STRONGS G2705:
καταφιλέω,
καταφίλω; imperfect
κατεφίλουν; 1 aorist
κατεφίλησα;
to kiss much, kiss again and again, kiss tenderly (Latin
deosculor, etc.):
τινα,
Matthew 26:49;
Mark 14:45;
Luke 7:38,
45;
Luke 15:20;
Acts 20:37. (Tobit 7:6; 3Macc. 5:49;
Xenophon, Cyril 6, 4,10; 7, 5, 32;
Polybius 15, 1, 7;
Josephus, Antiquities 7, 11, 7;
Aelian v. h. 13, 4;
Plutarch, Brut. 16;
Lucian, dial. deor. 4, 5; 5, 3;
φιλεῖν and
καταφίλειν are distinguished in
Xenophon, mem. 2, 6, 33;
Plutarch, Alex c. 67. The
Sept. for
נָשַׁק, properly,
to join mouth to mouth.) Cf: Fritzsche on Matthew, p. 780;
Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part ii., p. 18, note{21}.
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