φιλαδελφία
brotherly love
‘brotherly love’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 3 times (38%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 3 times (38%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 1 time (13%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5360 appears — 7 distinct verses across 6 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Romans 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
2 Peter 1 verse
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 1:11 Φιλαδελφίαν n acc sg fem saying, "What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."
- Revelation 3:7 Φιλαδελφίᾳ n dat sg fem "To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“brotherly love” is the headline sense of the Greek noun φιλαδελφια (philadelphía). First canonically at Romans 12:10, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 7 verses — uncommon. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Revelation. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 7-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5360 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 2 verses 29%
- Romans 1 verse 14%
- 1 Thessalonians 1 verse 14%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Johannine 2 verses · 29%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 29%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 29%
- Revelation 2 verses · 29%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Brotherly love 3×, Brotherly kindness 2×
- American Standard Version: Love 3×, Brotherly kindness 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Brotherly love 3×, Brotherly kindness 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Brotherly love 4×, Brotherly affection 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5360 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5360 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5360 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5360 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- love of brothers or sisters, brotherly love
- in the NT the love which Christians cherish for each other as brethren
Word origin
Derived from φιλαδελφος (philádelphos) (G5361) — loving brother.
From G5361 ; fraternal affection : - brotherly love (kindness) love of the brethren.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G5360 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| φιλαδελφίαν philadelphían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Peter 1:22 | 2 |
| φιλαδελφίᾳ philadelphía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 12:10 | 2 |
| Φιλαδελφίαν Philadelphían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 1:11 | 1 |
| Φιλαδελφίᾳ Philadelphía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 3:7 | 1 |
| φιλαδελφία philadelphía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 13:1 | 1 |
| φιλαδελφίας philadelphías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | 1 Thessalonians 4:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5360, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
