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ἀδελφός

adelphos

ad-el-fos'

Strong's 1890 spelling: adelphós

a brother (literally or figuratively) near or remote (much like )

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a brother (literally or figuratively) near or remote (much like )

Rendered in the KJV as

brother.

  • 343
    occurrencesin the New Testament
  • 25 of 27
    New Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 40
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 343 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 40

  • ἀδελφοί,68
  • ἀδελφὸν32
  • ἀδελφοί30
  • ἀδελφοὶ30
  • ἀδελφὸς30
  • ἀδελφοὺς26
  • ἀδελφοῦ15
  • ἀδελφῶν15
  • ἀδελφοῖς12
  • ἀδελφῷ12
  • ἀδελφός11
  • Ἀδελφοί,6

and 28 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 27

  • brothers114
  • brother101
  • brothers,68
  • brothers.12
  • Brothers,6
  • brothers;6
  • brother,5
  • a brother4
  • brother.3
  • Brother,2
  • brother;2
  • Brothers2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 10

  • noun · vocative (address) · masculine plural106
  • noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular43
  • noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular41
  • noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural39
  • noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural39
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural21
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural17
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular17
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular14
  • noun · vocative (address) · masculine singular6
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • N-VPM · 106
  • N-NSM · 43
  • N-ASM · 41
  • N-APM · 39
  • N-NPM · 39
  • N-GPM · 21
  • N-DPM · 17
  • N-GSM · 17
  • N-DSM · 14
  • N-VSM · 6

All 343, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Acts carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Matthew39 occurrences
Mark20 occurrences
Luke24 occurrences
John14 occurrences
Acts57 occurrences
Romans19 occurrences
1 Corinthians39 occurrences
2 Corinthians12 occurrences
Galatians11 occurrences
Ephesians2 occurrences
Philippians9 occurrences
Colossians5 occurrences
1 Thessalonians19 occurrences
2 Thessalonians9 occurrences
1 Timothy3 occurrences
2 Timothy1 occurrence
Philemon4 occurrences
Hebrews10 occurrences
James19 occurrences
1 Peter1 occurrence
2 Peter2 occurrences
1 John15 occurrences
3 John3 occurrences
Jude1 occurrence
Revelation5 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).