Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
to be fond of honor, i.e. emulous (eager or earnest to do something)
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
pr. to be ambitious of honor; by impl. to exert one’s self to accomplish a thing, use one’s utmost efforts, endeavor earnestly, Rom. 15:20; 2 Cor. 5:9; 1 Thess. 4:11*
Translated in KJV as
labourstrivestudy
Etymology
middle voice from a compound of G5384 (φίλος) and G5092 (τιμή);
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