Limitless Word
ἀδελφήadelphḗ
GreekG7924 occurrences (KJV)

a sister (naturally or ecclesiastically)

KJV renders it: sister

Where it appears

  • Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
  • Matt 13:56Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?”
  • Matt 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
  • Mark 3:35For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”
  • Mark 6:3Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.
  • Mark 10:29Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
  • Mark 10:30but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
  • Luke 10:39She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.
  • Luke 10:40But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”
  • Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
  • John 11:1Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
  • John 11:3The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
  • John 11:5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
  • John 11:28When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here, and is calling you.”
  • John 11:39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
  • John 19:25But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
  • Acts 23:16But Paul’s sister’s son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.
  • Rom 16:1I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
  • Rom 16:15Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.
  • 1 Cor 7:15Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
  • 1 Cor 9:5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
  • 1 Tim 5:2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
  • Jas 2:15And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
  • 2 Jn 1:13The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.