Romans 14:21:13Rom.14.21.W13TAB
ἀδελφός
adelphos
“brother”
- Transliteration
- a-del-PHOS
- Extended
- ah-dehl-PHOS
- IPA
- /a.delˈpʰos/
Meaning by language
- English
- brother
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Delta | th — as in this | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Phi | ph — as in phone (f) | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
a-del-PHOS
- sentence
ka-LON to mê pha-GEIN KRE-a mê-DE pi-EIN OI-non mê-DE en hôi ho a-del-PHOS sou pros-KOP-tei ê skan-da-LI-dze-tai ê as-the-NEI
Exegesis
Within this relative clause, ho adelphos sou proskoptei {ὁ ἀδελφός σου προσκόπτει | ho adelphós sou proskóptei} presents “your brother” as the subject who “stumbles,” and this is followed by two additional finite verbs, skandalízeta {σκανδαλίζεται | skandalízeta} ‘is offended’ and astheneî {ἀσθενεῖ | astheneî} ‘is weakened,’ all connected by ē {ἢ | ē} “or.” The coordinated verbal series portrays different but related forms of spiritual harm to another believer’s conscience. In translation, kalon is rendered with an impersonal construction (“It is good” and “It is the right thing”) to reflect the idiomatic way Greek states general evaluations, while the relative phrase with en hō is translated more literally in the formal reconstruction and made more explicit in the dynamic rendering (“to do anything that might cause”) to capture the inclusive ethical scope implied by the Greek syntax.
Root and etymology
delphysdelta–epsilon–lambda–phi–upsilon–sigma
“womb, origin of kinship”
In context — Romans 14:21
It is good not to eat meat nor to drink wine nor to do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak .
About this coordinate
Romans 14:21:13 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 13 of Romans 14:21, so the Greek word ἀδελφός (adelphos) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Rom.14.21.W13, which extends further down to each syllable (Rom.14.21.W13.S1) and character.