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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 48 times in 43 verses in 'Deu' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16 - And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and him also that sojourneth with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, They are a people greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:4 - And command the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you; and ye shall be very guarded:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - And we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, by the plain, by Elath, and by Ezion-geber, and we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18 - And I commanded you at that time, saying, Jehovah your God hath given you this land to take possession of it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all who are combatants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:20 - until Jehovah give rest to your brethren, as well as to you, and they also take possession of the land that Jehovah your God giveth them beyond the Jordan; then shall ye return, each man to his possession, which I have given you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah thy God told him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is to thee as thy soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (whom thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - and this is the manner of the release: Every creditor shall relax his hand from the loan which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not demand it of his neighbour, or of his brother; for a release to Jehovah hath been proclaimed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - Of the foreigner thou mayest demand it; but what is thine with thy brother thy hand shall release;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:7 - If there be amongst you a poor man, any one of thy brethren in one of thy gates, in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy brother in need;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be sin in thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:11 - For the needy shall never cease from within the land; therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, have been sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years, and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - thou shalt only set him king over thee whom Jehovah thy God will choose: from among thy brethren shalt thou set a king over thee; thou mayest not set a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left; that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - but they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: Jehovah, he is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:7 - and shall serve in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brethren the Levites that stand there before Jehovah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:15 - Jehovah thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him shall ye hearken;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:18 - A prophet will I raise up unto them from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:18 - and the judges shall make thorough inquiry; and if the witness be a false witness, and he have testified falsely against his brother,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:19 - then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:8 - And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and shall say, What man is there that is timid and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart melt as well as his heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:1 - Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them back unto thy brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:2 - And if thy brother be not near unto thee, and thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it unto him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:3 - And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his clothing; and so shalt thou do with everything that is lost of thy brother, which he loseth, and thou findest: thou mayest not hide thyself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:4 - Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case help him to lift them up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7 - Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother. Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a sojourner in his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:19 - Thou shalt take no interest of thy brother, interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that can be lent upon interest:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - of a foreigner thou mayest take interest, but of thy brother thou shalt not take interest; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the business of thy hand in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 - If a man be found who hath stolen one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and who hath treated him as a slave and sold him, that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 - Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - With forty stripes shall they beat him; they shall not exceed, lest, if they continue to beat him with many stripes above these, thy brother become despicable in thine eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry a stranger abroad: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:6 - And it shall be, that the firstborn that she beareth shall stand in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not blotted out from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - But if the man like not to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel: he will not perform for me the duty of a husband's brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:9 - then shall his brother's wife come near to him before the eyes of the elders, and draw his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that will not build up his brother's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 - When men fight together one with another, and the wife of the one come near to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and stretch out her hand, and seize him by his secret parts,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54 - The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother, and the wife of his bosom, and the residue of his children which he hath left;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:50

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:50 - and die on the mountain whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died on mount Hor, and was gathered unto his peoples;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:9 - Who said to his father and to his mother, I see him not, And he acknowledged not his brethren, And knew not his own children; For they have observed thy word, And kept thy covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:16 - And by the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof. And let the good will of him that dwelt in the bush Come upon the head of Joseph, Upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:24 - And of Asher he said, Asher shall be blessed with sons; Let him be acceptable to his brethren, And let him dip his foot in oil.
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