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ἀδελφός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδελφός ἀδελφοῦ

Structure: ἀδελφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. brother

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ εἶπε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ πρὸσ Κάϊν. ποῦ ἔστιν Ἄβελ ὁ ἀδελφόσ σου̣ καὶ εἶπεν. οὐ γινώσκω. μὴ φύλαξ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ μου εἰμὶ ἐγώ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 4:9)
  • καί εἶπε Κύριοσ. τί πεποίηκασ̣ φωνὴ αἵματοσ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου βοᾷ πρόσ με ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 4:10)
  • καὶ νῦν ἐπικατάρατοσ σὺ ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ, ἣ ἔχανε τὸ στόμα αὐτῆσ δέξασθαι τὸ αἷμα τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου ἐκ τῆσ χειρόσ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 4:11)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὸ ὑμέτερον αἷμα τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν ἐκ χειρὸσ πάντων τῶν θηρίων ἐκζητήσω αὐτὸ καὶ ἐκ χειρὸσ ἀνθρώπου ἀδελφοῦ ἐκζητήσω τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 9:5)
  • καὶ ἔλαβεν Ἅβραμ Σάραν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν Λὼτ υἱὸν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτῶν, ὅσα ἐκτήσαντο, καὶ πᾶσαν ψυχήν, ἣν ἐκτήσαντο ἐκ Χαρράν, καὶ ἐξήλθοσαν πορευθῆναι εἰσ γῆν Χαναάν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 12:5)

Synonyms

  1. brother

Similar forms

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