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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 29 times in 26 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3 - Then Judah said to Simeon his brother H251, “Come up with me into [fn]the territory allotted me, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and [fn]I in turn will go with you into [fn]the territory allotted you.” So Simeon went with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:13 - Then Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother H251, captured it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:17 - Then Judah went with Simeon his brother H251, and they struck the Canaanites living in Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9 - Then the sons of Israel cried to Yahweh, and Yahweh raised up a savior for the sons of Israel to save them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother H251.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:19 - And he said, “They were my brothers H251, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if only you had let them live, I would not kill you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 -

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s [fn]relatives H251 and spoke to them and to the whole family of the household of his mother’s father, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3 - And his mother’s [fn]relatives H251 spoke all these words on his behalf in the hearing of all the lords of Shechem; and [fn]they were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our [fn]relative H251.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5 - Then he came to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers H251 the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - but you have risen against my father’s house today and have killed his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your [fn]relative H251—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:21 - Then Jotham escaped and fled and went to Beer and remained there because of Abimelech his brother H251.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:24 - so that the violence [fn]done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother H251, who killed them, and on the lords of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers H251.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:26 -

Then Gaal the son of Ebed came with his [fn]relatives H251, and they crossed over into Shechem; and the lords of Shechem put their trust in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:31 - And he sent messengers to Abimelech [fn]deceitfully, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his [fn]relatives H251 have come to Shechem; and behold, they are [fn]stirring up the city against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:41 - Then Abimelech remained at Arumah, but Zebul drove out Gaal and his [fn]relatives H251 so that they could not remain in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:56

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:56 - Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he had done to his father in killing his seventy brothers H251.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:3 - So Jephthah fled from his brothers H251 and lived in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows gathered themselves [fn]about Jephthah, and they went out with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - But his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your [fn]relatives H251, or among all [fn]our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Then his brothers H251 and all his father’s household came down, carried him, brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the tomb of Manoah his father. Thus he had judged Israel twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:8 - So they came back to their brothers H251 at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers H251 said to them, “What do you report?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14

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And the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their relatives H251, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and [fn]household idols and a graven image and a molten image? So now, know what you should do.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:23 - Then the man, the owner of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers H251, please do not do evil. Since this man has come into my house, do not commit this disgraceful act.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:13 - “So now, give up the men, the [fn]vile fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and purge this evil from Israel.” But the sons of Benjamin were not willing to listen to the voice of their brothers H251, the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - And the sons of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening and asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall we again approach for battle against the sons of my brother H251 Benjamin?” And Yahweh said, “Go up against him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:28 - and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, Aaron’s son, stood before it to minister in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the sons of my brother H251 Benjamin, or shall I cease?” And Yahweh said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:6 - And the sons of Israel were sorry for their brother H251 Benjamin and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - “And it will be when their fathers or their brothers H251 come to contend with us, that we shall say to them, ‘Be gracious to us concerning them because we did not take for each man of Benjamin [fn]a wife in the battle, [fn]and you did not give your daughters to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’”
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