2001 Translation

ADELPHŌ, adelphō

Sounds Like: ah-del-PHO

Translations: to brother, to a brother, to fellow believer, to a fellow believer, to countryman, to a countryman

From the root: ἈΔΕΛΦΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a brother by birth, but it is also commonly used in a broader sense to refer to a fellow countryman, a fellow human being, or, especially in a religious context, a fellow believer or disciple. It is a dative form, indicating the indirect object of an action, often translated with 'to' or 'for'.

Inflection: Dative, Singular, Masculine

Strong’s number: G0080 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Unknown: Yes

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:7

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 19:4

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 15:101

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 20:326, 20:327
• Book 2 — 1:1, 2:17
• Book 7 — 1:35, 1:36, 6:124, 8:172, 8:180, 10:233, 11:287, 14:373
• Book 8 — 14:386
• Book 9 — 4:45
• Book 10 — 5:82
• Book 12 — 5:237, 5:238, 6:187
• Book 13 — 1:5, 2:45, 7:126, 13:366
• Book 14 — 9:161, 14:387
• Book 15 — 10:362
• Book 16 — 5:144
• Book 17 — 2:40, 4:67, 4:74, 8:189
• Book 18 — 5:123, 5:134, 5:136, 5:140, 9:332
• Book 19 — 5:277, 9:354
• Book 20 — 3:73

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 4:15, 27:4
• Book Two — 17:37
• Book Five — 4:27

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 27:1

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 2:8, 9:41

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 4:21, 10:21, 10:25, 20:16, 22:20, 22:23, 24:53, 27:40, 32:13, 38:8, 38:9, 43:30
• Exodus — 7:9, 7:19, 8:5, 22:25, 28:2, 32:29
• Leviticus — 21:2
• Numbers — 6:7, 27:9, 27:10
• Deuteronomy — 15:9, 15:11, 22:1, 23:19, 23:20
• Judges — 1:3
• 2 Samuel — 4:9, 13:10
• 1 Kings — 2:15, 2:21
• 1 Chronicles — 26:25
• Nehemiah — 7:2
• Tobit — 1:14, 1:14, 5:6, 7:2
• 1 Maccabees — 5:17, 9:37, 10:18, 11:30
• 2 Maccabees — 11:22
• Job — 1:18, 41:8
• Sirach — 7:12, 30:28
• Isaiah — 41:6
• Ezekiel — 33:30, 44:25
• Hosea — 2:1

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 5:22, 5:24, 7:4, 18:35, 22:24, 22:25
• Mark — 12:19
• Luke — 6:42, 12:13, 20:28
• Romans — 14:13
• 1 Corinthians — 7:14
• Colossians — 4:9

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 4:8

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
• 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
• 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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