brothers and sisters

storch at storchsites.de storch at storchsites.de
Sun Feb 13 05:08:53 EST 2000


Hello everybody,

this may be a problem that mostly occurs in german bibletranslations.
I had a discussion about the translation of ADELFOI. The word is used very 
frequently in the letters of Paul, James and John is usually translated as 
"Bruder" (brothers). A friend of mine was told by a pastor (and so far 
studied greek) that a better translation would be "Geschwister" (brothers 
and Sisters). He said that the plural of ADELFOS could be translated both 
"brothers" and "brothers and sisters".
Is this correct?

thankful for your help,

Storch




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