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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 28 times in 27 verses in 'Neh' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:2 - That Hanani, one of my brethren, H251 came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:1 - Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren H251 the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:18 - After him repaired their brethren, H251 Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:2 - And he spake before his brethren H251 and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:14 - And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, H251 your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:19 - And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:23 - So neither I, nor my brethren, H251 nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:1 - And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren H251 the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:5 - Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, H251 our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:7 - Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. H251 And I set a great assembly against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren H251 the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? H251 or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:10 - I likewise, and my brethren, H251 and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:14 - Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren H251 have not eaten the bread of the governor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:2 - That I gave my brother H251 Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:10 - And their brethren, H251 Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - They clave to their brethren, H251 their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:12 - And their brethren H251 that did the work of the house were eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:13 - And his brethren, H251 chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:14 - And their brethren, H251 mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:17 - And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, H251 and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:19 - Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren H251 that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:7 - Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren H251 in the days of Jeshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:8 - Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren. H251

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:9 - Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, H251 were over against them in the watches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:24 - And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren H251 over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:36 - And his brethren, H251 Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:13 - And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren. H251
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