ἈΔΕΛΦΑΣ, ἀδελφας
ADELPHAS, adelphas
Sounds Like: ah-del-FAS
Translations: sisters, the sisters
From the root: ἈΔΕΛΦΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to female siblings or, more broadly, to female fellow-believers or close associates. It is used in sentences to denote a group of women who are sisters by birth or by a shared bond.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0080 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 134:3
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, ἈΔΕΛΦΗ.
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.
- ἈΔΕΛΦΗΝ — sister, a sister
- ἈΔΕΛΦΗΣ — of a sister, of the sister, of sister
- ΤΗΝἈΔΕΛΦΗΝ — the sister, a sister
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