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ἀδελφότης

adelphótēs · G81 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. brotherhood, fellow believers

    An association of persons having a strong sense of unity

    Examples

    1 Peter 2:17 Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Brotherhood, fellow believers11.22
This noun denotes the community of fellow believers, as in 1 Peter 2:17's instruction, "Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king."
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀδελφός adelphós · G80 · brother, fellow believer, (Christian) brother · 343×ἀδελφή adelphḗ · G79 · sister, fellow believer, sister in Christ · 26×ἀδελφότηςadelphótēs · G81
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ητος, ἡ, brotherhood; the abstract for the concrete, a band of brothers, i. e. of…
(ητος, ἡ, brotherhood; the abstract for the concrete, a band of brothers, i. e. of Christians, Christian brethren: 1 Pet 2:17; 1 Pet 5:9. (1 Macc. 12:10, 17, the connection of allied nations; 4 Macc. 9:23; 10:3, the connection of brothers; Dio Chrysostom 2:137 (edited by Reiske); often in ecclesiastical writings.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Socio-Religious2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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