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Lexicon :: Strong's H251 - 'āḥ

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אָח
Transliteration
'āḥ
Pronunciation
awkh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive word
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TWOT Reference: 62a

Strong’s Definitions

אָח ʼâch, awkh; a primitive word; a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like H1]):—another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with 'Ah-' or 'Ahi-'.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 629x

The KJV translates Strong's H251 in the following manner: brethren (332x), brother (269x), another (23x), brotherly (1x), kindred (1x), like (1x), another (1x), other (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 629x
The KJV translates Strong's H251 in the following manner: brethren (332x), brother (269x), another (23x), brotherly (1x), kindred (1x), like (1x), another (1x), other (1x).

  1. brother

    1. brother of same parents

    2. half-brother (same father)

    3. relative, kinship, same tribe

    4. each to the other (reciprocal relationship)

    5. (fig.) of resemblance

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָח ʼâch, awkh; a primitive word; a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like H1]):—another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with 'Ah-' or 'Ahi-'.
STRONGS H251: Abbreviations
I. אָח 630 noun masculine brother (Phoenician אח, Arabic أَخ (construct أَخُو etc.), Sabean אחֿ (suffix אחֿיהו) CISiv. 1, 17 and 24 and others, Ethiopic እኀው፡ Assyrian aḫu compare DlW, Aramaic אַח, axoAf ; Palmyreme, Nabataean suffix אחוהי, אחיה); — absolute אָח Genesis 24:29 + (Ezekiel 18:10 strike out Co compare Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate; Ew Sm אַח; Dl BaEz x defends as＝one compare Assyrian aḫu) never with article; construct אֲחִי Genesis 10:21 +; suffix אָחִי Genesis 4:9 +; אָחִיךָ Genesis 4:9 +; אָחִיו Genesis 4:2 +; אָחִיהוּ Jeremiah 34:9 + 3 times etc.; plural אַחִים Genesis 13:8 +; so read Hosea 13:15 see DeCompl. Var. 23 compare below אָחוּ; construct אֲחֵי Numbers 27:10 +; suffix אַחַי Genesis 19:7 +; אֶחָ֑י 1 Samuel 20:29 + (but 1 Samuel 30:23 Greek Version of the LXX We אַחֲרֵי for אֶחָ֑י את); אַחֶיךָ Genesis 37:13 +; אֶחָיו Genesis 44:14 —
1. brother, born of same mother (& father) Genesis 4:2, 8, 9, 10, 11; Genesis 27:6, 11; Genesis 44:20; Genesis 49:5; compare Genesis 28:2; Genesis 29:10 (twice in verse) + Exodus 4:14 + often; also of half-brother Genesis 20:5, 13, 16 (on pa-rentage compare Genesis 20:12) Genesis 37:2, 4, 5 +, 2 Samuel 13:4, 7, 8 +.
2. indefinite＝relative; Lot, of Abraham Genesis 13:8; Genesis 14:12, 14, 16; Jacob, of Laban Genesis 29:12, 15 (nephew); hence of kinship in wider sense; member of same tribe Numbers 16:10; Numbers 18:2, 6; 2 Samuel 19:13; of same people Exodus 2:11 (twice in verse); Exodus 4:18; Deuteronomy 15:12; Judges 14:3; Isaiah 66:20; Nehemiah 5:1, 5, 8 see especially Leviticus 19:17 compare Leviticus 19:18 (extended to include sojourner גֵּר Leviticus 19:34); of Israel & Judah 2 Samuel 19:42; Israel & Edom Numbers 20:14; compare of Ishmael Genesis 16:12; Genesis 25:18; of friend 2 Samuel 1:26; 1 Kings 9:13; 1 Kings 20:32, 33 of allies בְּרִית א׳ Amos 1:9.
3. figurative of resemblance Job 30:29 אָח הָיִיתִי לְתַנִּים (|| רֵעַ לִבְנוֺת יַעֲנָה i.e. by reason of his crying, compare Di; Proverbs 18:9 מַשְׁחִית לְבַעַל הוּא אָח בִּמְלַאכְתּוֺ מִתְרַפֶּה.
4. in phrase one... another אִישׁ אָחִיו Genesis 9:5; Joel 2:8; Ze Joel 7:10; אִישׁ ֗֗֗ אָחִיו Genesis 13:11 + 25 times + Exodus 32:27 (where also same phrase with רֵעֵהוּ & קְרֹבוֺ — see these words — & also אִישׁ, אֶחָד; for development of idiom compare Deuteronomy 15:2; Isaiah 19:2; Jeremiah 34:14 (compare Jeremiah 34:15) Jeremiah 34:17 Ezekiel 38:21; Haggai 2:22; usually of men; of faces of golden cherubim Exodus 25:20; Exodus 37:9; of scales of crocodile Job 41:9. (H254 אָח fire-pot)
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:2; 4:2; 4:8; 4:9; 4:9; 4:9; 4:10; 4:11; 9:5; 10:21; 13:8; 13:8; 13:11; 14:12; 14:14; 14:16; 16:12; 19:7; 20:5; 20:12; 20:13; 20:16; 24:29; 25:18; 27:6; 27:11; 28:2; 29:10; 29:12; 29:15; 37:2; 37:4; 37:5; 37:13; 44:14; 44:20; 49:5

