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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 1 / 12 (Gen 4:2–Gen 28:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:8 - Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.”[fn] While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:9 - Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:11 - Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:21 - His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5 - And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:22 - Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25 - he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:21 - Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was[fn] Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:25 - Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg,[fn] because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother[fn] of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:16 - He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:12 - He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward[fn] all his brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:7 - and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5 - Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and didn’t she also say, ‘He is my brother’? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - To Sarah he said, “I am giving your brother a thousand shekels[fn] of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:20 - Some time later Abraham was told, “Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:21 - Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:23 - Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:27 - saying, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:29 - Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man at the spring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:48 - and I bowed down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:53 - Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the young woman remain with us ten days or so; then you[fn] may go.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18 - His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward[fn] all the tribes related to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob.[fn] Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:31 - Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:23 - He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to bless him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29 - May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:30 - After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:35 - But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40 - You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:44

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:44 - Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Go at once to Paddan Aram,[fn] to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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