Kejadian 45:15

45:15 He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After this his brothers talked with him.

Keluaran 4:27

4:27 The Lord said ¹  to Aaron, “Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God ²  and greeted him with a kiss. ³ 

Keluaran 18:7

18:7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; ⁴  they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent.

Keluaran 18:2

18:2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

1 Samuel 19:1

Saul Repeatedly Attempts to Take David’s Life

19:1 Then Saul told his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Saul’s son Jonathan liked David very much. ⁵ 

Lukas 7:45

7:45 You gave me no kiss of greeting, ⁶  but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.

Kisah Para Rasul 20:37

20:37 They all began to weep loudly, ⁷  and hugged ⁸  Paul and kissed him, ⁹ 

Roma 16:16

16:16 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

[4:27]  ¹ tn Heb “And Yahweh said.”

[4:27]  ² tn S. R. Driver considers that this verse is a continuation of vv. 17 and 18 and that Aaron met Moses before Moses started back to Egypt (Exodus, 33). The first verb, then, might have the nuance of a past perfect: Yahweh had said.

[4:27]  ³ tn Heb “and kissed him.”

[18:7]  ⁴ sn This is more than polite oriental custom. Jethro was Moses’ benefactor, father-in-law, and a priest. He paid much respect to him. Now he could invite Jethro into his home (see B. Jacob, Exodus, 496).

[19:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “delighted greatly in David.”

[7:45]  ⁶ tn Grk “no kiss.” This refers to a formalized kiss of greeting, standard in that culture. To convey this to the modern reader, the words “of greeting” have been supplied to qualify what kind of kiss is meant.

[20:37]  ⁷ tn Grk “weeping a great deal,” thus “loudly” (BDAG 472 s.v. ἱκανός and BDAG 546 s.v. κλαυθμός).

[20:37]  ⁸ tn Grk “fell on Paul’s neck” (an idiom, see BDAG 1014 s.v. τράχηλος).

[20:37]  ⁹ sn The Ephesians elders kissed Paul as a sign of both affection and farewell. The entire scene shows how much interrelationship Paul had in his ministry and how much he and the Ephesians meant to each other.