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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)
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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 [later] she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept the flocks [of sheep and goats], but Cain cultivated the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:8 - Cain talked with Abel his brother [about what God had said]. And when they were [alone, working] in the field, Cain [fn]attacked Abel his brother and killed him.

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Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he [lied and] said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - The LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s [innocent] blood is crying out to Me from the ground [for justice].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - “And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s [shed] blood from your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:21 - His brother’s name was Jubal; he became the father of all those [musicians] who play the lyre and flute.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5 - “For your lifeblood I will most certainly require an accounting; from every animal [that kills a person] I will require it. And from man, from every man’s brother [that is, anyone who murders] I will require the life of man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:22 - Ham, the father of Canaan, saw [by accident] the nakedness of his father, and [to his father’s shame] told his two brothers outside.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25 - So he said,

“Cursed be Canaan [the son of Ham];

[fn]A servant of servants

He shall be to his brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:21 -

Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber [including the Hebrews], the [fn]older brother of Japheth, children were born.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:25 - Two sons were born to Eber; the name of one was Peleg (division), for [the inhabitants of] the earth were divided in his days; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had acquired, and the people (servants) which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

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So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife and disagreement between you and me, nor between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, because we are relatives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - Then Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and he traveled east. So they separated from each other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - And they also took [captive] Lot, Abram’s nephew, and his possessions and left, for he was living in Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 -

Then a survivor who had escaped [from the invading forces on the other side of the Jordan] came and told Abram the [fn]Hebrew. Now he was living by the terebinths (oaks) of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner—they were allies of Abram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - When Abram heard that his nephew [Lot] had been captured, he armed and led out his trained men, born in his own house, [numbering] three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far [north] as Dan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:16 - And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his nephew Lot and his possessions, and also the women, and the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:12 -

“He (Ishmael) will be a wild donkey of a man;

His hand will be against every man [continually fighting]

And every man’s hand against him;

And he will dwell in defiance of all his brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:7 - and said, “Please, my brothers, do not do something so wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5 - “Did Abraham not tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - “When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This kindness and loyalty you can show me: at every place we stop, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - Then to Sarah he said, “Look, I have given this brother of yours a [fn]thousand pieces of silver; it is to compensate you [for all that has happened] and to vindicate your honor before all who are with you; before all men you are cleared and compensated.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:20 -

Now after these things Abraham was told, “Milcah has borne children to your brother Nahor:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:21 - Uz the firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:23 - Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight [children] Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

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Before Eliezer had finished speaking (praying), Rebekah came out with her [water] jar on her shoulder. Rebekah was the daughter of Bethuel the [fn]son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:27 - He said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not denied His lovingkindness and His truth to my master. As for me, the LORD led me to the house of my master’s brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:29 - Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to the man at the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:48 - “And I bowed down my head and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take the daughter of my master’s brother to his son [as a wife].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:53 - Then the servant brought out jewelry of silver, jewelry of gold, and articles of clothing, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But Rebekah’s brother and mother said, “Let the girl stay with us a few days—at least ten; then she may go.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18 - Ishmael’s sons (descendants) settled from Havilah to Shur which is [fn]east of Egypt as one goes toward Assyria; he [fn]settled [fn]opposite (east) of all his relatives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - Afterward his brother came out, and his hand grasped Esau’s heel, so he was named Jacob ([fn]one who grabs by the heel, supplanter). Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:31 - They got up early in the morning and swore oaths [pledging to do nothing but good to each other]; and Isaac sent them on their way and they left him in peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to Jacob her [younger and favorite] son, “Listen carefully: I heard your father saying to Esau your brother,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Listen, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth [skinned] man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - He could not recognize him [as Jacob], because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29 -

May peoples serve you,

And nations bow down to you;

Be lord and master over your brothers,

And may your mother’s sons bow down to you.

May those who curse you be cursed,

And may those who bless you be blessed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 -

Now as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:35 - Isaac said, “Your brother came deceitfully and has [fraudulently] taken away your blessing [for himself].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - But Isaac replied to Esau, “Listen carefully: I have made Jacob your lord and master; I have given him all his brothers and relatives as servants; and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then, can I do for you, my son?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40 -

But you shall live by your sword,

And serve your brother;

However it shall come to pass when you break loose [from your anger and hatred],

That you will tear his yoke off your neck [and you will be free of him].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 -

So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are very near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When these words of her elder son Esau were repeated to Rebekah, she sent for Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Listen carefully, your brother Esau is comforting himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - “So now, my son, listen and do what I say; go, escape to my brother Laban in Haran!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:44 - “Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s anger subsides.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - “When your brother’s anger toward you subsides and he forgets what you did to him, then [fn]I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I be deprived of you both in a single day?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - “[fn]Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take from there as a wife for yourself one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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