Lexical Summary adelphē: sister Original Word: ἀδελφήTransliteration: adelphē Phonetic Spelling: (ad-el-fay') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: sister Meaning: sister Strong's Concordance sister. Fem of adephos; a sister (naturally or ecclesiastically) -- sister. see GREEK adephos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 79: ἀδελφήἀδελφή, (ῆς, ἡ (see ἀδελφός) (from Aeschylus down), sister; 1. a full, own sister (i. e. by birth): Matthew 19:29; Luke 10:39; John 11:1, 3, 5; John 19:25; Romans 16:15, etc.; respecting the sisters of Christ, mentioned in Matthew 13:56; Mark 6:3, see ἀδελφός, 1. 2. one connected by the tie of the Christian religion: 1 Corinthians 7:15; 1 Corinthians 9:5; Philemon 1:2 L T Tr WH; James 2:15; with a subjective genitive, a Christian woman especially dear to one, Romans 16:1. |
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