ἈΔΕΛΦΑΙ, ἀδελφαι
ADELPHAI, adelphai
Sounds Like: ah-del-FAI
Translations: sisters
From the root: ἈΔΕΛΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to female siblings or, more broadly, to female members of a community or group who share a common bond, such as fellow believers in a religious context. It is a compound word formed from the prefix 'ἀ-' (a-, meaning 'together' or 'same') and 'δελφύς' (delphys, meaning 'womb'), literally meaning 'from the same womb'. It is used in sentences to refer to multiple women who are sisters by birth or by association.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0080 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 12:6
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Pseudo Clement of Rome
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΔΕΛΦΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΔΕΛΦΕ — brother, O brother
- ἈΔΕΛΦΗ — sister, a sister
- ἈΔΕΛΦΙΔΕ — little sister, dear sister, a little sister, a dear sister
- ἈΔΕΛΦΙΔΟΝ — little brother, darling brother, cousin, a little brother, a darling brother, a cousin
- ἈΔΕΛΦΙΔΟΣ — of a sister's son, of a nephew, of a cousin
- ἈΔΕΛΦΙΚΩΣ — brotherly, in a brotherly way
- ἈΔΕΛΦΟΙ — brothers, fellow believers, kinsmen, countrymen
- ἈΔΕΛΦΟΙΣ — to brothers, to brethren, to fellow countrymen, to fellow believers
- ἈΔΕΛΦΟΝ — brother, a brother, fellowman, countryman, kinsman
- ἈΔΕΛΦΟΝΤΟΝ — unknown
- ἈΔΕΛΦΟΣ — brother, a brother, fellow countryman, kinsman, fellow believer
- ἈΔΕΛΦΟΥ — (of) a brother, (of) the brother, (of) a fellow believer, (of) the fellow believer, (of) a kinsman
- ἈΔΕΛΦΟΥΣ — brothers, brethren
- ἈΔΕΛΦΩ — to brother, to a brother, to fellow believer, to a fellow believer, to countryman, to a countryman
- ἈΔΕΛΦΩΝ — (of) brothers, (of) brethren, (of) fellow believers
- ἈΔΕΡ — brother, a brother
- ΔΕΤἈΔΕΛΦΩ — brother, a brother
- ΟἈΔΕΛΦΟΣ — the brother, a brother
- ΤἈΔΕΛΦΩ — to the brother, for the brother, to a brother, for a brother
- ΤΟΥἈΔΕΛΦΟΥ — of the brother, of a brother
- ΤΟΥΣΤἈΔΕΛΦΟΥ — of the brothers, of the brethren
- ΤΩΝἈΔΕΛΦΩΝ — (of) the brothers, (of) the brethren, (of) the fellow believers
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