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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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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 2 / 12 (Gen 29:4–Gen 42:8)

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Jacob said to them, “My brothers H251, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Haran.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of his mother’s brother H251 Laban, and the sheep of his mother’s brother H251 Laban, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of his mother’s brother H251 Laban.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - Jacob told Rachel that he was a relative H251 of her father and that he was Rebekah’s son, and she ran and told her father.

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Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative H251, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:23 - he took his kinsmen H251 with him and pursued him a distance of seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

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And Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen H251 camped in the hill country of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - “The one with whom you find your gods shall not live; in the presence of our relatives H251 [fn]point out what is yours [fn]among my belongings and take it for yourself.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:37 - “Though you have searched through all my property, what have you found of all your household property? Set it here in front of my relatives H251 and your relatives H251, so that they may decide between the two of us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - Jacob said to his relatives H251, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:54 - Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his relatives H251 to [fn]the meal; and they ate [fn]the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

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Then Jacob sent messengers ahead of himself to his brother H251 Esau in the land of Seir, the [fn]country of Edom.

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And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother H251 Esau, and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:11 - “Save me, please, from the hand of my brother H251, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and [fn]attack me and the mothers with the children.

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So he spent the night there. Then he [fn]selected from what [fn]he had with him a gift for his brother H251 Esau:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:17 - And he commanded the [fn]one in front, saying, “When my brother H251 Esau meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:3 - But he himself passed on ahead of them and bowed down to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother H251.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:9 - But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother H251; let what you have be your own.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:11 - Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers H251, “Let me find favor in your sight, and I will give whatever you tell me.

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Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons—Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers H251—each took his sword and came upon the city undetected, and killed every male.

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Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled [fn]from your brother H251 Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:7 - Then he built an altar there, and called the place [fn]El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled [fn]from his brother H251.

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Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all [fn]his household, and his livestock and all his cattle, and all his property which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land away from his brother H251 Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the records of the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, when he was seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers H251, while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:4 - And his brothers H251 saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers H251; and so they hated him and could not speak to him [fn]on friendly terms.

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Then Joseph [fn]had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers H251, they hated him even more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:8 - Then his brothers H251 said to him, “Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

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Then he [fn]had yet another dream, and informed his brothers H251 of it, and said, “Behold, I have [fn]had yet another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - He also told it to his father as well as to his brothers H251; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have [fn]had? Am I and your mother and your brothers H251 actually going to come to bow down to the ground before you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:11 - And his brothers H251 were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

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Then his brothers H251 went to pasture their father’s flock in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - And Israel said to Joseph, “Are your brothers H251 not pasturing the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “[fn]I will go.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - Then he said to him, “Go now and see about the welfare of your brothers H251 and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:16 - He said, “I am looking for my brothers H251; please tell me where they are pasturing the flock.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:17 - Then the man said, “They have moved from here; for I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers H251 and found them at Dothan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:19 - They said to one another H251, “[fn]Here comes this dreamer!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:23 - So it came about, when Joseph [fn]reached his brothers H251, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the [fn]multicolored tunic that was on him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:26 - And Judah said to his brothers H251, “What profit is it for us to kill our brother H251 and cover up his blood?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:27 - “Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother H251, our own flesh.” And his brothers H251 listened to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:30 - He returned to his brothers H251 and said, “The boy is not there; as for me, where am I to go?”

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And it came about at that time, that Judah [fn]departed from his brothers H251 and [fn]visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:8 - Then Judah said to Onan, “Have relations with your brother’s H251 wife and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up a [fn]child for your brother H251.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:9 - Now Onan knew that the [fn]child would not be his; so when he had relations with his brother’s H251 wife, he [fn]wasted his seed on the ground so that he would not give [fn]a child to his brother H251.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up”; for he [fn]thought, “I am afraid that he too may die like his brothers H251.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:29 - But it came about as he drew back his hand that behold, his brother H251 came out. Then she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” So he was named [fn]Perez.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:30 - Afterward his brother H251 came out who had the scarlet thread on his hand; and he was named [fn]Zerah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:3 - So ten of Joseph’s brothers H251 went down to buy grain from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:4 - But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother H251 Benjamin with his brothers H251, for he said, “I am afraid that harm may happen to him.”

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Now Joseph was the ruler over the land; he was the one who sold grain to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers H251 came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:7 - When Joseph saw his brothers H251, he recognized them, but he disguised himself to them and spoke to them harshly. He said to them, “Where have you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”

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But Joseph had recognized his brothers H251, although they did not recognize him.


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