noun · feminine
filadelfias
Strong’sG5360
brotherly love
stem filadelfi-6 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
φιλαδελφία, -ας, ἡ
(< φιλάδελφος), [in LXX: IV Mac 13:23, 26 14:1 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5360 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfil-ad-el-fee'-ah
fraternal affection
Fromfrom G5361;
King Jamesbrotherly love (kindness), love of the brethren.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
brotherly love, Refs 1st c.AD+; in NT, love of the brethren, NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | filadelfias1×φιλαδελφία | filadelfiais |
| object accusative | filadelfian2×φιλαδελφίαν | filadelfiain |
| direct address vocative | filadelfiar | filadelfiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | filadelfiau1×φιλαδελφίας | filadelfiaiu |
| to, for dative | filadelfia2×φιλαδελφίᾳ | filadelfiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
filadelfia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
filadelfias“brotherly love”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 13:1Tas filadelfias menatōr.Continue in brotherly love.
filadelfian“brotherly love”objectaccusative singular2×
1 Peter 1:22“brotherly love”… en ta hupakoa tau alētheiau eis filadelfian anupokritan ek kardiau allēloin agapavar ektenōs,… your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
2 Peter 1:7en de ta eusebeia tan filadelfian, en de ta filadelfia tan agapan;and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
filadelfiau“brotherly love”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Thessalonians 4:9Peri de tau filadelfiau ouk chreian echavō grafarō vi, autois …Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to …
filadelfia“brotherly love”to, fordative singular2×
Romans 12:10ta filadelfia eis allēloin filostorgois, ta tima allēloin …Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
2 Peter 1:7… eusebeia tan filadelfian, en de ta filadelfia tan agapan;… to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.