What is the greek word for love?

Question

plz tell me what is it, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

there are 3 that I know of: 1) eros- sensual love 2) phileo-brotherly love 3) agape-love that comes from God and instilled within people

Answer 2

If you are looking, as people most often seem to be, for the word used in biblical Greek (of the New Testament, as well as the earliest Greek translations of the Old Testament), the *common* word for "love" is "AGAPE" (uh-GAH-pay).

There is a popular misunderstanding that this is a special word that refers to one special kind of love, viz., God's love. But in fact, the word is used about as broadly as we use English "love". In fact, there is even an Old Testament story in which it clearly refers to lust (of one of David's sons for his half-sister) and culminates in rape.

There was also, in the first century, the word PHILIA. This had,in fact, at one time been the common word for love, just as AGAPE came to be. That was the case in the much earlier Attic dialect of Plato, etc., (In fact, it is the mistaken mixing together of these two distinct dialects --miles and centuries apart-- that is largely responsible for the mistaken idea that New Testament Greek had a whole set of carefully distinguished words for different kinds of love.) But in NT, forms of Greek PHILIA are mostly found in older COMPOUND words -- we can see it, for instance in the name "Philadelphia", meaning "love of brother"/"brotherly love".

Answer 3

The Modern Greek word "erotas" means "(romantic) love".

Answer 4

AGAPE (ah-guh-pay) in verb form AGAPAO
meaning to pour ones self into unconditionally, a love that only God has perfected!!!!

some may say that AGAPE means lust because they are not aware that lust is sin (which separates us from GOD!) and how could that ever be classified as any kind of love!

Answer 5

There are several. A different word for each different kind of love. Sorry, to do it but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love explains it well.

Answer 6

well the only one that i heard of 2
eros and phillia

though phillia is more to like

eros is the way to go

Answer 7

amore

Answer 8

αγάπη
agápeh