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Philadelphia

A city of Lydia, in Asia Minor, and one of the seven churches of Asia. It derived its name from Attalus Philadelphus, its founder; Philadelphia is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “love of a brother.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Person
Strong’s
G5359
Greek
Φιλαδέλφεια · Philadelpheia
Name meaning
love of a brother According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

G5359

Φιλαδέλφεια · Philadelpheia

Glosses: Philadelphia

Φιλαδελφία (Rec. -έλφεια), -ας, ἡ Philadelphia, a city of Lydia: Rev. 1:11 3:7.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Philadelphia

love of a brother

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

PHILADELPHIA

a city of Lydia, in Asia Minor, and one of the seven churches of Asia. It derived its name from Attalus Philadelphus, its founder; and was seated on a branch of Mount Tmolus, about twenty-five miles south-east of Sardis, and seventy, in nearly the same direction, from Smyrna.

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Concordance

Concordance

Philadelphia

Indexed occurrences: 2

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All Scripture references2 references

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Topical Bible

Naves Topical

PHILADELPHIA

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for PHILADELPHIA.
Scripture references:

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Philadelphia

Meaning:
love of a brother

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

Sources

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