Gloss
brother, fellow countryman, neighbor (often inclusive in gender); by extension a fellow believer in the family of faith; in the plural brothers regularly refers to men and women
Forms of the word
Dictionary
ἀδελφός, -οῦ, ὁ
Greek transliteration
adelphos
Simplified transliteration
adelphos
Numbers
Strong's number
80
GK Number
81
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
343
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
n-2a
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for ἀδελφός
| Acts 18:27 | And when he wanted to continue on into Achaia, the brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | nom pl masc) encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived there, he greatly helped those who had come to believe through grace, |
| Acts 21:7 | And having completed the voyage from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and we greeted the brothers (adelphous | ἀδελφούς | acc pl masc) and stayed one day with them. |
| Acts 21:17 | When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | nom pl masc) welcomed us gladly. |
| Acts 21:20 | And when they heard it, they began to praise God. And they said to him, “You see, brother (adelphe | ἀδελφέ | voc sg masc), how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all zealous for the law. |
| Acts 22:1 | “My brothers and fathers, listen now to me as I make my defense to you.” |
| Acts 22:5 | as also the high priest and the whole council of elders can bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brothers (adelphous | ἀδελφούς | acc pl masc), and I went toward Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished. |
| Acts 22:13 | came to me, and standing there said to me, ‘Brother (adelphe | ἀδελφέ | voc sg masc) Saul, recover your sight.’ And at that very hour I recovered my sight and saw him. |
| Acts 23:1 | Looking intently at the council, Paul said, “My brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God up to this day.” |
| Acts 23:5 | And Paul said, “I did not realize, brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), that he was high priest; for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’” |
| Acts 23:6 | Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is regarding my hope of a resurrection for the dead that I am on trial.” |
| Acts 28:14 | where we found brethren (adelphous | ἀδελφούς | acc pl masc), and were invited to stay with them seven days. And so we went toward Rome. |
| Acts 28:15 | And the brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | nom pl masc) there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. On seeing them, Paul gave thanks to God and took courage. |
| Acts 28:17 | And it happened that after three days Paul called together the leaders of the Jews. And when they gathered, he said to them: “My brothers, though I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. |
| Acts 28:21 | And they said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers (adelphōn | ἀδελφῶν | gen pl masc) come from there and reported or spoken any bad about you. |
| Romans 1:13 | I want you to know, brethren (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), that I often intended to come to you (but have been prevented until now) so that I might have some fruit among you, just as among the rest of the Gentiles. |
| Romans 7:1 | Or do you not know, brethren (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc) (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is binding on a person only so long as he lives? |
| Romans 7:4 | So then, my brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), you also have died to the law through the body of Christ that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit for God. |
| Romans 8:12 | So then, brethren (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh, |
| Romans 8:29 | because those he foreknew he also predestined to become conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (adelphois | ἀδελφοῖς | dat pl masc). |
| Romans 9:3 | For I could wish that I myself were accursed, cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brethren (adelphōn | ἀδελφῶν | gen pl masc), my kinsmen according to the flesh, |
| Romans 10:1 | Brethren (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. |
| Romans 11:25 | I do not want you to be uninformed, my brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), of this mystery — so that you may not be wise in your own conceits — that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. |
| Romans 12:1 | I appeal you therefore, brethren (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God — this is a reasonable act of worship for you. |
| Romans 14:10 | Why do you pass judgment on your brother (adelphon | ἀδελφόν | acc sg masc)? Or again, why do you hold your brother (adelphon | ἀδελφόν | acc sg masc) in contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. |
| Romans 14:13 | Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another, but resolve instead, never to put an obstacle or a trap in a brother’s (adelphō | ἀδελφῷ | dat sg masc) way. |
