ἈΔΕΛΦΗ, ἀδελφη
ADELPHĒ, adelphē
Sounds Like: ah-del-FEE
Translations: sister, a sister
From the root: ἈΔΕΛΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: ἈΔΕΛΦΗ is a feminine noun meaning 'sister'. It refers to a female sibling or, more broadly, a close female associate or fellow believer, especially in a religious context. It is often used in the New Testament to refer to Christian women.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0080 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:41
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 19:290
- Book 2 — 9:221
- Book 9 — 7:141
- Book 15 — 3:80, 7:213, 7:223
- Book 16 — 1:8
- Book 17 — 2:34, 2:36, 4:63, 5:93, 5:142, 8:189, 9:220
- Book 18 — 2:31, 5:110, 5:136, 7:240
- Book 19 — 2:204
- Book 20 — 10:248
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 65:355
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 4:22, 12:13, 12:19, 20:2, 20:5, 20:12, 24:60, 26:7, 26:9, 30:8, 34:31, 36:22, 46:17
- Exodus — 2:4, 2:7, 15:20
- Leviticus — 18:11, 18:18, 21:3
- Numbers — 6:7
- Judges — 15:2
- 2 Samuel — 13:1, 13:5, 13:6, 13:11, 13:20
- 1 Kings — 11:20
- 2 Kings — 11:2
- 1 Chronicles — 2:16, 3:9, 3:19, 7:18, 7:30
- 2 Chronicles — 22:11
- Tobit — 5:21, 5:21, 6:18, 7:11, 7:15, 7:15, 8:4, 8:4, 10:6, 10:12
- Song of Solomon — 4:9, 4:12, 5:1, 5:2, 8:8
- Ezekiel — 16:46, 16:55, 16:56, 23:4, 23:11, 44:25
- Hosea — 2:1
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 2 — 2:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 12:50
- Mark — 3:35
- Luke — 10:39, 10:40
- John — 11:39, 19:25
- 1 Corinthians — 7:15
- Philemon — 1:2
- James — 2:15
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.
- ἈΔΕΛΦΑΙ — sisters
- ἈΔΕΛΦΕ — brother, O brother
- 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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