Greek noun (feminine) · G79
ἀδελφή
adelphead-el-fay'
sister
26 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: adelphḗ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G79is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 27New Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G79
a sister (naturally or ecclesiastically)
The King James renders it: sister.
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
adelphe is rendered "sister". It stands 26 times in the Greek text, across eleven books.
- Six of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 12:50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 12:50ἀδελφὴ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sister13
- sisters9
- a sister3
- our sister1
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.
All 26, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- ἀδελφὴ7
- ἀδελφὴν5
- ἀδελφὰς4
- ἀδελφαὶ3
- ἀδελφῆς3
- ἀδελφαί1
- ἀδελφάς1
- ἀδελφή1
- ἀδελφῇ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular8N-NSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural5N-APF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular5N-ASF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural4N-NPF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3N-GSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
Matthew
three uses
For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
- ἀδελφὴadelphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: sister
Aren’t all His sisters with us as well? Where then did this man get all these things?”
- ἀδελφαὶadelphainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: sisters
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
- ἀδελφὰςadelphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: sisters
Mark
five uses
and a crowd was sitting around Him. “Look,” He was told, “Your mother and brothers are outside, asking for You.”
- ἀδελφαίadelphainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: sisters
For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”
- ἀδελφὴadelphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: sister
Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren’t His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him.
- ἀδελφαὶadelphainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: sisters
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel
- ἀδελφὰςadelphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: sisters
will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.
- ἀδελφὰςadelphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: sisters
Luke
three uses
She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to His message.
- ἀδελφὴadelphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a sister
But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!”
- ἀδελφήadelphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: sister
“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.
- ἀδελφάςadelphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: sisters
John
six uses
At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
- ἀδελφῆςadelphesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sister
So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
- ἀδελφαὶadelphainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: sisters
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
- ἀδελφὴνadelphennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: sister
After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”
- ἀδελφὴνadelphennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: sister
“Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”
- ἀδελφὴadelphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: sister
Near the cross of Jesus stood His mother and her sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene.
- ἀδελφὴadelphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: sister
Acts
one use
But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.
- ἀδελφῆςadelphesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sister
Romans
two uses
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea.
- ἀδελφὴνadelphennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: sister
Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the saints with them.
- ἀδελφὴνadelphennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: sister
1 Corinthians
two uses
But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.
- ἀδελφὴadelphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: sister
Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
- ἀδελφὴνadelphennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a sister
1 Timothy
one use
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
- ἀδελφὰςadelphasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: sisters
Philemon
one use
to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets at your house:
- ἀδελφῇadelpheanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: our sister
James
one use
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
- ἀδελφὴadelphenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a sister
2 John
one use
The children of your elect sister send you greetings.
- ἀδελφῆςadelphesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: sister
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.