φιλοτιμέομαι
philotimeomai
- to aspire
- to love or seek after honour
- to be ambitious, emulous
STEPBible TBESG
Glosses: to aspire
φιλοτιμέομαι, -οῦμαι
(φίλος, τιμή), [in LXX: 4Ma.1:35 A ;]
to love or seek after honour, hence, to be ambitious, emulous (Plat. Plut. al.): with inf. Rom.15:20, 2Co.5:9, 1Th.4:11.†
(AS)
Abbott-Smith
Glosses: to love or seek after honour; to be ambitious, emulous
to love or seek after honour; to be ambitious, emulous