1. brother, fellow believer — A male sibling by blood or, far more frequently in the NT, a fellow member of the believing community addressed in familial terms; the dominant NT relational term covering both literal kinship (e.g., Andrew and Peter, James and John) and the spiritual brotherhood of Christians (Paul's habitual address ἀδελφοί 'brothers'). Spanish hermano/hermanos, Arabic الإخْوَة/أَخيهِ (al-ikhwah/akhihi), Korean 형제 (hyeongje), Hindi भाई/भाइयो (bhai/bhaiyo), Swahili ndugu. The two clusters (S61289 with 337 occurrences across all cases and numbers, S61294 with 6 singular forms) show no semantic distinction — both are used interchangeably for biological brothers and spiritual brothers depending on context, and the translations are identical. 343×
AR["-","إِخوَةٌ","إِخوَةٍ","إِخوَتي","إِخوَتُكَ","إِخوَتُهُ","إِخوَتِي","إِخْوَةً","إِخْوَتي","إِخْوَتَهُ","إِخْوَتُكَ","إِخْوَتُهُ","إِخْوَتِكُمْ","إِخْوَتِي"]·ben["ভাই","ভাইকে,","ভাইদের","ভাইয়েরা"]·DE["Bruder","Brueder"]·EN["brothers"]·FR["frère"]·heb["אֶחָיו","אַחִים","אַחֵיכֶם","אַחֶיךָ","אַחַי","וְ-"]·HI["और","बाहर","भएए","भाइयों","भाइयों-को","भाई","भैयोन","भैयोन-को"]·ID["saudara","saudara,","saudara-saudara","saudara-saudaranya"]·IT["fratello"]·jav["sadherek","sadhèrèk","sadhèrèk,","sadhèrèk-jaler","sadhèrèk-lanang","sadhèrèk-sadhèrèk","sadhèrèkipun"]·KO["형제","형제-를","형제들","형제들-에게","형제들-을","형제들-의","형제들은","형제들이","형제들이다","형제들이치"]·PT["irmãos","irmãos,","irmãos.","irmãos;"]·RU["братьев","братьев,","братьев;","братья","братьям","братьях."]·ES["hermanos"]·SW["-","au","na","ndugu"]·TR["erkek-kardeşler","erkek-kardeşleri","kardeş","kardeşin","kardeşler","kardeşleri","kardeşlerim","kardeşlerime","kardeşlerimin","kardeşlerin","kardeşlerinin","kardeşlerinizi"]·urd["بھائی","بھائیوں","بھائیوں-کو"]
Matt 1:2, Matt 1:11, Matt 4:18, Matt 4:21, Matt 5:47, Matt 12:46, Matt 12:47, Matt 12:48, Matt 12:49, Matt 13:55, Matt 19:29, Matt 20:24 (+38 more)
Senses
Related Senses
H0376 1. man, person, human male (2130×)H0001 1. father, immediate male parent (1031×)H0251 1. brother (blood sibling) (573×)H0120 1. man, human being (individual/generic) (527×)H0802 1. woman, female person (519×)G0444 1. human being, person (469×)G3962 1. father or divine Father (413×)H0802 2. wife, spouse (255×)H0517 1. mother, female parent (217×)G0435 1. man, male person (202×)G1135 1. woman, adult female (190×)H2233 1. offspring, descendants (172×)H0001 2. ancestor, forefather (146×)H5288 1. Youth, young man (122×)H0269 1. sister (female sibling) (113×)H1755 1. generation, contemporaries (96×)G5043 1. child, offspring (89×)G0444 2. people, humankind (86×)H3206 1. child, boy, youth (86×)H2145 1. male (human being) (79×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἀδελφός [ᾰ], (ἀ- copulative, δελφύς, Refs 4th c.BC+; compare ἀγάστωρ) properly, son of the same mother: __I as substantive, ἀδελφός, ὁ, vocative ἄδελφ; Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, and Lyric poetry ἀδελφεός (genitive -ειοῦ in Refs 8th c.BC+:—brother, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀδελφοί brother and sister, Refs 5th c.BC+; so of the Ptolemies, θεοὶ ἀδελφοίRefs 3rd c.BC+; ἀπ᾽ ἀμφοτέρων ἀδελφεόςLXX+5th c.BC+…