2001 Translation

ADELPHOIS, adelphois

Sounds Like: ah-del-FOYS

Translations: to brothers, to brethren, to fellow countrymen, to fellow believers

From the root: ἈΔΕΛΦΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to brothers, both literal siblings and, more broadly, fellow members of a community, nation, or faith. It is often used in a figurative sense to denote close associates or fellow believers, emphasizing a bond of kinship or shared identity. In this dative plural form, it indicates the indirect object of an action, meaning 'to or for brothers/brethren'.

Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G0080 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 11:11

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Smyrnaeans — 12:1
• Ignatius’ Letter to Polycarp — 5:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 6:141
• Book 2 — 2:11, 2:16, 3:32, 3:35, 3:38, 6:109, 6:121, 6:123, 6:160, 8:195
• Book 3 — 12:277
• Book 6 — 9:176, 9:177
• Book 7 — 4:79, 8:174
• Book 10 — 10:201
• Book 12 — 6:219, 6:220
• Book 13 — 1:11, 5:166, 6:211, 10:271, 10:273, 13:371
• Book 17 — 1:17, 5:88, 5:113, 5:117
• Book 19 — 6:298
• Book 20 — 3:74

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 3:9, 25:1, 29:1
• Book Two — 4:8, 8:6

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 91:1, 98:5, 106:2, 139:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 9:22, 9:25, 31:46, 37:5, 37:9, 42:28, 45:1, 45:17, 47:3, 47:12, 50:24
• Deuteronomy — 10:9, 18:2, 33:16, 33:24
• Joshua — 17:4
• Judges — 18:8
• 1 Chronicles — 4:27, 5:2, 12:2
• 2 Chronicles — 5:12, 11:22, 31:15, 35:5, 35:6, 35:14
• Ezra (Alpha) — 1:6, 1:12, 1:13, 3:21, 4:61, 5:56, 7:12, 8:45, 8:74
• Ezra (Beta) — 6:20
• Nehemiah — 13:13
• Judith — 8:24
• Tobit — 1:3, 1:3, 1:16, 1:16, 11:17, 14:7
• 1 Maccabees — 2:17, 5:16, 5:25, 9:44, 12:6, 13:28, 14:20
• 2 Maccabees — 1:1, 7:29, 7:38, 11:7
• 4 Maccabees — 10:13
• Psalms — 21:23, 68:9, 151:1
• Proverbs — 17:2
• Job — 42:15
• Jeremiah — 9:4

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 3 — 3:1

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 28:10
• Acts — 1:14, 7:13, 11:29, 12:17, 15:3, 15:22, 15:23, 18:18
• Romans — 8:29
• 1 Corinthians — 15:6
• Ephesians — 6:23
• Colossians — 1:2
• 1 Thessalonians — 5:27
• 1 Timothy — 4:6
• Hebrews — 2:12, 2:17

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
• 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
• 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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