Exodus

2:11; 4:14; 4:18; 25:20; 32:27; 37:9

Leviticus

19:17; 19:18; 19:34

Numbers

16:10; 18:2; 18:6; 20:14; 27:10

Deuteronomy

15:2; 15:12

Judges

14:3

1 Samuel

20:29; 30:23

2 Samuel

1:26; 13:4; 13:7; 13:8; 19:13; 19:42

1 Kings

9:13; 20:32; 20:33

Nehemiah

5:1; 5:5; 5:8

Job

30:29; 41:9

Proverbs

18:9

Isaiah

19:2; 66:20

Jeremiah

34:9; 34:14; 34:15; 34:17

Ezekiel

18:10; 38:21

Hosea

13:15

Joel

2:8

Amos

1:9

Haggai

2:22

H251

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Strong's Number H251 matches the Hebrew אָח ('āḥ),
which occurs 99 times in 95 verses in '1Ch' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ch 1:19–1Ch 19:11)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:19 - To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days [the population of] the earth was divided [according to its languages], and his brother’s name was Joktan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:32 - The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan. Jether died childless.

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The sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his firstborn was the father of Ziph; and his son Mareshah was the father of Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:9 - Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; but his mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I gave birth to him in pain.”

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Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, the father of Eshton.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:27 - Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many sons, neither did all their family multiply like the sons of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:2 - Though Judah prevailed over his brothers, and from him came [David] the leader [and eventually the Messiah], yet the birthright was Joseph’s—

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:7 - And his brothers (relatives) by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, were the chief Jeiel, and Zechariah,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:13 - Their relatives from the households of their fathers: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber—seven in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:39 - Heman’s [tribal] brother Asaph stood at his right hand: Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:44 - Their relatives the sons of Merari stood at the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:48 - Their relatives the Levites [who were not descended from Aaron] were appointed for all the other kinds of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:5 - Their relatives among all the families of Issachar, courageous men, registered by genealogies, were 87,000 in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:16 - Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son; she named him Peresh. The name of his brother was Sheresh; his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:22 - Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:35 - The sons of his brother Helem (Hotham): Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:32 - Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their relatives in Jerusalem opposite their other relatives.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 8:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:39 - The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:6 - From the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their relatives, 690 [of them].

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:9 - and their relatives according to their generations, 956. All these men were heads of fathers’ households according to their fathers’ houses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:13 - and their relatives, heads of their fathers’ households, 1,760—very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:17 -

The gatekeepers were: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives (Shallum the chief

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:19 - Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father’s house, the Korahites, were in charge of the work of the service, doorkeepers of the Tent; and their fathers had been in charge of the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entrance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:25 - Their relatives in their villages were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:32 - Some of their Kohathite relatives were in charge of the showbread to prepare it every Sabbath.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:38 - Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their relatives in Jerusalem, opposite their other relatives.

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Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of the [other] [fn]three, and he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and he had a name as well as the three.

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Now the mighty men of the armies were: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:38 - Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:45 - Jediael the son of Shimri, and his brother Joha, the Tizite,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:2 - They were armed with bows, and could use the right hand or the left to sling stones and shoot arrows from the bow; they were Saul’s relatives from [the tribe of] Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:29 - Of the tribe of Benjamin, the relatives of [King] Saul, 3,000; for until now the majority of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 12:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:32 - Of the tribe of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, two hundred chiefs; and all their relatives were at their command;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:39 - They were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their relatives had prepared for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:2 - David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is from the LORD our God, let us send word everywhere to our fellow countrymen who remain in all the land of Israel, and to the priests and Levites who are with them in their cities with pasture lands, so that they may meet with us;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:5 - of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, with 120 of his relatives;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:6 - of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, with 220 of his relatives;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:7 - of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, with 130 of his relatives;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:8 - of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, with 200 of his relatives;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:9 - of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, with 80 of his relatives;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:10 - of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, with 112 of his relatives.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:12 - and he said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites; consecrate yourselves, both you and your relatives, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

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Then David told the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives as the singers, with instruments of music—harps, lyres, and cymbals—to play loudly and to raise sounds of joy [with their voices].

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:17 - So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel, and from his relatives, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and from the sons of Merari their relatives, Ethan the son of Kushaiah,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:18 - and with them their relatives of the second rank: Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.

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Then on that day David first entrusted to Asaph and his relatives to give thanks to the LORD [as their chief task].

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So David left Asaph and his relatives there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister before the ark continually, as each day’s work required;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:38 - and Obed-edom with his sixty-eight relatives; also Obed-edom the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah, were to be gatekeepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:39 - David left Zadok the priest and his relatives the priests before the dwelling place (tabernacle) of the LORD in the high place which was at Gibeon,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:11 - The rest of the soldiers he placed in the hand of Abishai his brother, and they lined up against the Ammonites.

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