ἈΔΕΛΦΗΣ, ἀδελφης
ADELPHĒS, adelphēs
Sounds Like: ah-del-FESS
Translations: of a sister, of the sister, of sister
From the root: ἈΔΕΛΦΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is a noun referring to a female sibling, a sister. It can also be used more broadly to refer to a female fellow believer, a fellow countrywoman, or a close female associate. In this form, it indicates possession or origin, often translated with 'of'.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0080 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:45
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 12:207, 19:299, 19:305, 19:306, 19:307, 19:310, 19:316, 21:339
- Book 2 — 10:249
- Book 3 — 2:54, 6:105
- Book 4 — 4:82
- Book 6 — 13:311
- Book 7 — 1:11, 8:165, 11:261
- Book 9 — 6:112
- Book 12 — 2:55, 6:160
- Book 13 — 3:69
- Book 15 — 7:258, 7:266
- Book 16 — 4:97, 7:225
- Book 17 — 1:22, 2:40, 4:68
- Book 18 — 5:130, 5:133
- Book 19 — 1:102
- Book 20 — 2:18, 7:143
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 24:30, 29:13
- Leviticus — 18:9, 18:12, 18:13, 20:17, 20:19
- Deuteronomy — 27:22, 27:23
- 1 Chronicles — 4:3, 4:19, 7:15
- Tobit — 8:21
- Ezekiel — 16:49, 23:11, 23:18, 23:31, 23:32, 23:33
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:60
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
- ἈΔΕΛΦΗΝ — sister, a sister
- ΤΗΝἈΔΕΛΦΗΝ — the sister, a sister
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