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ἀδελφή
ἀδελφή
See also: αδελφή
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- (4th AD Koine) IPA(key): /aðelɸí/
- (10th AD Byzantine) IPA(key): /aðelfí/
- (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aðelfí/
Noun
ἀδελφή • (adelphḗ) f (genitive ἀδελφῆς); first declension
- sister
- some other female relation, such as wife or cousin
Inflection
First declension of ἀδελφή, ἀδελφῆς
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἀδελφή | τὼ ἀδελφᾱ́ | αἱ ἀδελφαί |
| Genitive | τῆς ἀδελφῆς | τοῖν ἀδελφαῖν | τῶν ἀδελφῶν |
| Dative | τῇ ἀδελφῇ | τοῖν ἀδελφαῖν | ταῖς ἀδελφαῖς |
| Accusative | τὴν ἀδελφήν | τὼ ἀδελφᾱ́ | τὰς ἀδελφᾱ́ς |
| Vocative | ἀδελφή | ἀδελφᾱ́ | ἀδελφαί |
References
- ἀδελφή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀδελφή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «ἀδελφή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «ἀδελφή» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- “G79”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- sister idem, page 779.