adelphē · sister

What it means

adelphē (ἀδελφή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “sister”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A woman born of the same parents as another.
2. A woman believer, of the same family of God.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sister ×17
• sisters ×8

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×4
• Luke×3
• John×6
• Acts×1
• Romans×2
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 1 Timothy×1
• Philemon×1
• James×1
• 2 John×1

• Matthew 12:50

  For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

• Matthew 13:56

  And his sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man get all these things?”

• Matthew 19:29

  And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

• Mark 3:35

  For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

• Mark 6:3

  Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they stumbled over him.

• Mark 10:29

  Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for the sake of me and for the sake of the good news

• Mark 10:30

  who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

• Luke 10:39

  And she had a sister called Mary, who also, sitting at the feet of Jesus, was listening to his word.

• Luke 10:40

  But Martha was distracted with much serving; and coming up, she said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”

• Luke 14:26

  “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even his own life as well, he cannot be my disciple.

• John 11:1

  Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

• John 11:3

  So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, look, the one you hold dear is sick.”

• John 11:5

  Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

• John 11:28

  And having said this, she went away and called her sister Mary privately, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”

• John 11:39

  Jesus says, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, says to him, “Lord, by now he stinks, for it is the fourth day.”

• John 19:25

  Now standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

• Acts 23:16

  But the son of Paul’s sister, having heard of the ambush, came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

• Romans 16:1

  Now I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is also a servant of the assembly in Cenchreae,

• Romans 16:15

  Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them.

• 1 Corinthians 7:15

  But if the unbeliever separates, let him separate; the brother or the sister is not enslaved in such cases; but God has called us in peace.

• 1 Corinthians 9:5

  It is not that we do not have the right to take along a sister as a wife, as also the other apostles do, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas, is it?

• 1 Timothy 5:2

  older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

• Philemon 1:2

  and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

• James 2:15

  If a brother or a sister is naked and lacking daily food,

• 2 John 1:13

  The children of your chosen sister greet you.