from Philadelphos (the same as
G5361), a king of Pergamos; Philadelphia, a place in Asia Minor:--Philadelphia.
Philadelphia = "brotherly love"
- 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.
