fivlo" fivlo", fivlh, fivlon, from Homer down, friendly (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. and II.): fivlon ei\nai tivni, to be friendly to one, wish him well, ;1. oJ fivlo", the Septuagint for ["re, bheao, a substantive, a friend: ; ; ; ; ; ; (14): joined with suggenei'", ; an associate, opposed to dou'lo", ; fivloi ajnagkaioi (A. V. near friends) Latin necessitate conjuncti, ; fivle, friend, in kindly address, ; with a genitive of the subject, oJ fivlo" tivno", ,(8); ; ; ; ; f; specifically, he who associates familiarly with one, a companion, ; ; oJ fivlo" tou' numfivou, the rabbinical @Bev]/v (which see in Buxtorf or Levy) (i. e. `son of gladness'), one of the bridegroom's friends who on his behalf asked the hand of the bride and rendered him various services in closing the marriage and celebrating the nuptials (B. D., under the word Marriage, III.; Edersheim, Jewish Social Life, p. 152), ; fivlo" tou' Kaivsaro", on Caesar's side, loyal to his interests, ; Qeou', especially dear to God, peculiarly favored with his intimacy, ((cf. Harnack and Lightfoot on Clement of Rome, , ; ; R?nsch in the Zeitschr. f. wissenschaftl. Theol. for 1873, p. 583f); also in secular authors cf. Grimm, Exeget. Hdbch. on Sap. , p. 164); with a genitive of the thing, one who finds his pleasure in a thing, fivlo" tou' kovsmou, .2. Feminine, fivlh, hJ, a (female) friend: .*