ἀδελφός adelphós

Meaning

a brother (literally or figuratively) near or remote (much like G1 (Α))

In the King James Version: brother

Derivation: from G1 (Α) (as a connective particle) and (the womb);

Where it is used

• Luke 15:32 But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
• Luke 16:28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’
• Luke 17:3 Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.
• Luke 18:29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
• Luke 20:28 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
• Luke 20:29 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a wife but died childless.
• Luke 21:16 You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
• Luke 22:32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
• John 1:40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John’s testimony and followed Jesus.
• John 1:41 He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).
• John 2:12 After this, He went down to Capernaum with His mother and brothers and His disciples, and they stayed there a few days.
• John 6:8 One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,
• John 7:3 So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.
• John 7:5 For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.
• John 7:10 But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went—not publicly, but in secret.
• John 11:2 (Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)
• John 11:19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
• John 11:21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
• John 11:23 “Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.
• John 11:32 When Mary came to Jesus and saw Him, she fell at His feet and said, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”
• John 20:17 “Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
• John 21:23 Because of this, the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple would not die. However, Jesus did not say that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I return, what is that to you?”
• Acts 1:14 With one accord they all continued in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
• Acts 1:15 In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty) and said,
• Acts 1:16 “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
• Acts 2:29 Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
• Acts 2:37 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
• Acts 3:17 And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.
• Acts 3:22 For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
• Acts 6:3 Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men confirmed to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will assign this responsibility to them
• Acts 7:2 And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
• Acts 7:13 On their second visit, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.
• Acts 7:23 When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
• Acts 7:25 He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.
• Acts 7:26 The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’
• Acts 7:37 This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
• Acts 9:17 So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
• Acts 9:30 When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
• Acts 10:23 So Peter invited them in as his guests. And the next day he got ready and went with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa.
• Acts 11:1 The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
• Acts 11:12 The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s home.
• Acts 11:29 So the disciples, each according to his ability, decided to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.
• Acts 12:2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.
• Acts 12:17 Peter motioned with his hand for silence, and he described how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. “Send word to James and to the brothers,” he said, and he left for another place.
• Acts 13:15 After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent word to them: “Brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, please speak.”
• Acts 13:26 Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.
• Acts 13:38 Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.
• Acts 14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
• Acts 15:1 Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
• Acts 15:3 Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.
• Acts 15:7 After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
• Acts 15:13 When they had finished speaking, James declared, “Brothers, listen to me!
• Acts 15:22 Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to select men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, two leaders among the brothers,
• Acts 15:23 and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.
• Acts 15:32 Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the brothers.
• Acts 15:33 After spending some time there, they were sent off by the brothers in peace to return to those who had sent them.
• Acts 15:36 Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
• Acts 15:40 but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.
• Acts 16:2 The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.
• Acts 16:40 After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia’s house to see the brothers and encourage them. Then they left the city.