2001 Translation

ADELPHOI, adelphoi

Sounds Like: ah-del-FOY

Translations: brothers, fellow believers, kinsmen, countrymen

From the root: ἈΔΕΛΦΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to brothers by birth, but it can also be used more broadly to refer to male relatives, fellow countrymen, or, in a spiritual sense, fellow believers in a community. It is a plural form of the word for 'brother'.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G0080 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 2:10, 3:6, 4:14, 5:5, 6:10, 6:15

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 4:7, 13:1, 14:1, 33:1, 38:3, 41:1, 41:2, 41:4, 43:4, 43:4, 45:1, 45:6, 46:1, 52:1, 62:1

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 10:3, 16:1
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 3:3, 5:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 2:53, 19:296, 21:339
• Book 2 — 6:102, 6:106, 6:111, 6:159, 8:199
• Book 6 — 6:130
• Book 7 — 1:14, 11:277, 14:371
• Book 12 — 6:202, 6:218, 6:221, 8:353, 10:404, 11:432
• Book 13 — 6:198, 13:371
• Book 17 — 10:279, 10:281
• Book 18 — 9:314
• Book 19 — 6:297

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 24:21, 25:7, 31:19
• Book Two — 4:6, 20:1
• Book Three — 7:102

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 52:2, 58:3, 85:8, 96:2, 137:1

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 3:1
• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 1:1, 4:1, 22:1

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 1:1, 4:3, 5:1, 5:5, 7:1, 8:4, 9:11, 10:1, 11:5, 13:1, 14:1, 14:3, 16:1, 19:1, 20:2

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 17:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 13:8, 19:7, 24:55, 29:4, 34:14, 34:25, 37:4, 37:8, 37:10, 37:11, 37:12, 37:13, 37:14, 37:27, 38:11, 42:3, 42:6, 42:13, 42:32, 44:14, 45:3, 45:15, 45:16, 46:31, 47:1, 47:5, 49:5, 49:8, 50:8, 50:14, 50:15, 50:22
• Exodus — 1:6
• Leviticus — 10:6
• Numbers — 27:10, 27:11, 32:6
• Deuteronomy — 1:28, 18:7, 25:5
• Joshua — 14:8
• Judges — 8:19, 9:3, 9:26, 9:31, 16:31, 19:23, 21:22
• 1 Samuel — 20:29, 22:1
• 2 Samuel — 4:6, 6:3, 6:4, 15:34, 19:12, 19:41
• 2 Kings — 1:18, 10:13
• 1 Chronicles — 5:7, 5:13, 6:48, 7:5, 7:22, 7:35, 9:6, 9:9, 9:13, 9:17, 9:19, 9:25, 12:32, 12:39, 13:7, 15:5, 15:6, 15:7, 15:8, 15:9, 15:10, 15:12, 15:18, 16:38, 23:22, 24:31, 25:9, 25:10, 25:11, 25:12, 25:13, 25:14, 25:15, 25:16, 25:17, 25:18, 25:19, 25:20, 25:21, 25:22, 25:23, 25:24, 25:25, 25:26, 25:27, 25:28, 25:29, 25:30, 25:31, 26:8, 26:9, 26:11, 26:12, 26:20, 26:22, 26:26, 26:30, 26:32, 27:7, 28:2
• 2 Chronicles — 21:2, 29:34, 30:7, 30:9, 35:15
• Ezra (Alpha) — 1:15, 5:3, 5:47, 5:54, 5:56
• Ezra (Beta) — 3:2, 3:9, 8:18, 8:19, 10:18
• Nehemiah — 3:1, 3:18, 5:10, 5:14, 10:10, 11:12, 11:14, 11:19, 12:7, 12:8, 12:12, 12:24, 12:36
• Judith — 7:30, 8:14, 8:24, 14:1
• Tobit — 1:5, 1:10, 1:10, 2:10, 5:14, 6:18, 7:1, 7:3, 7:3, 14:4, 14:4
• 1 Maccabees — 2:20, 2:40, 2:41, 3:2, 3:42, 4:36, 4:59, 5:13, 5:63, 5:65, 7:6, 8:20, 9:39, 10:15, 12:7, 12:21, 13:3, 13:4, 14:26, 14:29, 14:40, 16:2, 16:21
• 2 Maccabees — 1:1, 7:36, 7:37
• 4 Maccabees — 8:3, 8:19, 9:23, 11:20, 13:1, 13:9, 13:20, 13:23, 17:13
• Psalms — 151:5
• Proverbs — 17:17
• Song of Solomon — 5:1
• Job — 19:13, 42:11
• Sirach — 40:24
• Isaiah — 66:5
• Jeremiah — 12:6
• Ezekiel — 11:15

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 2 — 4:1
• Vision 3 — 1:1, 1:4, 10:3
• Vision 4 — 1:1, 1:5, 1:8

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 12:46, 12:47, 12:48, 12:49, 13:55, 22:25, 23:8
• Mark — 3:31, 3:32, 3:33, 3:34, 12:20
• Luke — 8:19, 8:20, 8:21, 20:29
• John — 2:12, 7:3, 7:5, 7:10
• Acts — 1:16, 2:29, 2:37, 3:17, 6:3, 7:2, 7:26, 9:30, 11:1, 11:12, 13:15, 13:26, 13:38, 15:7, 15:13, 15:23, 17:10, 17:14, 18:27, 21:17, 22:1, 23:1, 23:5, 23:6, 28:15, 28:17
• Romans — 1:13, 7:1, 7:4, 8:12, 10:1, 11:25, 12:1, 15:14, 15:30, 16:17
• 1 Corinthians — 1:10, 1:11, 1:26, 2:1, 3:1, 4:6, 7:24, 7:29, 9:5, 10:1, 11:33, 12:1, 14:6, 14:20, 14:26, 14:39, 15:1, 15:31, 15:50, 15:58, 16:15, 16:20
• 2 Corinthians — 1:8, 8:1, 8:23, 11:9, 13:11
• Galatians — 1:2, 1:11, 3:15, 4:12, 4:28, 4:31, 5:11, 5:13, 6:1, 6:18
• Philippians — 1:12, 3:1, 3:13, 3:17, 4:1, 4:8, 4:21
• 1 Thessalonians — 1:4, 2:1, 2:9, 2:14, 2:17, 3:7, 4:1, 4:10, 4:13, 5:1, 5:4, 5:12, 5:14, 5:25
• 2 Thessalonians — 1:3, 2:1, 2:13, 2:15, 3:1, 3:6, 3:13
• 1 Timothy — 6:2
• 2 Timothy — 4:21
• Hebrews — 3:1, 3:12, 10:19, 13:22
• James — 1:2, 1:16, 1:19, 2:1, 2:5, 2:14, 3:1, 3:10, 3:12, 4:11, 5:7, 5:9, 5:10, 5:12, 5:19
• 2 Peter — 1:10
• 1 John — 3:13
• Revelation — 6:11

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
• 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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