Philadelphia means “love of the brethren” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5360 — neqamah (“vengeance”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5360 φιλαδελφία (philadelphia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. philadelphia (fil-ad-el-fee'-ah) n. 1. fraternal affection [from G5361] It has 9 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include brotherly, affectioned, and love. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
philadelphia (fil-ad-el-fee'-ah) n. 1. fraternal affection [from G5361] KJV: brotherly love (kindness), love of the brethren Root(s): G5361
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5360. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
brotherly love
Usage: φιλαδελφία, -ας, ἡ (φιλάδελφος), [in LXX: 4Ma.13:23 4Mac 13:26 4Mac 14:1 * ;] the love of brothers, brotherly love: of Christians' mutual love as brethren (see: ἀδελφός), Rom.12:10, 1Th.4:9, Heb.13:1, 1Pe.1:22, 2Pe.1:7.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render philadelphia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5360 (φιλαδελφία) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Let brotherly love continue.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Brotherly love being thus sympathetically constituted, the seven brethren had a more sympathetic mutual harmony.
For it acting along with religion, made their brotherly feeling more desirable to them.
And more than this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5360.
And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Let brotherly love continue.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
Brotherly love being thus sympathetically constituted, the seven brethren had a more sympathetic mutual harmony.
For it acting along with religion, made their brotherly feeling more desirable to them.
And more than this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5360, grouped by book.
Philadelphia (Strong's G5360) is a Greek word most simply glossed "love of the brethren". philadelphia (fil-ad-el-fee'-ah) n. 1. fraternal affection [from G5361]
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G5360 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5360 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as brotherly, affectioned, and love. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5360, with linked reader references where each row is available.