LSB

LSB

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's G80 - adelphos

Choose a new font size and typeface
ἀδελφός
Transliteration
adelphos (Key)
Pronunciation
ad-el-fos'
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἄλφα (G1) (as a connective particle) and delphus (the womb)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:144,22

Strong’s Definitions

ἀδελφός adelphós, ad-el-fos'; from G1 (as a connective particle) and δελφύς delphýs (the womb); a brother (literally or figuratively) near or remote (much like G1):—brother.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 346x

The KJV translates Strong's G80 in the following manner: brethren (226x), brother (113x), brother's (6x), brother's way (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 346x
The KJV translates Strong's G80 in the following manner: brethren (226x), brother (113x), brother's (6x), brother's way (1x).
  1. a brother, whether born of the same two parents or only of the same father or mother

  2. having the same national ancestor, belonging to the same people, or countryman

  3. any fellow or man

  4. a fellow believer, united to another by the bond of affection

  5. an associate in employment or office

  6. brethren in Christ

    1. his brothers by blood

    2. all men

    3. apostles

    4. Christians, as those who are exalted to the same heavenly place

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀδελφός adelphós, ad-el-fos'; from G1 (as a connective particle) and δελφύς delphýs (the womb); a brother (literally or figuratively) near or remote (much like G1):—brother.
STRONGS G80:
ἀδελφός, -οῦ, (from α copulative and δελφύς, from the same womb; cf. ἀγάστωρ) [from Homer down];
1. a brother (whether born of the same two parents, or only of the same father or the same mother): Matthew 1:2; Matthew 4:18, and often. That 'the brethren of Jesus,' Matthew 12:46, 47 [but WH only in marginal reading]; Matthew 13:55f; Mark 6:3 (in the last two passages also sisters); Luke 8:19; John 2:12; John 7:3; Acts 1:14; Galatians 1:19; 1 Corinthians 9:5, are neither sons of Joseph by a wife married before Mary (which is the account in the Apocryphal Gospels [cf. Thilo, Cod. Apocr. N. T. i. 362f]), nor cousins, the children of Alphæus or Cleophas [i. e. Clopas] and Mary a sister of the mother of Jesus (the current opinion among the doctors of the church since Jerome and Augustine [cf. Bp. Lightfoot's Commentary on Galatians, diss. ii.]), according to that use of language by which ἀδελφός like the Hebrew אָח denotes any blood-relation or kinsman (Genesis 14:16; 1 Samuel 20:29; 2 Kings 10:13; 1 Chronicles 23:22, etc.), but own brothers, born after Jesus, is clear principally from Matthew 1:25 [only in R G]; Luke 2:7 — where, had Mary borne no other children after Jesus, instead of υἱὸν πρωτότοκον, the expression υἱὸν μονογενῆ would have been used, as well as from Acts 1:14, cf. John 7:5, where the Lord's brethren are distinguished from the apostles.
See further on this point under Ἰάκωβος, 3. [Cf. B. D. under the word Brother; Andrews, Life of our Lord, pp. 104-116; Bib. Sacr. for 1864, pp. 855-869; for 1869, pp. 745-758; Laurent, N. T. Studien, pp. 153-193; McClellan, note on Matthew 13:55.]
2. according to a Hebrew use of אָח (Exodus 2:11; Exodus 4:18, etc.), hardly to be met with in secular authors, having the same national ancestor, belonging to the same people, countryman; so the Jews (as the σπέρμα Ἀβραάμ, υἱοἰ Ἰσραήλ, cf. Acts 13:26; [in Deuteronomy 15:3 opposed to ἀλλότριος, cf. Acts 17:15; Acts 15:12; Philo de septen. § 9 at the beginning]) are called ἀδελφοί: Matthew 5:47; Acts 3:22 (Deuteronomy 18:15); Acts 7:23; 22:5; 28:15, 21; Romans 9:3; in address, Acts 2:29; Acts 3:17; Acts 23:1; Hebrews 7:5.
3. just as in Leviticus 19:17 the word אָח is used interchangeably with רֵַעַ (but, as Leviticus 19:16, 18 show, in speaking of Israelites), so in the sayings of Christ, Matthew 5:22, 24; Matthew 7:3ff, ἀδελφός is used for πλησίον to denote (as appears from Luke 10:29ff) any fellow-man — as having one and the same father with others, viz. God (Hebrews 2:11), and as descended from the same first ancestor (Acts 17:26); cf. Epictetus diss. 1, 13, 3.
4. a fellow-believer, united to another by the bond of affection; so most frequently of Christians, constituting as it were but a single family: Matthew 23:8; John 21:23; Acts 6:3 [Lachmann omits]; Acts 9:30; 11:1; Galatians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 5:11; Philippians 1:14, etc.; in courteous address, Romans 1:13; Romans 7:1; 1 Corinthians 1:10; 1 John 2:7 Rec., and often elsewhere; yet in the phraseology of John it has reference to the new life unto which men are begotten again by the efficiency of a common father, even God: 1 John 2:9ff; 1 John 3:10, 14; etc., cf. 1 John 5:1.
5. an associate in employment or office: 1 Corinthians 1:1; 2 Corinthians 1:1; 2 Corinthians 2:13 (12); Ephesians 6:21; Colossians 1:1.
6. brethren of Christ is used of,
a. his brothers by blood; see 1 above.
b. all men: Matthew 25:40 [Lachmann brackets]; Hebrews 2:11f [others refer these examples to d.]
c. apostles: Matthew 28:10; John 20:17.
d. Christians, as those who are destined to be exalted to the same heavenly δόξα (which see, III. 4 b.) which he enjoys: Romans 8:29.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
14:16
Exodus
2:11; 4:18
Leviticus
19:16; 19:17; 19:18
Deuteronomy
15:3; 18:15
1 Samuel
20:29
2 Kings
10:13
1 Chronicles
23:22
Matthew
1:2; 1:25; 4:18; 5:22; 5:24; 5:47; 7:3; 12:46; 12:47; 13:55; 13:55; 23:8; 25:40; 28:10
Mark
6:3
Luke
2:7; 8:19; 10:29
John
2:12; 7:3; 7:5; 20:17; 21:23
Acts
1:14; 1:14; 2:29; 3:17; 3:22; 6:3; 7:23; 9:30; 11:1; 13:26; 15:12; 17:15; 17:26; 22:5; 23:1; 28:15; 28:21
Romans
1:13; 7:1; 8:29; 9:3
1 Corinthians
1:1; 1:10; 5:11; 9:5
2 Corinthians
1:1; 2:13
Galatians
1:2; 1:19
Ephesians
6:21
Philippians
1:14
Colossians
1:1
Hebrews
2:11; 2:11; 7:5
1 John
2:7; 2:9; 3:10; 3:14; 5:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G80 matches the Greek ἀδελφός (adelphos),
which occurs 346 times in 319 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 4 / 7 (Rom 14:21–2Co 9:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:21 - It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother G80 stumbles.
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:14 -

