STRONGS G79:
ἀδελφή,
-ῆς,
ἡ (see
ἀδελφός) (from Aeschylus down),
sister;
1. a
full, own sister (i. e. by birth):
Matthew 19:29;
Luke 10:39;
John 11:1,
3,
5;
John 19:25;
Romans 16:15, etc.; respecting the sisters of Christ, mentioned in
Matthew 13:56;
Mark 6:3, see
ἀδελφός, 1.
2. one connected by the tie of the Christian religion:
1 Corinthians 7:15;
1 Corinthians 9:5;
Philemon 1:2 L T Tr WH;
James 2:15; with a subjective genitive, a Christian woman especially dear to one,
Romans 16:1.
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