ἀδελφός
adelphos
ἀδελφός, -οῦ, ὁ
(ἀ- copul., δελφύς, womb),
in cl., a brother, born of the same parent or parents. [In LXX (Hort, Ja., 102f.), for אָח ;]
1. lit. of a brother (Gen.4:2, al.).
2. Of a neighbour (Lev.19:17).
3. Of a member of the same nation (Exo.2:14, Deu.15:3). In NT in each of these senses (1. Mat.1:2, al.; 2. Mat.7:3; 3. Rom.9:3) and also,
4. of a fellow-Christian: 1Co.1:1, Act.9:30. This usage finds illustration in π., where ἀ. is used of members of a pagan religious community (M, Th., I, 1:4; MM, VGT, see word). The ἀδελφοὶ τ. Κυρίου (Mat.12:46-49 13:55 28:10, Mrk.3:31-34, Luk.8:19-21, Jhn.2:12 7:3, 5 10 20:17, Act.1:14, 1Co.9:5) may have been sons of Joseph and Mary (Mayor, Ja., Intr. viff.; DB, i, 320ff.) or of Joseph by a former marriage (Lft., Gal., 252ff.; DCG, i, 232ff.), but the view of Jerome, which makes ἀ. equivalent to ἀνεψιός, is inconsistent with Greek usage. (Cremer, 66.)
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Concordance 317 verses
- Luke 6:14 ἀδελφὸν
Simon, whom He named Peter, and his brother Andrew; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew;
- Luke 6:41 ἀδελφοῦ
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
- Luke 6:42 ἀδελφῷἈδελφέἀδελφοῦ
How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
- Luke 8:19 ἀδελφοὶ
Then Jesus’ mother and brothers came to see Him, but they were unable to reach Him because of the crowd.
- Luke 8:20 ἀδελφοί
He was told, “Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see You.”
- Luke 8:21 ἀδελφοί
But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
- Luke 12:13 ἀδελφῷ
Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
- Luke 14:12 ἀδελφούς
Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid.
- Luke 14:26 ἀδελφοὺς
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
- Luke 15:27 ἀδελφός
‘Your brother has returned,’ he said, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.’
- Luke 15:32 ἀδελφός
But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
- Luke 16:28 ἀδελφούς
for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’
- Luke 17:3 ἀδελφός
Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.
- Luke 18:29 ἀδελφοὺς
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
- Luke 20:28 ἀδελφὸςἀδελφὸςἀδελφῷ
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
- Luke 20:29 ἀδελφοὶ
Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a wife, but died childless.
- Luke 21:16 ἀδελφῶν
You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
- Luke 22:32 ἀδελφούς
But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
- John 1:40 ἀδελφὸς
Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John’s testimony and followed Jesus.
- John 1:41 ἀδελφὸν
He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).
- John 2:12 ἀδελφοὶ
After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
- John 6:8 ἀδελφὸς
One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,
- John 7:3 ἀδελφοὶ
So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.
- John 7:5 ἀδελφοὶ
For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.
- John 7:10 ἀδελφοὶ
But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went—not publicly, but in secret.
- John 11:2 ἀδελφὸς
(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)
- John 11:19 ἀδελφοῦ
and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
- John 11:21 ἀδελφός
Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
- John 11:23 ἀδελφός
“Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.
- John 11:32 ἀδελφός
When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
- John 20:17 ἀδελφούς
“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
- John 21:23 ἀδελφοὺς
Because of this, the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple would not die. However, Jesus did not say that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I return, what is that to you?”
- Acts 1:14 ἀδελφοῖς
With one accord they all continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
- Acts 1:15 ἀδελφῶν
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty) and said,
- Acts 1:16 ἀδελφοί
“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
- Acts 2:29 ἀδελφοί
Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
- Acts 2:37 ἀδελφοί
When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
- Acts 3:17 ἀδελφοί
And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.
- Acts 3:22 ἀδελφῶν
For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
- Acts 6:3 ἀδελφοί
Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men confirmed to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will appoint this responsibility to them
- Acts 7:2 ἀδελφοὶ
And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
- Acts 7:13 ἀδελφοῖς
On their second visit, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.
- Acts 7:23 ἀδελφοὺς
When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
- Acts 7:25 ἀδελφοὺς
He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.
- Acts 7:26 ἀδελφοί
The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’
- Acts 7:37 ἀδελφῶν
This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
- Acts 9:17 ἀδελφέ
So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
- Acts 9:30 ἀδελφοὶ
When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
- Acts 10:23 ἀδελφῶν
So Peter invited them in as his guests. And the next day he got ready and went with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa.
- Acts 11:1 ἀδελφοὶ
The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.