adjective
filadelfos
Strong’sG5361
loving the brethren
stem filadelf-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.
* φιλ-άδελφος, -ον
[in LXX: II Mac 15:14, IV Mac 13:21 15:10 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5361 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
loving one's brother or sister, brotherly, sisterly, φ. δάκρυα Refs 5th c.BC+; of persons, Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative, Refs; frequently as a title of kings, as of Ptolemy Il and Arsinoe, Refs; of Ptolemy XIII, Refs 2nd c.BC+, etc.; τῆς Φ. Κύπριδος, of Arsinoe, Refs 3rd c.BC+; of Antoninus and Verus, Refs 1st c.BC+ adverb -φως Scholia S. [prev. cited]
2 in NT, loving the brethren, NT
II φιλάδελφον, τό, mock orange, Philadelphus coronarius, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III φιλάδελφοι, οἱ, name of fabulous stones, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | filadelfos | filadelfas | filadelfem | filadelfois1×φιλάδελφοι | filadelfais | filadelfeim |
| object accusative | filadelfon | filadelfan | filadelfoin | filadelfain | ||
| direct address vocative | filadelfor | filadelfar | filadelfoir | filadelfair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | filadelfou | filadelfau | filadelfeu | filadelfoiu | filadelfaiu | filadelfeiu |
| to, for dative | filadelfo | filadelfa | filadelfe | filadelfoi | filadelfai | filadelfei |
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
filadelf 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
filadelfois“love as brothers”subjectnominative plural1×
1 Peter 3:8Tem de telem pantoir homofrōnois, sumpathois, filadelfois, eusplanchnois, tapeinofrōnois,… of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.