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Lexicon :: Strong's G79 - adelphē

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ἀδελφή
Transliteration
adelphē (Key)
Pronunciation
ad-el-fay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:144,22

Strong’s Definitions

ἀδελφή adelphḗ, ad-el-fay'; feminine of G80; a sister (naturally or ecclesiastically):—sister.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x

The KJV translates Strong's G79 in the following manner: sister (24x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x
The KJV translates Strong's G79 in the following manner: sister (24x).

  1. a full, own sister

  2. one connected by the tie of the Christian religion

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀδελφή adelphḗ, ad-el-fay'; feminine of G80; a sister (naturally or ecclesiastically):—sister.
STRONGS G79:
ἀδελφή, -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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
13:56; 19:29
Mark
6:3
Luke
10:39
John
11:1; 11:3; 11:5; 19:25
Romans
16:1; 16:15
1 Corinthians
7:15; 9:5
Philemon
1:2
James
2:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G79 matches the Greek ἀδελφή (adelphē),
which occurs 102 times in 93 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:22 - Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of[fn] bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:13 - Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19 - Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5 - Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and didn’t she also say, ‘He is my brother’? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12 - Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30 - As soon as he had seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you increase to thousands upon thousands; may your offspring possess the cities of their enemies.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram[fn] and sister of Laban the Aramean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:8 - Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 - Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:14 - They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where[fn] their sister had been defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31 - But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:3 - also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:22 - The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam.[fn] Timna was Lotan’s sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:17 - The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah. Their sister was Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:4 - His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:7 - Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:20 - Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:23 - Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:20 - Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:11 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:12 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:13 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, because she is your mother’s close relative.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:18 - “ ‘Do not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17 - “ ‘If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19 - “ ‘Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband—for her he may make himself unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - Even if their own father or mother or brother or sister dies, they must not make themselves ceremonially unclean on account of them, because the symbol of their dedication to God is on their head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:18 - They treated you as enemies when they deceived you in the Peor incident involving their sister Kozbi, the daughter of a Midianite leader, the woman who was killed when the plague came as a result of that incident.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:59

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:59 - the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, a descendant of Levi, who was born to the Levites[fn] in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses and their sister Miriam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22 - “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:23 - “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - “I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:1 - In the course of time, Amnon son of David fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Absalom son of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:2 - Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill. She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:4 - He asked Amnon, “Why do you, the king’s son, look so haggard morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - “Go to bed and pretend to be ill,” Jonadab said. “When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘I would like my sister Tamar to come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I may watch her and then eat it from her hand.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:6 - So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him, “I would like my sister Tamar to come and make some special bread in my sight, so I may eat from her hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:11 - But when she took it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, “Come to bed with me, my sister.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:20 - Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has that Amnon, your brother, been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister; he is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.” And Tamar lived in her brother Absalom’s house, a desolate woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:22 - And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad; he hated Amnon because he had disgraced his sister Tamar.

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