ἀδελφιδός
beloved, nephew
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀδελφιδός appears in the Greek Septuagint — 34 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Song of Solomon 1:13 ἀδελφιδός My kinsman is to me a bundle of myrrh; he shall lie between my breasts.
- Song of Solomon 1:14 ἀδελφιδός My kinsman is to me a cluster of camphor in the vineyards of Engaddi.
- Song of Solomon 1:16 ἀδελφιδός Behold, you are fair, my kinsman, yes, beautiful, overshadowing our bed.
- Song of Solomon 2:3 ἀδελφιδός As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.
- Song of Solomon 2:8 ἀδελφιδός The voice of my kinsman! behold, he comes leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
- Song of Solomon 2:9 ἀδελφιδός My kinsman is like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Baethel: behold, he is behind our wall, looking through the windows, peeping through the lattices.
- Song of Solomon 2:10 ἀδελφιδός My kinsman answers, and says to me, Rise up, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove.
- Song of Solomon 2:16 ἀδελφιδός My kinsman is mine, and I am his: he feeds his flock among the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 2:17 ἀδελφιδός Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, turn, my kinsman, be you like to a roe or young hart on the mountains of the ravines.
- Song of Solomon 4:16 ἀδελφιδός Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; and blow through my garden, and let my spices flow out.
- Song of Solomon 5:2 ἀδελφιδός I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
- Song of Solomon 5:4 ἀδελφιδός My kinsman put forth his hand by the hole of the door, and my belly moved for him.
- Song of Solomon 5:5 ἀδελφιδός I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
- Song of Solomon 5:6 ἀδελφιδός I opened to my kinsman; my kinsman was gone: my soul failed at his speech: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he answered me not.
- Song of Solomon 5:6 ἀδελφιδός I opened to my kinsman; my kinsman was gone: my soul failed at his speech: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he answered me not.
- Song of Solomon 5:8 ἀδελφιδός I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if you⌃ should find my kinsman, what are you⌃ to say to him? That I am wounded with love.
- Song of Solomon 5:9 ἀδελφιδός What is your kinsman more than another kinsman, O you beautiful among women? what is your kinsman more than another kinsman, that you have so charged us?
- Song of Solomon 5:9 ἀδελφιδός What is your kinsman more than another kinsman, O you beautiful among women? what is your kinsman more than another kinsman, that you have so charged us?
- Song of Solomon 5:9 ἀδελφιδός What is your kinsman more than another kinsman, O you beautiful among women? what is your kinsman more than another kinsman, that you have so charged us?
- Song of Solomon 5:9 ἀδελφιδός What is your kinsman more than another kinsman, O you beautiful among women? what is your kinsman more than another kinsman, that you have so charged us?
- Song of Solomon 5:10 ἀδελφιδός My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads.
- Song of Solomon 5:16 ἀδελφιδός His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.
- Song of Solomon 6:1 ἀδελφιδός My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, to feed his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
- Song of Solomon 6:1 ἀδελφιδός My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, to feed his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
- Song of Solomon 6:2 ἀδελφιδός I am my kinsman's, and my kinsman is mine, who feeds among the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 6:3 ἀδελφιδός You are fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as armies set in array.
- Song of Solomon 6:3 ἀδελφιδός You are fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as armies set in array.
- Song of Solomon 7:10 ἀδελφιδός I am my kinsman's, and his desire is toward me.
- Song of Solomon 7:11 ἀδελφιδός Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
- Song of Solomon 7:12 ἀδελφιδός Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, if the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give you my breasts.
- Song of Solomon 7:14 ἀδελφιδός
- Song of Solomon 8:1 ἀδελφιδός I would that you, O my kinsman, were he that sucked the breasts of my mother; when I found you without, I would kiss you; yes, they should not despise me.
- Song of Solomon 8:5 ἀδελφιδός Who is this that comes up all white, leaning on her kinsman? I raised you up under an apple tree; there your mother brought you forth; there she that bore you brought you forth.
- Song of Solomon 8:14 ἀδελφιδός Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe or a fawn on the mountains of spices.
About this word
About this word
ἀδελφιδός (adelphidós), “beloved, nephew,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 34 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →