Word Summary
adelphotēs: brotherhood
Original Word: ἀδελφότηςTransliteration: 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: ἀδελφότηςἀδελφότης,
(ητος,
ἡ,
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.)