Greek proper noun (a place) · G5359
Φιλαδέλφεια
Philadelpheiafil-ad-el'-fee-ah
Philadelphia
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Philadélpheia
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5359is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5359
Philadelphia, a place in Asia Minor
The King James renders it: Philadelphia.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Philadelpheia is rendered "Philadelphia". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Revelation 1:11saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
Revelation 1:11Φιλαδέλφειαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Philadelphia2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φιλαδελφία | philadelphia | brotherly love | Uses6 |
| φιλάργυρος | philargyros | money-loving | Uses2 |
| φιλανθρωπία | philanthropia | benevolence | Uses2 |
| φίλαυτος | philautos | selfish | Uses1 |
| φιλάγαθος | philagathos | lover of good | Uses1 |
| φίλανδρος | philandros | husband-loving | Uses1 |
| φιλάδελφος | philadelphos | loving the brothers | Uses1 |
| φιλαργυρία | philargyria | love of money | Uses1 |
| φιλανθρώπως | philanthropos | benevolently | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- Φιλαδελφείᾳ1
- Φιλαδέλφειαν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF-L
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF-L
Revelation
two uses
saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
- Φιλαδέλφειανphiladelpheiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: Philadelphia
To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
- Φιλαδελφείᾳphiladelpheianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: Philadelphia
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.