Bible Names

Philadelphia: meaning of the name

Philadelphia means “love of a brother.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Philadelphia in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Philadelphia

Philadelphia in Scripture

“Philadelphia” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Revelation 1:11

    Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

  • Revelation 3:7

    And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;