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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 11 / 12 (Est 10:3–Eze 11:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:3 - For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, H251 seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:13 - And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's H251 house:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:18 - While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's H251 house:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:15 - My brethren H251 have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:13 - He hath put my brethren H251 far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:6 - For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother H251 for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:29 - I am a brother H251 to dragons, and a companion to owls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:17 - They are joined one to another, H251 they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:11 - Then came there unto him all his brethren, H251 and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:15 - And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:22 - I will declare thy name unto my brethren: H251 in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:14 - I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: H251 I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:7 - None of them can by any means redeem his brother, H251 nor give to God a ransom for him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:20 - Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; H251 thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:8 - I am become a stranger unto my brethren, H251 and an alien unto my mother's children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 122:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 122:8 - For my brethren H251 and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 133:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 133:1 - [[A Song of degrees of David.]] Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren H251 to dwell together in unity!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:19 - A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:2 - A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17 - A friend loveth at all times, and a brother H251 is born for adversity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:9 - He also that is slothful in his work is brother H251 to him that is a great waster.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:19 - A brother H251 offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:24 - A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:7 - All the brethren H251 of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10 - Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's H251 house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother H251 far off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:8 - There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: H251 yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:1 - O that thou wert as my brother, H251 that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:6 - When a man shall take hold of his brother H251 of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:19 - Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:2 - And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, H251 and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:6 - They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, H251 Be of good courage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:5 - Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren H251 that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:20 - And they shall bring all your brethren H251 for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:15 - And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, H251 even the whole seed of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4 - Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: H251 for every brother H251 will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:6 - For even thy brethren, H251 and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14 - And I will dash them one against another, H251 even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 - Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! H251 or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:35 - Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, H251 What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:26 - And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, H251 and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:16 - Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren H251 that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:34 - And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, H251 saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:9 - That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:14 - At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother H251 an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, H251 and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:3 - Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, H251 and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:8 - But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:10 - But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, H251 and his neighbours, and he is not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:17 - That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, H251 and consume away for their iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:15 - Son of man, thy brethren, H251 even thy brethren, H251 the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.

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