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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 630 times in 572 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 12 (Gen 4:2–Gen 28:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:8 - And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go out into the plain; and it came to pass that when they were in the plain Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:9 - And the Lord God said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? and he said, I know not, am I my brother's keeper?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - And the Lord said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood cries to me out of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - And now thou art cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:21 - And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who [fn]invented the psaltery and harp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5 - For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand of his brother man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:22 - And Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25 - And he said, Cursed be the servant Chanaan, a slave shall he be to his brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:21 - And to Sem himself also were children born, the father of all the sons of Heber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:25 - And to Heber were born two sons, the name of the one, Phaleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother Jektan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had got, and every soul which they had got in Charrhan, and they went forth to go into the land of Chanaan.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - And Abram said to Lot, Let there not be a strife between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen, for we are [fn]brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each from his brother. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - And they took also Lot the son of Abram's brother, and his baggage, and departed, for he dwelt in Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - And one of them that had been rescued came and told Abram the [fn]Hebrew; and he dwelt by the oak of Mamre the Amorite the brother of Eschol, and the brother of Aunan, who were confederates with Abram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - And Abram having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own home-born servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:16 - And he recovered all the cavalry of Sodom, and he recovered Lot his nephew, and all his possessions, and the women and the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:12 - He shall be a wild man, his hands against all, and the hands of all against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:7 - and said to them, By no means, brethren, do not act villanously.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5 - Said he not to me, She is my sister, and said she not to me, He is my brother? with a pure heart and in the righteousness of my hands have I done this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - And it came to pass when God brought me forth out of the house of my father, that I said to her, This righteousness thou shalt perform to me, in every place into which we may enter, say of me, He is my brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - And to Sarrha he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, those shall be to thee for the price of thy countenance, and to all the women with thee, and speak the truth in all things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:20 - And it came to pass after these things, that it was reported to Abraam, [fn]saying, Behold, Melcha herself too has born sons to Nachor thy brother,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:21 - Uz the first-born, and Baux his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians, and Chazad, and

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:23 - these are eight sons, which Melcha bore to Nachor the brother of Abraam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - And it came to pass before he had done speaking in his mind, that behold, Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, the wife of Nachor, and the same [fn]the brother of Abraam, came forth, having a water-pot on her shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:27 - and said, Blessed be the Lord the God of my master Abraam, who has not suffered his righteousness to fail, nor his truth from my master, and the Lord has brought me prosperously to the house of the brother of my lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:29 - And Rebecca had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to meet the man, to the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:48 - And being well-pleased I worshipped the Lord, and I blessed the Lord the God of my master Abraam, who has prospered me in a true way, so that I should take the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:53

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:53 - And the servant having brought forth jewels of silver and gold and raiment, gave them to Rebecca, and gave gifts to her brother, and to her mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - And her brethren and her mother said, Let the virgin remain with us about ten days, and after that she shall depart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18 - And he dwelt from Evilat to Sur, which is opposite Egypt, until one comes to the Assyrians; he dwelt in the presence of all his brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - And after this came forth his brother, and his hand took hold of the heel of Esau; and she called his name Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when Rebecca bore them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:31 - And they arose in the morning, and swore each to his neighbour; and Isaac sent them forth, and they departed from him in safety.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - And Rebecca said to Jacob her younger son, Behold, I heard thy father speaking to Esau thy brother, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - And Jacob said to his mother Rebecca, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I a smooth man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - And he knew him not, for his hands were as the hands of his brother Esau, hairy; and he blessed him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29 - And let nations serve thee, and princes bow down to thee, and be thou lord of thy brother, and the sons of thy father shall do thee reverence; accursed is he that curses thee, and blessed is he that blesses thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - And it came to pass after Isaac had ceased blessing his son Jacob, it even came to pass, just when Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:35 - And he said to him, Thy brother has come with subtlety, and taken thy blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - And Isaac answered and said to Esau, If I have made him thy lord, and have made all his brethren his servants, and have strengthened him with corn and wine, what then shall I do for thee, son?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40 - And thou shalt live by thy sword, and shalt serve thy brother; and there shall be a time when thou shalt break and loosen his yoke from off thy neck.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - And Esau was angry with Jacob because of the blessing, with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his mind, Let the days of my father's mourning draw nigh, that I may slay my brother Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - And the words of Esau her elder son were reported to Rebecca, and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, Esau thy brother threatens thee to kill thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - Now then, my son, hear my voice, and rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia to Laban my brother into Charran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:44 - And dwell with him certain days, until thy brother's anger

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - and rage depart from thee, and he forget what thou hast done to him; and I will send and fetch thee thence, lest at any time I should be bereaved of you both in one day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the father of thy mother, and take to thyself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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