Lexicon / G5389
φιλοτιμέομαι
philotimeomai
  • to aspire
  • to love or seek after honour
  • to be ambitious, emulous

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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