
Retires to the Garden, Whither His Friend Follows Him. 19. ...
/.../chapter viii the conversation with alypius.htm

That the Love of a Human Being, However Constant in Loving and ...
... Book IV. Chapter IX."That the Love of a Human Being, However Constant in Loving
and Returning Love, Perishes; While He Who Loves God Never Loses a Friend. ...
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Friendship.
... A friend thus becomes not only a completion of one's soul as he is by virtue of
being a friend, but also he becomes a completion of one's life. ...
/.../judy/questionable amusements and worthy substitutes/viii friendship.htm

The Humanheartedness of Jesus.
... beauty. That which alone makes one a Christian is being a friend of Jesus.
Friendship transforms"all human friendship transforms. ...
/.../miller/personal friendships of jesus/chapter i the humanheartedness of.htm

But You Will Say, the Good Will of a Friend Towards Me, Although I ...
... will of a friend towards me, although I cannot see it, yet can I trace it out by
many proofs; but you, what things you will us to believe not being seen, you ...
/.../augustine/concerning faith of things not seen /5 but you will say.htm

But You Say, that You Therefore Believe Your Friend, Whose Heart ...
... And yet it is true that a friend may be had also in prosperity, but proved ... For who
will be loved by any with mutual affection, (being that the loving itself is ...
/.../augustine/concerning faith of things not seen /3 but you say that.htm

Fresh Supplies of Power.
... Abraham had the reputation of being a friend of God. He even trusted his darling
boy's life to God when he could not understand what God was doing. ...
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The Friend of Sinners
... The Friend of Sinners. ... an aim so splendid as the glorification of God, unless there
be sinners to be the instruments of God's glory through being the partakers ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 8 1863/the friend of sinners.htm

The Poor Man's Friend
... GOD IS THE POOR MAN'S FRIEND; the poor man, in His helplessness and despair, leaves ...
is said that, when Erskine was pleading for a Man who was being tried for ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 53 1907/the poor mans friend.htm