STRONGS NUMBER G81


Word Summary
adelphotēs: brotherhood
Original Word: ἀδελφότης
Transliteration: adelphotēs
Phonetic Spelling: (ad-el-fot'-ace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: brotherhood
Meaning: brotherhood
Strong's Concordance
brethren, brotherhood.

From adephos; brotherhood (properly, the feeling of brotherliness), i.e. The (Christian) fraternity -- brethren, brotherhood.

see GREEK adephos

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 81: ἀδελφότης

ἀδελφότης, (ητος, , brotherhood; the abstract for the concrete, a band of brothers, i. e. of Christians, Christian brethren: 1 Peter 2:17; 1 Peter 5:9. (1 Macc. 12:10, 17, the connection of allied nations; 4 Macc. 9:23; 10:3, the connection of brothers; Dio Chrysostom 2:137 (edited by Reiske); often in ecclesiastical writings.)