But I myself am also convinced about you, my brothers G80, that you yourselves are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge and being able also to admonish one another.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:15 - But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me [fn]by God
Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:30 -

Now I urge you, brothers G80, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:14 -

Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the brothers G80 with them.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:17 -

Now I urge you, brothers G80, to keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and stumblings contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:23 -

Gaius, host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer greets you, and Quartus, the brother G80.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:1 -

Paul, called as an apostle of Jesus Christ [fn]by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother G80,

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:10 -

Now I exhort you, brothers G80, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all [fn]agree and that there be no [fn]divisions among you, but that you be [fn]made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:11 - For I have been informed concerning you, my brothers G80, by Chloe’s people, that there are quarrels among you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:26 -

For [fn]consider your calling, brothers G80, that there were not many wise according to [fn]the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:1 -

And when I came to you, brothers G80, I did not come with superiority of word or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the [fn]witness of God.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:1 -

And I, brothers G80, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to fleshly men, as to infants in Christ.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:6 -

Now these things, brothers G80, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to go beyond what is written, so that no one of you will become puffed up on behalf of one against the other.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:11 - But now I am writing to you not to associate [fn]with any so-called brother G80 if he is a sexually immoral person, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:5 - I say this to your shame. Is it really this way: there is not one wise man among you who will be able to pass judgment between his brothers G80?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:6 - On the contrary, brother G80 is tried with brother G80, and that before unbelievers!
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 6:8 - On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brothers G80.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:12 -

But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother G80 has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not [fn]divorce her.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:15 - Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave. The brother G80 or the sister is not enslaved in such cases, but God has called [fn]us [fn]to peace.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:24 - Brothers G80, each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:29 - But this I say, brothers G80, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:11 - For through your knowledge he who is weak is ruined, the brother G80 for whose sake Christ died.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:12 - And in that way, by sinning against the brothers G80 and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:13 - Therefore, if food causes my brother G80 to stumble, I will never eat meat again—ever, so that I will not cause my brother G80 to stumble.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:5 - Do we not have authority to take along a [fn]believing wife, even as the rest of the apostles and the brothers G80 of the Lord and Cephas?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:1 -

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers G80, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea;

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:2 -

Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:33 -

So then, my brothers G80, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:1 -

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers G80, I do not want you to be ignorant.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:6 -

But now, brothers G80, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:20 -

Brothers G80, do not be children in your thinking; rather in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:26 -

What is the outcome then, brothers G80? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has a [fn]translation. Let all things be done for edification.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:39 -

Therefore, my brothers G80, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:1 -

Now I make known to you, brothers G80, the gospel which I proclaimed as good news to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:6 - After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers G80 at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:50 -

Now I say this, brothers G80, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the corruptible inherit the incorruptible.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:58 -

Therefore, my beloved brothers G80, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:11 - So let no one despise him. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me, for I expect him with the brothers G80.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:12 -

Now concerning Apollos our brother G80, I encouraged him greatly to come to you with the brothers G80, and it was not at all his desire to come now, but he will come when he has opportunity.

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:15 -

Now I exhort you, brothers G80 (you know the household of Stephanas, that [fn]they were the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves for service to the saints),

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:20 - All the brothers G80 greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:1 -

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother G80,

To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the [fn]saints who are throughout Achaia:

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:8 -

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers G80, of our affliction which came to us in [fn]Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even to live.

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:13 - I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother G80. But saying farewell to them, I went on to Macedonia.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:1 -

Now brothers G80, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:18 - And we have sent along with him the brother G80 whose praise in the things of the gospel is throughout all the churches.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:22 - And we have sent with them our brother G80, whom we have often tested and found earnest in many things, but now even more earnest because of his great confidence in you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 8:23 - As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker [fn]among you; as for our brothers G80, they are [fn]messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:3 - But I have sent the brothers G80, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
LSB
 [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
LSB

Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan