Strong's #80: adephos (pronounced ad-el-fos')
from 1 (as a connective particle) and delphus (the womb); a brother (literally or figuratively) near or remote (much like 1):--brother.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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adelphos
1) a brother, whether born of the same two parents or only of the same father or mother
2) having the same national ancestor, belonging to the same people, or countryman
3) any fellow or man
4) a fellow believer, united to another by the bond of affection
5) an associate in employment or office
6) brethren in Christ
6a) his brothers by blood
6b) all men
6c) apostles
6d) Christians, as those who are exalted to the same heavenly place
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from G1 (as a connective particle) and delphus (the womb)
Citing in TDNT: 1:144, 22
Usage:
This word is used 348 times:
Acts 23:5: "Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for"
Acts 23:6: "the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son"
Acts 28:14: "Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven"
Acts 28:15: "And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to"
Acts 28:17: "called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men"
Acts 28:21: "neither any of the brethren that came showed or spake"
Romans 1:13: "I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed"
Romans 7:1: "Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that"
Romans 7:4: "Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law"
Romans 8:12: "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh,"
Romans 8:29: "the firstborn among many brethren."
Romans 9:3: "Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:"
Romans 10:1: " Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to"
Romans 11:25: "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,"
Romans 12:1: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,"
Romans 14:10: "dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou"
Romans 14:10: "why dost thou set at naught thy brother? for we shall all stand before"
Romans 14:13: "put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's"
Romans 14:15: "But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not"
Romans 14:21: "nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended,"
Romans 15:14: "of you, my brethren, that ye also are"
Romans 15:15: "Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as"
Romans 15:30: "Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake,"
Romans 16:14: "Hermes, and the brethren which are with them."
Romans 16:17: "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and"
Romans 16:23: "you, and Quartus a brother."
1 Corinthians 1:1: "of God, and Sosthenes our brother,"
1 Corinthians 1:10: "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our"
1 Corinthians 1:11: "of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that"
1 Corinthians 1:26: "ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men"
1 Corinthians 2:1: "And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with"
1 Corinthians 3:1: "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as"
1 Corinthians 4:6: "And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos"
1 Corinthians 5:11: "if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or"
1 Corinthians 6:5: "to judge between his brethren?"
1 Corinthians 6:6: "But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before"
1 Corinthians 6:6: "brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers."
1 Corinthians 6:8: "defraud, and that your brethren."
1 Corinthians 7:12: "the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and"
1 Corinthians 7:15: "unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage"
1 Corinthians 7:24: " Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide"
1 Corinthians 7:29: "But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth,"
1 Corinthians 8:11: "knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ"
1 Corinthians 8:12: "so against the brethren, and wound their weak"
1 Corinthians 8:13: "Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no"
1 Corinthians 8:13: "I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest"
1 Corinthians 9:5: "other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and"
1 Corinthians 10:1: "Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all"
1 Corinthians 11:2: "Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things,"
1 Corinthians 11:33: "Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another."
