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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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

H269

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Strong's Number H269 matches the Hebrew אָחוֹת ('āḥôṯ),
which occurs 24 times in 23 verses in 'Gen' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:22 - As for Zillah, she also [fn]gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister H269 of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:13 - “Please say that you are my sister H269 so that it may go well with me because of you, and that [fn]I may live on account of you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19 - “Why did you say, ‘She is my sister H269,’ so that I took her for myself as a wife? So now, [fn]here is your wife, take her and go.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister H269.” So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5 - “Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister H269’? And she herself also said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my [fn]hands I have done this.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12 - “Besides, she actually is my sister H269, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30 - Now it happened, when he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s H269 [fn]wrists, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister H269, saying, “[fn]This is what the man said to me,” he came out to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - Thus they sent away their sister H269 Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham’s servant and his men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,

“May you, our sister H269,

Become thousands of ten thousands,

And may your seed possess

The gate of those who hate him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the [fn]Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister H269 of Laban the [fn]Aramean, to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - Then the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, “She is my sister H269,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is beautiful in appearance.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife! How then did you say, ‘She is my sister H269’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - and Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister H269 of Nebaioth, to be his wife, besides the wives that he had.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 -

So it happened that when Laban heard the report of Jacob his sister’s H269 son, he ran to meet him, and he embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he recounted to Laban all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 -

Then Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, so [fn]she became jealous of her sister H269; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:8 - So Rachel said, “With [fn]mighty wrestlings I have [fn]wrestled with my sister H269, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 -

But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, and thus they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister H269.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:14 - And they said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister H269 to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - Jacob’s sons came upon the slain and plundered the city because they had defiled their sister H269.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31 - But they said, “Should he [fn]treat our sister H269 as a harlot?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:3 - also Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, the sister H269 of Nebaioth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:22 - The sons of Lotan were Hori and [fn]Hemam; and Lotan’s sister H269 was Timna.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:17 - The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and their sister H269 Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
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