ἈΔΕΛΦΕ, ἀδελφε
ADELPHE, adelphe
Sounds Like: ah-del-FEH
Translations: brother, O brother
From the root: ἈΔΕΛΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a male sibling or a close kinsman. In a broader sense, it can also refer to a fellow countryman, a fellow believer, or a close associate. It is used here in the vocative case, which is used for direct address, similar to calling out to someone.
Inflection: Singular, Vocative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G80 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:120
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 7 — 8:168
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 33:9
- 2 Samuel — 1:26, 13:12, 20:9
- 1 Kings — 9:13, 13:30
- Tobit — 5:10, 5:11, 5:11, 5:12, 5:12, 5:14, 5:14, 5:17, 6:7, 6:7, 6:11, 6:11, 6:13, 6:14, 6:14, 6:16, 6:16, 7:1, 7:9, 7:9, 7:10, 9:2, 9:2, 10:12, 10:12, 11:2
- 4 Maccabees — 13:11, 13:18
- Jeremiah — 22:18
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, 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
- 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
- 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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