denotes “a brother, or near kinsman;” in the plural, “a community based on identity of origin or life.” It is used of: <\/p>\n
(1) male children of the same parents, Mat 1:2<\/span>; Mat 14:3<\/span>; (2) male descendants of the same parents, Act 7:23<\/span>, Act 7:26<\/span>; Heb 7:5<\/span>; (3) male children of the same mother, Mat 13:55<\/span>; 1Co 9:5<\/span>; Gal 1:19<\/span>; (4) people of the same nationality, Act 3:17<\/span>, Act 3:22<\/span>; Rom 9:3<\/span>. With “men” (aner, “male”), prefixed, it is used in addresses only, Act 2:29<\/span>, Act 2:37<\/span>, etc.; (5) any man, a neighbor, Luk 10:29<\/span>; Mat 5:22<\/span>; Mat 7:3<\/span>; (6) persons united by a common interest, Mat 5:47<\/span>; (7) persons united by a common calling, Rev 22:9<\/span>; (8) mankind, Mat 25:40<\/span>; Heb 2:17<\/span>; (9) the disciples, and so, by implication, all believers, Mat 28:10<\/span>; Joh 20:17<\/span>; (10) believers, apart from sex, Mat 23:8<\/span>; Act 1:15<\/span>; Rom 1:13<\/span>; 1Th 1:4<\/span>; Rev 19:10<\/span> (the word “sisters” is used of believers, only in 1Ti 5:2<\/span>); (11) believers, with aner, “male,” prefixed, and with “or sister” added, 1Co 7:14<\/span> (RV), 15; Jam 2:15<\/span>, male as distinct from female, Act 1:16<\/span>; Act 15:7<\/span>, Act 15:13<\/span>, but not Act 6:3<\/span>. * [* From Notes on Thessalonians, by Hogg and Vine, p. 32.] <\/p>\n Notes: (1) Associated words are adelphotes, primarily, “a brotherly relation,” and so, the community possessed of this relation, “a brotherhood,” 1Pe 2:17<\/span> (see 1Pe 5:9<\/span>, marg.); philadelphos, (phileo, “to love,” and adelphos), “fond of one’s brethren,” 1Pe 3:8<\/span>; “loving as brethren,” RV; philadelphia, “brotherly love,” Rom 12:10<\/span>; 1Th 4:9<\/span>; Heb 13:1<\/span>; “love of the brethren,” 1Pe 1:22<\/span>; 2Pe 1:7<\/span>, RV; pseudadelphos, “false brethren,” 2Co 11:26<\/span>; Gal 2:4<\/span>. <\/p>\n (2) In Luk 6:16<\/span>; Act 1:13<\/span>, the RV has “son,” for AV, “brother.” <\/p>\n (3) In Act 13:1<\/span>, for suntrophos, see BRING, B, Note (6). <\/p>\n Brother, Brethren, Brotherhood, Brotherly denotes “a brother, or near kinsman;” in the plural, “a community based on identity of origin or life.” It is used of: (1) male children of the same parents, Mat 1:2; Mat 14:3; (2) male descendants of the same parents, Act 7:23, Act 7:26; Heb 7:5; (3) male children of the … Continue reading “Brother, Brethren, Brotherhood, Brotherly”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"