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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H251 matches the Hebrew אָח ('āḥ),
which occurs 630 times in 572 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 12 (Gen 50:14–Num 25:6)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:14 - After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers H251, and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:15 -

Then Joseph’s brothers H251 saw that their father was dead, and they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and returns back to us all the evil which we dealt against him!”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:17 - ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph, “Please forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers H251 and their sin, for they dealt evil against you.”’ So now, please forgive the transgression of the slaves of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:18 - Then his brothers H251 also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your slaves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - And Joseph said to his brothers H251, “I am about to die, but God will surely [fn]take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:6 - Then Joseph died, and all his brothers H251 and all that generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:11 -

Now it happened in those days, that Moses had grown up. And he went out to his brothers H251 and looked on their [fn]hard labors. And he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers H251.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - Then the anger of Yahweh burned against Moses, and He said, “Is there not your brother H251 Aaron the Levite? I know that [fn]he can certainly speak. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to meet you. And he will see you and be glad in his heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:18 -

Then Moses went and returned to [fn]Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers H251 who are in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:1 -

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “See, I [fn]set you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother H251 Aaron shall be your prophet.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:2 - “You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother H251 Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:23 - They did not see one another H251, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the sons of Israel had light in their places of habitation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15 - And the sons of Israel saw it and said to one another H251, “[fn]What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:20 - “The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another H251; the faces of the cherubim are to be toward the mercy seat.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:1 -

“Now as for you, bring near to yourself Aaron your brother H251, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, to minister as priests to Me—Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:2 - “You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother H251, for glory and for beauty.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:4 - “These are the garments which they shall make: a [fn]breastpiece and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of checkered work, a turban and a sash, and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother H251 and his sons, in order for him to minister as priest to Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:41 - “You shall put them on Aaron your brother H251 and on his sons with him; and you shall anoint them and [fn]ordain them and set them apart as holy, that they may minister to Me as priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - And he said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Every man among you put his sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill every man his brother H251 and every man his friend and every man his [fn]neighbor.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:29 - Then Moses said, “[fn]Be ordained today to Yahweh—for every man has been against his son and against his brother H251—in order that He may bestow a blessing upon you today.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:9 - The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other H251; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:10 - ‘And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall [fn]belong to all the sons of Aaron, [fn]to all alike H251.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:4 -

Then Moses called to Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come near, carry your [fn]relatives H251 away from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6 - Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not [fn]uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not become wrathful against all the congregation. But your [fn]relatives H251, the whole house of Israel, shall weep over the burning which Yahweh has [fn]brought about.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 - And Yahweh said to Moses:

“Tell your brother H251 Aaron that he shall not enter at any time into the holy place inside the veil, before the [fn]mercy seat which is on the ark, so that he will not die; for I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:14 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother H251; you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:16 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s H251 wife; it is your brother’s H251 nakedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:17 -

‘You shall not hate your brother H251 in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, and so not bear sin because of him.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:21 - ‘If there is a man who takes his brother’s H251 wife, it is an [fn]impure act; he has uncovered his brother’s H251 nakedness. They will be childless.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:2 - except for his [fn]blood relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother H251,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:10 -

‘And the priest who is the highest among his brothers H251, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and [fn]who has been ordained to wear the garments, shall not [fn]uncover his head nor tear his clothes;

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - ‘If you make a sale, moreover, to your companion or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not mistreat one another H251.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 -

‘If a brother H251 of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his possession of land, then his nearest kinsman redeemer is to come and redeem what his brother H251 has sold.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35 -

‘Now if a brother H251 of yours becomes poor and his [fn]means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a sojourner or a foreign resident, that he may live with you.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:36 - ‘Do not take [fn]usurious interest from him, but fear your God, that your brother H251 may live with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39 -

‘If a brother H251 of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46 - ‘You may even give them as an inheritance to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your brothers H251, the sons of Israel, you shall not have dominion over one another H251 with brutality.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 -

‘Now if the [fn]means of a sojourner or of a foreign resident with you becomes sufficient, and a brother H251 of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a sojourner who resides with you or to the descendants of a sojourner’s family,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:48 - then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers H251 may redeem him,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:37 - ‘They will therefore stumble over each other H251 as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength [fn]to stand up before your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - ‘He shall not defile himself for his father or for his mother, for his brother H251 or for his sister, when they die, because the Nazirite vow to his God is on his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - “They may, however, minister to their brothers H251 in the tent of meeting in order to keep up their responsibility, but they themselves shall perform no service. Thus you shall deal with the Levites concerning their responsibilities.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:4 - So they said to one another H251, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:10 - and that He has brought you near, Korah, and all your brothers H251, sons of Levi, with you? And are you seeking for the priesthood also?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:2 - “But bring near with you also your brothers H251, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be joined with you and minister to you, while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:6 - “And behold, I Myself have taken your brothers H251 the Levites from among the sons of Israel; they are a gift to you, given to Yahweh, to perform the service for the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:3 - The people thus contended with Moses and spoke, saying, “If only we had breathed our last when our brothers H251 breathed their last before Yahweh!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:8 - “Take the rod; and you and your brother H251 Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. You shall thus bring forth water for them out of the rock and let the congregation and their beasts drink.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:14 -

From Kadesh Moses then sent messengers to the king of Edom: “Thus your brother H251 Israel has said, ‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:6 -

Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought near to his brothers H251 a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting.


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