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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)
  • οὐκ αὐτόσ μοι εἶπεν, ἀδελφή μου ἐστί̣ καὶ αὕτη μοι εἶπεν, ἀδελφόσ μου ἐστίν̣ ἐν καθαρᾷ καρδίᾳ καὶ ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ χειρῶν ἐποίησα τοῦτο. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 20:5)
  • ἐγένετο δέ, ἡνίκα ἐξήγαγέ με ὁ Θεὸσ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρόσ μου, καὶ εἶπα αὐτῇ. ταύτην τὴν δικαιοσύνην ποιήσεισ εἰσ ἐμέ, εἰσ πάντα τόπον οὗ ἐὰν εἰσέλθωμεν ἐκεῖ, εἰπὸν ἐμέ, ὅτι ἀδελφόσ μου ἐστίν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 20:13)
  • τῇ δὲ Ρεβέκκᾳ ἀδελφὸσ ἦν ᾧ ὄνομα Λάβαν. καὶ ἔδραμε Λάβαν πρὸσ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἔξω ἐπὶ τὴν πηγήν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 24:29)
  • καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἐξῆλθεν ὁ ἀδελφὸσ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ ἐπειλημμένη τῆσ πτέρνησ Ἡσαῦ. καὶ ἐκάλεσε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰακώβ. Ἰσαὰκ δὲ ἦν ἐτῶν ἑξήκοντα, ὅτε ἔτεκεν αὐτοὺσ Ρεβέκκα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 25:26)

Synonyms

  1. brother

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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