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Lexicon :: Strong's H269 - 'āḥôṯ

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אָחוֹת
Transliteration
'āḥôṯ
Pronunciation
aw-khoth'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Irregular f of אָח (H251)
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TWOT Reference: 62c

Strong’s Definitions

אָחוֹת ʼâchôwth, aw-khoth'; irregular feminine of H251; a sister (used very widely [like H251 number H250, corrected to H251], literally and figuratively):—(an-) other, sister, together.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 114x

The KJV translates Strong's H269 in the following manner: sister(s) (106x), another (6x), together with (with H802) (1x), other (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 114x
The KJV translates Strong's H269 in the following manner: sister(s) (106x), another (6x), together with (with H802) (1x), other (1x).
  1. sister

    1. sister (same parents)

    2. half-sister (same father)

    3. relative

      1. (metaph) of Israel's and Judah"s relationship

    4. beloved

      1. bride

    5. (fig.) of intimate connection

    6. another

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָחוֹת ʼâchôwth, aw-khoth'; irregular feminine of H251; a sister (used very widely [like H251 number H250, corrected to H251], literally and figuratively):—(an-) other, sister, together.
STRONGS H269: Abbreviations
אָחוֺת 114 noun feminine sister (Phoenician אחת, Aramaic אֲחָת aXtxo, Arabic أُخْتً, Assyrian aḫâtu, Dlw, Ethiopic እኀት፡ Sabean in proper name א־חתאמהו OsZMG 1865, 273) — absolute אָ׳ 2 Samuel 13:1 + (never with article); construct אֲחוֺת Genesis 4:22 +; suffix אֲחֹתִי (אֲחוֺתִי) Genesis 12:13 +, etc.; plural suffix אַחְוֺתַי (Qr אַחְיוֺתַי) Joshua 2:13; אֲחוֺתַיִח Ezekiel 16:51 (Qr; Kt אחותך) + 2 times (Co all אחיו׳); אַחֲיוֺתֵח Ezekiel 16:52 (Co ־תיך); אֲחוֺתֵח Ezekiel 16:52 (must be plural, but strike out Co); אַחְיֹתָיו Job 42:11; אֲחוֺתֵיכֶם Hosea 2:3; אַחְיֹתֵיהֶם 1 Chronicles 2:16; Job 1:4
1. sister Genesis 4:22; Genesis 12:13, 19; Genesis 20:2, 5, 12 (same father, different mother) so Leviticus 18:11 compare Ezekiel 22:11; Genesis 24:30 (twice in verse) +, Exodus 2:4, 7; Leviticus 18:9 (either parent same) so Deuteronomy 27:22; Numbers 6:7; 2 Samuel 13:1, 2, 4 +, Songs 8:8 (twice in verse); called upon, in mourning for dead Jeremiah 22:18;=near relative Genesis 24:59, 60 (or because Laban prominent ? so Di); man of same nationality Numbers 25:18 compare Hosea 2:3.
2.=beloved Songs 4:9, 10, 12; Songs 5:12 (4 times || כַּלָּה bride; phrase originally implying that marriage with half-sister — of same father — was allowed? compare NöZMG 1886, 150, & Genesis 20:12).
3. symbolic of Judah, Samaria, Sodom & Jerusalem Jeremiah 3:7, 8, 10; Ezekiel 16:45, 52 (twice in verse) (strike out Co) +, Ezekiel 23:4, 11 +.
4. figurative of intimate connectionאִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָרִמָּה ⬩⬩⬩ קָרָאתִי Job 17:14; אֱמֹר לַחָכְמָה אֲחֹתִי אַתְּ Proverbs 7:4.
† 5. another, אִשָּׁה אֶל־אֲחֹתָהּ, of curtains of tabernacle Exodus 26:3 (twice in verse); Exodus 26:6; loops Exodus 26:5, tenons Exodus 26:17; of wings of living creatures, Ezekiel's vision Ezekiel 1:9, 23; Ezekiel 3:13; not of persons, but see רְעוּת.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:22; 4:22; 12:13; 12:13; 12:19; 20:2; 20:5; 20:12; 20:12; 24:30; 24:59; 24:60

Exodus

2:4; 2:7; 26:3; 26:5; 26:6; 26:17

Leviticus

18:9; 18:11

Numbers

6:7; 25:18

Deuteronomy

27:22

Joshua

2:13

2 Samuel

13:1; 13:1; 13:2; 13:4

1 Chronicles

2:16

Job

1:4; 17:14; 42:11

Proverbs

7:4

Song of Songs

4:9; 4:10; 4:12; 5:12; 8:8

Jeremiah

3:7; 3:8; 3:10; 22:18

Ezekiel

1:9; 1:23; 3:13; 16:45; 16:51; 16:52; 16:52; 16:52; 22:11; 23:4; 23:11

Hosea

2:3; 2:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H269 matches the Hebrew אָחוֹת ('āḥôṯ),
which occurs 119 times in 104 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (2Sa 13:11–Eze 23:31)

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:11 - Then she brought them near to him to eat, but he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister H269.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:20 -

