| Easton's Bible Dictionary Feeling or emotion. Mention is made of "vile affections" (Romans 1:26) and "inordinate affection" (Colossians 3:5). Christians are exhorted to set their affections on things above (Colossians 3:2). There is a distinction between natural and spiritual or gracious affections (Ezek. 33:32). Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected. 2. (n.) An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. 3. (n.) Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. 4. (n.) A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. 5. (n.) Prejudice; bias. 6. (n.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. 7. (n.) The lively representation of any emotion. 8. (n.) Affectation. 9. (n.) Passion; violent emotion. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia AFFECT; AFFECTION a-fekt', a-fek'-shun: The literal meaning of "affect" is to act upon (Latin ad, "to," "upon," facio, "to do"). It has various shades of meaning, and occurs in the following senses in the English Bible:
(1) In its literal sense: Lamentations 3:51, "Mine eye affecteth my soul"
(2) In the sense of "to endeavor after," "desire," "court": Galatians 4:17, "They zealously affect (the Revised Version (British and American) "seek") you. that ye may affect (the Revised Version (British and American) "seek") them," i.e. they earnestly court your favor, that you may court theirs. Paul means that the proselytizing zeal of the Judaizers was rooted in personal ambition. The past part. "affected" (the Revised Version (British and American) "sought") has the same meaning in Galatians 4:18. The same Greek word (zeloo) is translated "desire earnestly" in the Revised Version (British and American) (1 Corinthians 12:31; 1 Corinthians 14:1, 39). "Affect" has a similar meaning in Ecclesiasticus 13:11.
(3) In the passive, it occurs in the sense of "to be disposed," in a neutral sense, with an adverb to characterize the nature of the disposition: Acts 14:2, "evil affected against the brethren" So also 2 Maccabees 4:21; 13:26.
"Affection" occurs in the following senses:
(1) In the literal sense: the state of having one's feelings acted upon or affected in some way; bent or disposition of mind, in a neutral sense (the nature of the affection, whether good or bad, needing further description in the context). So Colossians 3:2, "Set your affection (the Revised Version (British and American) "mind") on things above"; Colossians 3:5, "inordinate affection" (here "affection" by itself is neutral; the addition of the adjective makes it equivalent to "passion" in an evil sense, as in the Revised Version (British and American)).
(2) In a good sense: tender feeling, warm attachment, good will; the word in itself carrying a good meaning apart from the context. 1 Chronicles 29:3, "because I have set my affection on the house of my God"; Romans 1:31 2 Timothy 3:3, "without natural affection", 2 Corinthians 6:12 "Ye are straitened in your own affections" (lit. "bowels," regarded as the seat of kindly feelings, compare Eng "heart") So 2 Corinthians 7:15.
(3) In an evil sense in the plural = passions. Galatians 5:24, the flesh, with the affections (the Revised Version (British and American) "passions") and "lusts"; Romans 1:26, "God gave them unto vile affections" (the Revised Version (British and American) "passions").
"Affectioned" occurs once, in a neutral sense: Romans 12:10, "affectioned (i.e. "disposed") one to another" In 1 Thessalonians 2:8, we have "affectionately," in a good sense.
D. Miall Edwards |  | Multi-Version Concordance Affection (30 Occurrences) Mark 14:45 So he came, and going straight to Jesus he said, "Rabbi!" and kissed Him with seeming affection; (WEY) John 5:20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. (WEB) John 11:3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick." (WEB) John 11:36 The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!" (WEB) John 16:27 for the Father himself has affection for you, because ye have had affection for me, and have believed that I came out from God. (DBY) John 21:15 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." (WEB) John 21:16 He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." (WEB) John 21:17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. (WEB) Romans 1:31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT) Romans 12:10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another; (Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV) 1 Corinthians 7:3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. (WEB) 2 Corinthians 6:12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. (Root in WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV) 2 Corinthians 7:7 but also by the fact that he had felt comforted on your account, and by the report which he brought of your eager affection, of your grief, and of your jealousy on my behalf, so that I rejoiced more than ever. (WEY) 2 Corinthians 7:11 For mark the effects of this very thing--your having sorrowed with a godly sorrow--what earnestness it has called forth in you, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing affection, what jealousy, what meting out of justice! You have completely wiped away reproach from yourselves in the matter. (WEY) 2 Corinthians 7:15 His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Philippians 1:8 For God is my witness how I yearn over all of you with tender Christian affection. (WEY NAS RSV NIV) Philippians 2:1 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, (See NAS RSV) Colossians 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (KJV WBS) Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: (KJV WBS) 1 Thessalonians 2:8 Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us. (Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS NAS RSV) 1 Thessalonians 4:5 not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God, (YLT) 2 Timothy 3:3 without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT) Philemon 1:6 praying as I do, that their participation in your faith may result in others fully recognizing all the right affection that is in us toward Christ. (WEY) 1 Peter 1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently: (WEB) 2 Peter 1:7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love. (WEB WEY RSV) Deuteronomy 10:15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day. (See NAS NIV) 1 Chronicles 29:3 In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS) Proverbs 5:19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love. (See RSV) Jeremiah 31:3 Jehovah appeared of old unto me,'saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. (See JPS) Ezekiel 24:21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword. (See NIV) |
