Strong's Greek · G79

ἀδελφή

adelphḗ

sister

Definition

a sister (naturally or ecclesiastically)

Derivation

feminine of G80 (ἀδελφός);

Appears 25 times in Scripture

John 11:3

So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

Mark 10:29

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel

Mark 10:30

will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

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 hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 13:56

Aren’t all His sisters with us as well? Where then did this man get all these things?”

John 11:5

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Luke 10:40

But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!”

Mark 3:35

For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

John 11:1

At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Mark 6:3

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren’t His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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