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

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16 -

“Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers H251, and judge righteously between a man and his brother H251 or the sojourner who is with him.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - ‘Where can we go up? Our brothers H251 have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified to heaven. And moreover, we saw the sons of the Anakim there.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:4 - and command the people, saying, “You are going to pass through the territory of your brothers H251 the sons of Esau who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 -

“So we passed beyond our brothers H251 the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18 -

“Then I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it; all you men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers H251, the sons of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:20 - until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers H251 as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God will give them beyond the Jordan. Then you may return, every man to his possession which I have given you.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - Therefore, Levi does not have a portion or inheritance with his brothers H251; Yahweh is his inheritance, just as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 -

“If your brother H251, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife [fn]you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:2 - “And this is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother H251 because the remission from Yahweh has been proclaimed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - “From a foreigner you may exact it, but your hand shall release whatever of yours is with your brother H251.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:7 -

“If there is a needy one among you, one of your brothers H251, in any of your gates of the towns in your land which Yahweh your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart nor close your hand from your needy brother H251;

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - “Beware lest there be a vile [fn]thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of the remission of debts, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your needy brother H251, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to Yahweh against you, and it will be a sin in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:11 - “For the needy will never cease to be [fn]in the land; therefore I am commanding you, saying, ‘You shall freely open your hand to your brother H251, to your afflicted and needy in your land.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 -

“If your brother H251, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall [fn]let him go to be free from you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - you shall surely set a king over you whom Yahweh your God chooses, one from among your brothers H251 you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your brother H251.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers H251 and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - “And they shall have no inheritance among their brothers H251; Yahweh is their inheritance, as He [fn]promised them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:7 - then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God like all his brothers H251 the Levites who stand there before Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:15 -

“Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers H251; you shall listen to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:18 - ‘I will raise up a prophet from among their brothers H251 like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:18 - “And the judges shall inquire thoroughly, and behold, if the witness is a false witness and he has [fn]accused his brother H251 falsely,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:19 - then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother H251. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:8 - “Then the officers shall speak further to the people and say, ‘Who is the man that is afraid and whose heart is faint? Let him go and return to his house, so that [fn]he might not make his brothers’ H251 hearts melt like his heart.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:1 -

“You shall not see your brother’s H251 ox or his sheep straying away and [fn]ignore them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother H251.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:2 - “And if your brother H251 is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother H251 searches for it; then you shall give it back to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:3 - “Thus you shall do with his donkey, and you shall do likewise with his garment, and you shall do likewise with anything lost by your brother H251, which he has lost and you have found. You are not allowed to [fn]ignore them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:4 - “You shall not see your brother’s H251 donkey or his ox fallen down on the way and [fn]ignore them; you shall certainly help him to raise them up.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7 -

“You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother H251; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a sojourner in his land.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:19 -

“You shall not charge interest to your brother H251: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - “You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your brother H251 you shall not charge interest, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all [fn]that you send forth your hand to do in the land which you are about to enter to [fn]possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 -

“If a man is [fn]caught kidnapping any of his brothers H251 of the sons of Israel, and he mistreats him or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 -

“You shall not oppress a hired person who is afflicted and needy, whether he is one of your brothers H251 or one of your sojourners who is in your land within your gates.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - “He may strike him forty times but no more, lest he strike him with many more stripes than these and your brother H251 be dishonored in your eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5 -

“If brothers H251 live together and one of them dies and has no son, then the wife of the one who died shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:6 - “And it will be that the firstborn whom she bears shall [fn]assume the name of his dead brother H251, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - “But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name for his brother H251 in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:9 - then his brother’s H251 wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s H251 house.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 -

“If two men, a man and his brother H251, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and she puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54 - “The man who is [fn]refined and very delicate among you [fn]shall be hostile toward his brother H251 and toward the wife [fn]he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:50 - “Then die on the mountain where you ascend, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother H251 died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:9 -

Who said of his father and his mother,

‘I did not consider them’;

And he did not recognize his brothers H251,

Nor did he know his own sons,

For they kept Your word,

And they observed Your covenant.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:16 -

And with the choice things of the earth and its fullness,

And the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush.

Let it come to the head of Joseph,

And to the top of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers H251.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:24 -

Of Asher he said,

“More blessed than sons is Asher;

May he be favored by his brothers H251,

And may he dip his foot in oil.

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