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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 26 times in 24 verses in '2Ch' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:12 - and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives H251, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, standing east of the altar, and with them 120 priests blowing trumpets

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:4 - ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You shall not go up and fight against your brothers H251; return every man to his house, for this thing is from Me.”’” So they listened to the words of Yahweh and returned from going against Jeroboam.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:22 - And Rehoboam set up Abijah the son of Maacah to be head and ruler among his brothers H251, for he intended to make him king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:10 - “Whenever any dispute comes to you from your brothers H251 who live in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, you shall warn them so that they may not be guilty before Yahweh and wrath may not come on you and your brothers H251. Thus you shall do, and you will not be guilty.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:2 - Now he had brothers H251, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, [fn]Azaryahu, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:4 -

So Jehoram arose over the kingdom of his father and strengthened himself, and he killed all his brothers H251 with the sword, and some of the commanders of Israel also.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:13 - but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot as the house of Ahab played the harlot, and you have also killed your brothers H251, [fn]your own family, who were better than you,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:8 - Now it happened when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers H251 attending to Ahaziah, and killed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:8 -

Then the sons of Israel carried away captive of their brothers H251 200,000 women, sons, and daughters; and they plundered also a great deal of spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:11 - “So now, listen to me and return the captives whom you carried away from your brothers H251, for the burning anger of Yahweh is against you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - Then the men who were designated by name arose, took hold of the captives, and they clothed all their naked ones from the spoil; and they gave them clothes and sandals, fed them and gave them drink, anointed them with oil, led all their feeble ones on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers H251; then they returned to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:15 -

And they gathered their brothers H251, set themselves apart as holy, and went in to cleanse the house of Yahweh, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:34 - But the priests were too few, so that they were unable to skin all the burnt offerings; therefore their brothers H251 the Levites helped them until the work was completed and until the other priests had set themselves apart as holy. For the Levites were more upright of heart to set themselves apart as holy than the priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:7 - “Now do not be like your fathers and your brothers H251, who were unfaithful to Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you see.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:9 - “For when you return to Yahweh, your brothers H251 and your sons will find compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land. For Yahweh your God is gracious and compassionate, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:12 - And they faithfully brought in the contribution and the tithe and the holy things; and Conaniah the Levite was the officer over them and his brother H251 Shimei was second.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:13 - Now Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers [fn]assisting at the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother H251 by the appointment of King Hezekiah, and Azariah was the chief officer of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:15 - Now assisting [fn]by his hand were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests, to distribute faithfully their portions to their brothers H251 by divisions, whether great or small,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:5 - “Moreover, stand in the holy place according to the sections of the fathers’ households of your brothers H251 the [fn]lay people, and according to the Levites, by division of a father’s household.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:6 - “Now slaughter the Passover animals, sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brothers H251 to do according to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9 - Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers H251, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the [fn]officials of the Levites, contributed to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 from the flocks and 500 bulls.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:15 - The singers, the sons of Asaph, were also at their stations according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers at each gate did not have to turn aside from their service, because the Levites their brothers H251 prepared for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:4 - Then the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother H251 king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Joahaz his brother H251 and brought him to Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:10 - And at the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of Yahweh, and he made his relative H251 Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
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