Strong's Number 5359

Transliteration:
Philadelpheia {fil-ad-el'-fee-ah}
Word Origin:
from Philadelphos (the same as 5361)
TDNT:
1:144,*
Part of Speech:
proper name location
Usage in the KJV:
Philadelphia 2

Total: 2
Definition:
Philadelphia = "brotherly love"
  1. a city of Lydia in Asia Minor, situated near the eastern base of of Mount Tmolus, founded and named by the Pergamene king, Attalus II Philadelphus. After the death of Attalus III Philometor, 133 BC, it together with his entire kingdom came by his will under the jurisdiction of the Romans.