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
| 1 Corinthians 8:13 | Therefore, if food causes my brother (adelphon | ἀδελφόν | acc sg masc) to stumble, again I will never eat meat, lest I cause one of (adelphon | ἀδελφόν | acc sg masc) them to stumble. |
| 1 Corinthians 9:5 | Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, as also the other apostles, the Lord’s brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | nom pl masc), and Cephas do? |
| 1 Corinthians 10:1 | For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, |
| 1 Corinthians 11:33 | So then, my brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), when you come together to eat, wait for one another. |
| 1 Corinthians 12:1 | Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), I do not want you to be uninformed. |
| 1 Corinthians 14:6 | But as it is, brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I impart to you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? |
| 1 Corinthians 14:20 | Brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), do not be children in your thinking. Rather, in evil be infants but in your thinking be adults. |
| 1 Corinthians 14:26 | What then is the outcome, brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc)? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue, an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. |
| 1 Corinthians 14:39 | So, my brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:1 | Now I make known to you, brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), the gospel that I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, |
| 1 Corinthians 15:6 | Then he appeared to (adelphois | ἀδελφοῖς | dat pl masc) more than five hundred brothers (adelphois | ἀδελφοῖς | dat pl masc) at the same time, most of whom are still living, although some have fallen asleep. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:31 | Every day I am in danger of dying! I swear by my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:50 | Now this I declare, brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:58 | So then, my dear brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. |
| 1 Corinthians 16:11 | So no one should treat him with contempt. Help him continue his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I am expecting him with the brothers (adelphōn | ἀδελφῶν | gen pl masc). |
| 1 Corinthians 16:12 | Now concerning Apollos our brother: (adelphou | ἀδελφοῦ | gen sg masc) I strongly urged him to go to you with the other brothers (adelphōn | ἀδελφῶν | gen pl masc), but it was not at all his intention to go now. He will go when he has an opportunity. |
| 1 Corinthians 16:15 | You know that the household of Stephanus were the first converts in the province of Achaia, and that they devoted themselves to the service of the saints. So I urge you, brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), |
| 1 Corinthians 16:20 | All the brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | nom pl masc) send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss. |
| 2 Corinthians 1:1 | Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother (adelphos | ἀδελφός | nom sg masc), to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia: |
| 2 Corinthians 1:8 | For we want you to know, brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), about the affliction we suffered in Asia, that we were burdened excessively beyond our power to cope, so that we despaired even of living. |
| 2 Corinthians 2:13 | I had no relief for my spirit, because I could not find my brother (adelphon | ἀδελφόν | acc sg masc) Titus there. So I said good-bye to them and went on to Macedonia. |
| 2 Corinthians 8:1 | We want you to know, brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | voc pl masc), about the grace of God shown among the churches of Macedonia, |
| 2 Corinthians 8:18 | And we sent along with him the brother (adelphon | ἀδελφόν | acc sg masc) who is highly respected throughout all the churches for his work in the gospel. |
| 2 Corinthians 8:22 | And we are sending along with them our brother (adelphon | ἀδελφόν | acc sg masc) whom we have often tested in many matters and found to be eager, and now he is all the more eager because of his great confidence in you. |
| 2 Corinthians 8:23 | As for Titus, he is my companion and fellow worker among you. As for our brothers (adelphoi | ἀδελφοί | nom pl masc), they are delegates of the churches, an honor to Christ. |
