2001 Translation

ADELPHON, adelphon

Sounds Like: ah-del-FON

Translations: brother, a brother, fellowman, countryman, kinsman

From the root: ἈΔΕΛΦΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a brother by birth, but it can also be used more broadly to refer to a fellow countryman, a kinsman, or a spiritual brother (such as a fellow believer in a religious community). It is often used in the New Testament to address members of the Christian community. In a sentence, it would function as the direct object of a verb or the object of a preposition when in the accusative case.

Inflection: Masculine, Singular, Accusative

Strong’s number: G80 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:2, 2:23, 11:12

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 4:6, 31:4

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 15:98, 21:158

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 2:53, 2:55, 7:154, 18:276, 20:335
• Book 2 — 1:3, 3:20, 3:23, 3:25, 3:26, 3:30, 6:99, 6:105, 6:106, 6:116, 6:134, 6:135, 6:155, 6:161, 6:162
• Book 3 — 2:54
• Book 4 — 2:21, 2:24
• Book 6 — 9:178
• Book 7 — 1:15, 1:17, 5:109, 6:125, 11:283
• Book 8 — 1:5, 1:9
• Book 11 — 4:79, 7:299, 7:300, 8:306, 8:309, 8:322
• Book 12 — 6:188, 6:197, 6:283, 8:332
• Book 13 — 1:5, 1:8, 1:10, 1:18, 1:28, 2:46, 5:146, 5:154, 6:200, 6:204, 6:205, 6:206, 7:219, 9:256, 10:270, 10:272, 10:274, 11:303, 13:370, 14:384
• Book 14 — 1:4, 1:6, 1:11, 3:50, 8:142, 11:295, 13:353, 13:369, 14:371, 14:374, 14:390, 15:413, 15:438, 15:451
• Book 15 — 2:12, 3:41, 4:89, 4:105, 7:222, 7:260
• Book 16 — 7:195, 7:197, 7:211, 7:212, 7:215, 7:218, 8:249, 8:250, 8:266
• Book 17 — 1:7, 2:38, 3:47, 3:49, 6:164, 9:225, 11:318, 12:326, 13:339, 13:352
• Book 18 — 7:253, 7:255, 9:327, 9:329
• Book 19 — 1:4
• Book 20 — 2:33, 4:93, 7:137, 9:200, 10:225

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 4:3, 11:12, 13:1, 13:2, 14:15, 14:24, 17:1, 18:1, 23:7, 24:9, 30:6, 30:12, 30:13, 31:17, 34:18
• Book Two — 2:8, 3:8, 7:16, 11:14, 12:25, 13:1
• Book Four — 10:15

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 58:10

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 35:178, 38:190, 39:195, 40:201, 75:419

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 17:2

Pseudo-Baruch

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

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 4:2, 4:8, 14:16, 22:21, 27:6, 27:41, 27:43, 28:5, 29:1, 32:3, 32:6, 37:19, 37:26, 42:4, 42:16, 42:20, 42:21, 42:33, 42:34, 43:4, 43:5, 43:7, 43:13, 43:14, 43:16, 43:29, 43:33, 44:19
• Exodus — 10:23, 28:1, 28:37, 29:5, 32:27
• Leviticus — 16:2, 19:17, 25:46, 26:37
• Numbers — 25:6
• Deuteronomy — 15:2, 28:54
• Judges — 9:24, 21:6
• 1 Samuel — 26:6
• 2 Samuel — 2:23, 3:30, 14:6, 14:7
• 1 Kings — 1:10
• 2 Kings — 7:6
• 1 Chronicles — 20:5
• 2 Chronicles — 36:4, 36:10
• Ezra (Alpha) — 1:35, 1:36
• Nehemiah — 5:7
• Tobit — 5:6, 7:1, 7:4, 7:4
• 1 Maccabees — 9:19, 9:35, 9:65, 11:59, 11:64
• 2 Maccabees — 4:23, 4:26, 4:29, 10:37
• 4 Maccabees — 4:16
• Psalms — 34:14
• Proverbs — 19:4
• Sirach — 7:18, 29:10, 45:6
• Isaiah — 9:19, 19:2
• Jeremiah — 13:14, 23:35, 32:12, 38:34, 41:14
• Ezekiel — 24:23, 38:21
• Hosea — 12:3
• Amos — 1:11
• Haggai — 2:22
• Zechariah — 7:9
• Malachi — 2:10

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 4:18, 4:21, 10:21, 17:1, 18:15
• Mark — 1:16, 1:19, 3:17, 5:37, 13:12
• Luke — 6:14
• John — 1:42
• Acts — 12:2
• Romans — 14:10
• 1 Corinthians — 8:13
• 2 Corinthians — 2:13, 8:18, 8:22, 12:18
• Galatians — 1:19
• Philippians — 2:25
• 1 Thessalonians — 3:2, 4:6
• 2 Thessalonians — 3:15
• Philemon — 1:16
• Hebrews — 8:11, 13:23
• James — 4:11
• 1 John — 2:9, 2:10, 2:11, 3:10, 3:12, 3:15, 3:17, 4:20, 4:21, 5:16

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
• ἈΔΕΛΦΟΙΣ — to brothers, to brethren, to fellow countrymen, to fellow believers
• 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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