Definition

to be fond of honor, i.e. emulous (eager or earnest to do something)

Etymology

middle voice from a compound of G5384 (φίλος) and G5092 (τιμή);

Where the KJV renders it

• labour
• strive
• study

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.

What the first audience heard

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