ἀδελφή

“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.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”

Jesus 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.”

But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

Yet 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.

Have 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?

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

The children of your chosen sister greet you. Amen.