ἀδελφός: Difference between revisions

|txtha=(οῦ, ὁ (from ἆ copulative and [[δελφύς]], from the [[same]] [[womb]]; cf. [[ἀγάστωρ]]) (from Homer down);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a [[brother]] ([[whether]] [[born]] of the [[same]] [[two]] parents, or [[only]] of the [[same]] [[father]] or the [[same]] [[mother]]): WH [[only]] in marginal [[reading]]); Jerome and Augustine (cf. Lightfoot's Commentary on Galatians, diss. ii.)), according to [[that]] [[use]] of [[language]] by [[which]] [[ἀδελφός]] [[like]] the [[Hebrew]] אָח denotes [[any]] [[blood-relation]] or [[kinsman]] (R G); [[υἱόν]] πρωτότοκον, the [[expression]] [[υἱόν]] μονογενῆ would [[have]] been used, as [[well]] as from [[Ἰάκωβος]], 3. (Cf. B. D. [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Brother; Andrews, Life of [[our]] Lord, pp. 104-116; Bib. Sacr. for 1864, pp. 855-869; for 1869, pp. 745-758; Laurent, N. T. Studien, pp. 153-193; McClellan, [[note]] on אָח ([[σπέρμα]] [[Ἀβραάμ]], υἱοί [[Ἰσραήλ]], cf. ὁ [[ἀλλότριος]], cf. [[Philo]] de septen. § 9 at the [[beginning]])) are called ἀδελφοί: אָח is used interchangeably [[with]] רֵַעַ ([[but]], as [[ἀδελφός]] is used for ὁ [[πλησίον]] to [[denote]] (as appears from [[Epictetus]] diss. 1,13, 3.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> a [[fellow]]-believer, united to [[another]] by the [[bond]] of [[affection]]; so [[most]] [[frequently]] of Christians, constituting as it were [[but]] a [[single]] [[family]]: Rec., and [[often]] [[elsewhere]]; [[yet]] in the [[phraseology]] of John it has [[reference]] to the [[new]] [[life]] [[unto]] [[which]] men are begotten [[again]] by the [[efficiency]] of a [[common]] [[father]], [[even]] God: [[δόξα]] ([[which]] [[see]], III:4b.) [[which]] he enjoys: Romans 8:29.