So Absalom her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now keep silent, my sister H269, he is your brother; do not take this matter to heart.” So Tamar remained and was desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:22 - But Absalom did not speak to Amnon either good or bad; for Absalom hated Amnon because he had violated his sister H269 Tamar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32 - But Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered and said, “Do not let my lord [fn]suppose they have put to death all the young men, the king’s sons, for Amnon alone has died; because by the [fn]intent of Absalom this has been set since the day that he violated his sister H269 Tamar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:25 - And Absalom set Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was [fn]Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister H269 of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:19 - And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh. So he gave him as a wife the sister H269 of his own wife, the sister H269 of Tahpenes the queen.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:20 - And the sister H269 of Tahpenes bore his son Genubath. And Tahpenes weaned him in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:2 - But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister H269 of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:39 -

The sons of Lotan were Hori and [fn]Homam; and Lotan’s sister H269 was Timna.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:16 -

and their sisters H269 were Zeruiah and Abigail.

And the three sons of Zeruiah were [fn]Abshai, Joab, and Asahel.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:9 -

All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister H269.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 3:19 -

The sons of Pedaiah were Zerubbabel and Shimei.

And the [fn]sons of Zerubbabel were Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister H269;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:3 -

These were the [fn]sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister H269 was Hazzelelponi.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:19 -

The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister H269 of Naham, were the [fn]fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:15 - Now Machir took a wife for Huppim and Shuppim, [fn]whose sister’s H269 name was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:18 - And his sister H269 Hammolecheth bore Ishhod and [fn]Abiezer and Mahlah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:30 -

The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister H269.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:32 -

Heber [fn]became the father of Japhlet, [fn]Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister H269.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:11 - But Jehoshabeath the king’s daughter took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and put him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister H269 of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so she did not put him to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:4 - His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters H269 to eat and drink with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:14 -

If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;

To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister H269’;

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:11 - Then all his brothers and all his sisters H269 and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the calamity that Yahweh had brought on him. And each one gave him one [fn]qesitah, and each a ring of gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:4 -

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister H269,”

And call understanding your intimate friend;

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:9 -

“You have made my heart beat faster, my sister H269, my bride;

You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes,

With a single strand of your necklace.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:10 -

“How beautiful is your love, my sister H269, my bride!

How much better is your love than wine,

And the fragrance of your oils

Than all kinds of [fn]spices!

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:12 -

“A garden locked is my sister H269, my bride,

A [fn]rock garden locked, a spring sealed up.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 -

[fn]I have come into my garden, my sister H269, my bride;

I have picked my myrrh along with my balsam.

I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;

I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Eat, friends;

Drink and [fn]imbibe deeply, O lovers.”

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:2 -

[fn]I was asleep, but my heart was awake.

A voice! My beloved was knocking:

‘Open to me, my sister H269, my darling,

My dove, my perfect one!

For my head is full of dew,

My locks with the [fn]damp of the night.’

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:8 -

[fn]We have a little sister H269,

And she has no breasts;

What shall we do for our sister H269

On the day when she is spoken for?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:7 - “I said, ‘After she has done all these things, she will return to Me’; but she did not return, and her treacherous sister H269 Judah saw it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:8 - “And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet her treacherous sister H269 Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:10 - “Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister H269 Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in lying,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 -

Therefore thus says Yahweh in regard to Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,

“They will not lament for him:

‘Alas, my brother!’ or, ‘Alas, sister H269!’

They will not lament for him:

‘Alas for the master!’ or, ‘Alas for his splendor!’

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:9 - their wings touched one another H269; their faces did not turn as they went; each went straight forward.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:23 - And underneath the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other H269; each one also had two wings covering its body on the one side and on the other.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:13 - And I heard the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another H269 and the sound of the wheels beside them, even a great rumbling sound.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:45 - “You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister H269 of your sisters H269, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:46 - “Now your older sister H269 is Samaria, who lives [fn]north of you with her [fn]daughters; and your younger sister H269, who lives [fn]south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:48 - “As I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister H269 and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:49 - “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister H269 Sodom: she and her daughters had lofty pride, abundant food, and quiet ease, but she did not strengthen the hand of the afflicted and needy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:51 - “Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. Thus you have made your sisters H269 appear righteous by all your abominations which you have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:52 - “Also bear your dishonor in that you have [fn]made judgment favorable for your sisters H269. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your dishonor, in that you made your sisters H269 appear righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:55 - “Your sisters H269, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, [fn]will return to their former state, and you with your daughters will also return to your former state.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:56 - “As the name of your sister H269 Sodom was not heard in your mouth in your day of lofty pride,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:61 - “Then you will remember your ways and feel dishonor when you receive your sisters H269, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:11 - “One has also done what is an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has violated his sister H269, his father’s daughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:4 - “Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister H269. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 -

“Now her sister H269 Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister H269.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - “And she uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then My soul became disgusted with her, as My soul had become disgusted with her sister H269.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:31 - ‘You have walked in the way of your sister H269; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’

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