Philanthropia means “kindness” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5363 — noqeph (“shaking”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5363 φιλανθρωπία (philanthropia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. philanthropia (fil-an-thro-pee'-ah) n. 1. fondness of mankind, i.e. benevolence ("philanthropy") [from a compound of G5384 and G444] It has 6 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include kindness. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
philanthropia (fil-an-thro-pee'-ah) n. 1. fondness of mankind, i.e. benevolence ("philanthropy") [from a compound of G5384 and G444] KJV: kindness, love towards man Root(s): G5384, G444 See also: G5364
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5363. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
benevolence
Usage: φιλανθρωπία, -ας, ἡ (φιλάνθρωπος, humane), [in LXX: Est.8:13, 2Ma.6:22 2Mac 14:9, 3Ma.3:15 3Mac 3:18 * ;] humanity, kindness (see Field, Notes, 147 f.): Act.28:2, Tit.3:4 (cf. also DCG, ii, 356 ff.).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render philanthropia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5363 (φιλανθρωπία) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
that in so doing he might be delivered from death, and for the old friendship with them find favor.
Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, be careful for the country, and our nation, which is pressed on every side, according to the clemency that thou readily showest unto all.
we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5363.
And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
that in so doing he might be delivered from death, and for the old friendship with them find favor.
Wherefore, O king, seeing thou knowest all these things, be careful for the country, and our nation, which is pressed on every side, according to the clemency that thou readily showest unto all.
we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors.
they were so carried away by their old arrogance, as to forbid us the entrance; while we, out of our forbearance toward all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5363, grouped by book.
Philanthropia (Strong's G5363) is a Greek word most simply glossed "kindness". philanthropia (fil-an-thro-pee'-ah) n. 1. fondness of mankind, i.e. benevolence ("philanthropy") [from a compound of G5384 and G444]
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's G5363 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5363 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as kindness. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5363, with linked reader references where each row is available.