allelon marks a reciprocal relation among people, whether they love, serve, greet, forgive, or act against each other.

The attested use marks participants acting or relating reciprocally within a group: they are commanded to love, serve, forgive, encourage, and care for each other, while other passages describe mutual speech, disagreement, accusation, or harm. The accusative, genitive, and dative forms occur in these varied clauses without displaying separate lexical meanings.

1. Reciprocal relation within a group · dominant

   The forms identify people as mutually involved in the action or relation named by the surrounding clause. In John 13:34 the APB renders the command to love “one another”; in Galatians 5:13 it renders service through love “serve one another”; and in Colossians 3:13 the same reciprocal relation occurs with bearing with and forgiving. The term also marks adverse or ordinary interaction: Acts 28:4 reports people speaking “to one another,” while Galatians 5:15 describes people biting and devouring each other.

   John 13:34Galatians 5:13Colossians 3:13Acts 28:4Galatians 5:151 Thessalonians 5:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the reciprocal relation with “one another,” including commands to love, greet, encourage, and forgive. It also uses “each other,” “among themselves,” or possessive wording such as “one another's burdens”; these are verse-level renderings.