Greek noun (feminine) · G81
ἀδελφότης
adelphotesad-el-fot'-ace
abstract; Concrete
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: adelphótēs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G81is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G81
brotherhood (properly, the feeling of brotherliness), i.e. the (Christian) fraternity
The King James renders it: brethren, brotherhood.
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
adelphotes is rendered "abstract; Concrete". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Peter, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "abstract".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Peter 2:17Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
1 Peter 2:17ἀδελφότητα
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 1 Peter.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: abstract, and Concrete.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| abstractbrotherhood, brotherly affection (LXX). | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where1 Peter 2:17Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king. |
| Concretethe brotherhood, the Christian community | Tagged as
| Where1 Peter 2:17Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king. |
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 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
- ἀδελφότητα1
- ἀδελφότητι1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
1 Peter
two uses
Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
- ἀδελφότηταadelphotetanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: brotherhood
Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.
- ἀδελφότητιadelphotetinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: brotherhood
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.