What does φιλάδελφος (philádelphos) mean in the Bible?
φιλάδελφος (philádelphos): Christian virtue of familial affection within the faith community, not merely natural brotherhood
Greek · G5361
φιλάδελφος
Loving the brothers
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φιλάδελφοςG5361
Pronunciationphiládelphos
What does φιλάδελφος (philádelphos) mean in the Bible?
φιλάδελφος (philádelphos): Christian virtue of familial affection within the faith community, not merely natural brotherhood
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How does the BSB render G5361?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include love as brothers (1).
Where does φιλάδελφος (philádelphos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 1 Peter 3:8. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Peter (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itlove as brothers1×1 Peter 3:8
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First aligned row1 Peter 3:8
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
1 Peter1
Source forms
φιλάδελφοι1xphiladelphoi1 Peter 3:8
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural1x1 Peter 3:8
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Christian virtue of familial affection within the faith community, not merely natural brotherhood
Strong'sG5361
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
loving the brothers
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Christian virtue of familial affection within the faith community, not merely natural brotherhood
loving one's brother, loving like a brother (Soph., Xen., al.): of Christians' love for one another (EV, loving as brethren), 1Pe.3:8.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
1 Peter 3:8Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
φιλάδελφοι,filadelfoi
loving the brethren
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternNominative (1)Number patternPlural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Masculine1 Pet 3:81×
Word Origins
φιλάδελφος is built from these roots: