ἈΔΕΛΦΗΝ, ἀδελφην
ADELPHĒN, adelphēn
Sounds Like: ah-del-FEN
Translations: sister, a sister
From the root: ἈΔΕΛΦΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a female sibling. 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 to denote a biological sister, or metaphorically, a fellow believer or a close female companion.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0080 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 20:147
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 8:165, 12:208, 12:209, 19:303, 21:340
- Book 4 — 4:78, 4:84
- Book 6 — 11:210
- Book 7 — 8:165, 8:166, 8:168, 8:169, 8:174
- Book 8 — 7:201
- Book 14 — 13:353
- Book 15 — 4:89, 6:184, 6:185, 7:220, 7:239, 7:254
- Book 16 — 7:218
- Book 17 — 1:7, 6:147, 6:175
- Book 18 — 6:148, 7:253
- Book 19 — 4:251
- Book 20 — 7:139
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 37:186
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 12:5
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 24:59, 24:60, 25:20, 28:9, 30:1, 34:13, 34:14, 34:27, 36:3
- Exodus — 6:20, 6:23
- Leviticus — 20:17
- Numbers — 25:18, 26:59
- 2 Samuel — 13:2, 13:4, 13:22, 13:32
- 1 Kings — 11:19, 12:24
- 1 Chronicles — 7:32
- Tobit — 7:9, 7:11, 8:7, 8:7
- 3 Maccabees — 1:1
- Proverbs — 7:4
- Job — 17:14
- Ezekiel — 22:11
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
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.
- ἈΔΕΛΦΑΣ — sisters, the sisters
- ἈΔΕΛΦΗΣ — of a sister, of the sister, of sister
- ΤΗΝἈΔΕΛΦΗΝ — the sister, a sister
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