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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀδελφός ἀδελφώ ἀδελφοί
Genitive ἀδελφοῦ ἀδελφοῖν ἀδελφῶν
Dative ἀδελφῷ ἀδελφοῖν ἀδελφοῖς
Accusative ἀδελφόν ἀδελφώ ἀδελφούς
Vocative ἀδελφέ ἀδελφώ ἀδελφοί

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 ὄνομα τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ Ἰουβάλ. οὗτοσ ἦν ὁ καταδείξασ ψαλτήριον καὶ κιθάραν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 4:21)
  • Καὶ τῷ Σὴμ ἐγεννήθη καὶ αὐτῷ, πατρὶ πάντων τῶν υἱῶν Ἕβερ, ἀδελφῷ Ἰάφεθ τοῦ μείζονοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 10:21)
  • καὶ τῷ Ἕβερ ἐγεννήθησαν δύο υἱοί. ὄνομα τῷ ἑνὶ Φαλέγ, ὅτι ἐν ταῖσ ἡμέραισ αὐτοῦ διεμερίσθη ἡ γῆ, καὶ ὄνομα τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ Ἰεκτάν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 10:25)
  • τῇ δὲ Σάρρᾳ εἶπεν. ἰδοὺ δέδωκα χίλια δίδραχμα τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου. ταῦτα ἔσται σοι εἰσ τὴν τιμὴ τοῦ προσώπου σου καὶ πάσαισ ταῖσ μετὰ σοῦ. καὶ πάντα ἀλήθευσον. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 20:16)
  • Ἐγένετο δὲ μετὰ τὰ ρήματα ταῦτα καὶ ἀνηγγέλη τῷ Ἁβραὰμ λέγοντεσ. ἰδοὺ τέτοκε Μελχὰ καὶ αὐτὴ υἱοὺσ τῷ Ναχὼρ τῷ ἀδελφῷ σου, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 22:20)

Synonyms

  1. brother

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