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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

H269

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

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 4:22–2Sa 13:6)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:22 - And Zillah she also bare Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron; and a sister of Tubal-Cain is Naamah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:13 - say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, so that it is well with me because of thee, and my soul hath lived for thy sake.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19 - Why hast thou said, She is my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? and now, lo, thy wife, take and go.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - and Abraham saith concerning Sarah his wife, 'She is my sister;' and Abimelech king of Gerar sendeth and taketh Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5 - hath not he himself said to me, She is my sister! and she, even she herself, said, He is my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocency of my hands, I have done this.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12 - and also, truly she is my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becometh my wife;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30 - yea, it cometh to pass, when he seeth the ring, and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heareth the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, 'Thus hath the man spoken unto me,' that he cometh in unto the man, and lo, he is standing by the camels by the fountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:59

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - And they send away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:60

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - and they bless Rebekah, and say to her, 'Thou art our sister; become thou thousands of myriads, and thy seed doth possess the gate of those hating it.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - and men of the place ask him of his wife, and he saith, 'She is my sister:' for he hath been afraid to say, 'My wife -- lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, for she is of good appearance.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - And Abimelech calleth for Isaac, and saith, 'Lo, she is surely thy wife; and how hast thou said, She is my sister?' and Isaac saith unto him, 'Because I said, Lest I die for her.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - and Esau goeth unto Ishmael, and taketh Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, sister of Nebajoth, unto his wives, to himself, for a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - And it cometh to pass, when Laban heareth the report of Jacob his sister's son, that he runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and kisseth him, and bringeth him in unto his house; and he recounteth to Laban all these things,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, 'Give me sons, and if there is none -- I die.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:8 - and Rachel saith, 'With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, yea, I have prevailed;' and she calleth his name Napthali.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 - And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled Dinah their sister),

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:14 - and say unto them, 'We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to one who hath a foreskin: for it is a reproach to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - Jacob's sons have come in upon the wounded, and they spoil the city, because they had defiled their sister;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31 - And they say, 'As a harlot doth he make our sister?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:3 - and Bashemath daughter of Ishmael, sister of Nebajoth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:22 - And the sons of Lotan are Hori and Heman; and a sister of Lotan is Timna.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:17 - And sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:4 - and his sister stationeth herself afar off, to know what is done to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:7 - And his sister saith unto the daughter of Pharaoh, 'Do I go? when I have called for thee a suckling woman of the Hebrews, then she doth suckle the lad for thee;'

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:23 - And Aaron taketh Elisheba daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to himself for a wife, and she beareth to him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:20 - And Miriam the inspired one, sister of Aaron, taketh the timbrel in her hand, and all the women go out after her, with timbrels and with choruses;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:3 - five of the curtains are joining one unto another, and five curtains are joining one to another.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:5 - fifty loops thou dost make in the one curtain, and fifty loops thou dost make in the edge of the curtain which is in the joining of the second, causing the loops to take hold one unto another;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:6 - and thou hast made fifty hooks of gold, and hast joined the curtains one to another by the hooks, and the tabernacle hath been one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:17 - two handles are to the one board, joined one unto another; so thou dost make for all the boards of the tabernacle;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - 'The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home or born without; thou dost not uncover their nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:11 - 'The nakedness of a daughter of thy father's wife, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:12 - 'The nakedness of a sister of thy father thou dost not uncover; she is a relation of thy father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:13 - 'The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou dost not uncover; for she is thy mother's relation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:18 - 'And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17 - 'And a man who taketh his sister, a daughter of his father or daughter of his mother, and he hath seen her nakedness, and she seeth his nakedness: it is a shame; and they have been cut off before the eyes of the sons of their people; the nakedness of his sister he hath uncovered; his iniquity he beareth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19 - 'And the nakedness of thy mother's sister, and of thy father's sister, thou dost not uncover; because his relation he hath made bare; their iniquity they bear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - and for his sister, the virgin, who is near unto him, who hath not been to a man; for her he is defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister -- he is not unclean for them at their death, for the separation of his God is on his head;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:18 - for they are adversaries to you with their frauds, with which they have acted fraudulently to you, concerning the matter of Peor, and concerning the matter of Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who is smitten in the day of the plague for the matter of Peor.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:59 - and the name of Amram's wife is Jochebed, daughter of Levi, whom one hath born to Levi in Egypt; and she beareth to Amram Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22 - 'Cursed is he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:13 - and have kept alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and have delivered our souls from death.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - and her father saith, I certainly said, that thou didst certainly hate her, and I give her to thy companion; is not her sister -- the young one -- better than she? Let her be, I pray thee, to thee, instead of her.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:1 - And it cometh to pass afterwards that Absalom son of David hath a fair sister, and her name is Tamar, and Amnon son of David loveth her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:2 - And Amnon hath distress -- even to become sick, because of Tamar his sister, for she is a virgin, and it is hard in the eyes of Amnon to do anything to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:4 - and saith to him, 'Wherefore art thou thus lean, O king's son, morning by morning? dost thou not declare to me?' And Amnon saith to him, 'Tamar -- sister of Absalom my brother -- I am loving.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - And Jonadab saith to him, 'Lie down on thy couch, and feign thyself sick, and thy father hath come in to see thee, and thou hast said unto him, 'Let, I pray thee, Tamar my sister come in and give me bread to eat; and she hath made the food before mine eyes so that I see it, and have eaten from her hand.'

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:6 - And Amnon lieth down, and feigneth himself sick, and the king cometh in to see him, and Amnon saith unto the king, 'Let, I pray thee, Tamar my sister come, and she maketh before mine eyes two cakes, and I eat from her hand.'

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