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Strong's #79: adelphe (pronounced ad-el-fay')

fem of 80; a sister (naturally or ecclesiastically):--sister.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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adelphē

1) a full, own sister

2) one connected by the tie of the Christian religion

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G80

Citing in TDNT: 1:144, 22




Usage:

This word is used 24 times:

Matthew 12:50: "my brother, and sister, and mother."
Matthew 13:56: "And his sisters, are they not all with us?"
Matthew 19:29: "or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother,"
Mark 3:35: "my brother, and my sister, and mother."
Mark 6:3: "are not his sisters here with us? And"
Mark 10:29: "or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother,"
Mark 10:30: "houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and"
Luke 10:39: "And she had a sister called Mary, which also"
Luke 10:40: "dost thou not care that my sister hath left me"
Luke 14:26: "and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life"
John 11:1: "of Mary and her sister Martha."
John 11:3: "Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold,"
John 11:5: "Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus."
John 11:28: "called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master"
John 11:39: "stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord,"
John 19:25: "and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and"
Acts 23:16: "And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and"
Romans 16:1: "unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church"
Romans 16:15: "Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all"
1 Corinthians 7:15: "let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such"
1 Corinthians 9:5: "we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other"
1 Timothy 5:2: "mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity."
James 2:15: "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute"
2 John 1:13: "children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen."









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