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Koine Greek wordlink #13349

SR GNT Mat 19:29 ἀδελφάς (adelfas) ‘or brothers or sisters or father or’ Strongs=790 Lemma=adelfē
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=33 AD

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Other uses (4) of identical word form ἀδελφάς (N-AFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀδελφάς’ (N-AFP) is always and only glossed as ‘sisters’.

Mark 10:29 ‘or brothers or sisters or mother or’ SR GNT Mark 10:29 word 21

OET-LV: 29 The Yaʸsous was _saying: Truly, I _am _saying to _you _all, there _is no _one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or farms, on _account of _me and of _the good _message, (MRK_10:29)

OET-RV: 29 He answered, “Yes I can assure you all that anyone who left their home or farm, and left their siblings or parents or children because of me and my teaching, (MRK 10:29)

Mark 10:30 ‘and brothers and sisters and mothers and’ SR GNT Mark 10:30 word 21

OET-LV: 30 if may_ not _receive hundred _fold now in the this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and farms, with persecutions, and in the age which coming, eternal life. (MRK_10:30)

OET-RV: 30 they’ll be rewarded one hundred times over with homes and farms and siblings and parents and children along with persecution, but gaining eternal life in the next era. (MRK 10:30)

Luke 14:26 ‘brothers and the sisters still and also’ SR GNT Luke 14:26 word 29

OET-LV: 26 If anyone is _coming to me, and is_ not _hating the father of _himself, and the mother, and the wife, and the children, and the brothers, and the sisters, and still also the life of _himself, is_ not _able to _be an_apprentice/follower of _me. (LUK_14:26)

OET-RV: 26 “If anyone comes to me but doesn’t love me more than they love their parents and their siblings, and their spouse and children, and even their own life, then that person is unable to become my apprentice. (LUK 14:26)

1 Tim 5:2 ‘mothers younger as sisters in all purity’ SR GNT 1 Tim 5:2 word 6

OET-LV: 2 eldresses as mothers, younger as sisters, in all purity. (TI1_5:2)

OET-RV: 2 female elders as mothers and younger ones as sisters in all purity. (TI1 5:2)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘adelfē’ have 4 different glosses: ‘a sister’, ‘the sister’, ‘sister’, ‘sisters’.

Greek words (3) other than ἀδελφάς (N-AFP) with a gloss related to ‘sisters’

YHN 11:3 ἀδελφαί (adelfai) N-NFP ‘sent_out therefore the sisters to him saying’ SR GNT Yhn 11:3 word 7

OET-LV: 3 Therefore the sisters sent _out to him saying: master, see, he _whom you _are _loving is _ailing. (JHN_11:3)

OET-RV: 3 and so the two sisters sent a message to Yeshua saying, “Master, this man that you love is seriously ill.” (JHN 11:3)

MARK 6:3 ἀδελφαί (adelfai) N-NFP ‘not are the sisters of him here with’ SR GNT Mark 6:3 word 30

OET-LV: 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of_ the _Maria/(Miryām), and brother of_Yakōbos/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ), and Yōsaʸs/(Yōşēf? ), and Youdas/(Yəhūdāh), and Simōn? And are not the sisters of _him here with us? And they _were _being _offended at him. (MRK_6:3)

OET-RV: 3 Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Maria, and the brother of Yacob and Yosef and Yudas and Simon? Don’t his sisters live around here?” And they were offended by his teaching. (MRK 6:3)

MAT 13:56 ἀδελφαί (adelfai) N-NFP ‘and the sisters of him not all’ SR GNT Mat 13:56 word 3

OET-LV: 56 And are not the sisters of _him all with us? Therefore from _where to _this man these things all received? (MAT_13:56)

OET-RV: 56 Aren’t his sisters still here in town? So where did he get all these abilities?” (MAT 13:56)

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural NFP=nominative,feminine,plural