Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H251

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Original: אח

Transliteration: ach ('âch)

Phonetic: awkh

BDB Definition:

brother
1. brother of same parents
2. half-brother (same father)
3. relative, kinship, same tribe
4. each to the other (reciprocal relationship)
5. (figuratively) of resemblance

Origin: a primitive word

TWOT entry: 62a

Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

Strong's Definition: 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-" .

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (628x)

A Brother (1x)

Above His Brethren (2x)

Above Thy Brethren (1x)

Against Another (1x)

Against His Brother (3x)

Against Their Brethren (1x)

Against Thy Brother (2x)

Against Your Brethren (2x)

All His Brethren (3x)

All The Brethren (1x)

All Your Brethren (2x)

Also To Her Brother (1x)

Also Your Brother (1x)

Also, As His Brethren (1x)

Among Brethren (1x)

Among His Brethren (3x)

And A Brother (1x)

And All His Brethren (2x)

And All Their Brethren (1x)

And All Thy Brethren (1x)

And Brethren (3x)

And Brother (1x)

And For His Brother (1x)

And For Their Brethren (1x)

And He Had Brethren (1x)

And Her Brethren (1x)

And Her Brother (1x)

And His Brethren (59x)

And His Brother (3x)

And His Brother’s (3x)

And If He Have No Brethren (1x)

And If Thy Brother (3x)

And Is Become My Brother’s (1x)

And It Shall Be With Thee Until Thy Brother (1x)

And Like Your Brethren (1x)

And My Brethren (2x)

And My Brother (1x)

And Of His Brethren (2x)

And Of Their Brethren (1x)

And Their Brethren (17x)

And Thy Brethren (5x)

And Thy Brother (1x)

And To His Brethren (1x)

And Unto Her Brethren (1x)

And Upon His Brother (1x)

And When His Brethren (2x)

And With Them Their Brethren (1x)

Another (5x)

As All His Brethren (1x)

As Another (1x)

As His Brother (1x)

As My Brother (1x)

As Well As Another (1x)

Before My Brethren (1x)

Between Your Brethren (1x)

Brethren (19x)

Brother (35x)

Brother’s (4x)

But His Brethren (1x)

But Let Your Brethren (1x)

But Over Your Brethren (1x)

But Unto Thy Brother (1x)

By From Our Brethren (1x)

Come Upon You, And Upon Your Brethren (1x)

Concerning Our Brother (1x)

Do Not Thy Brethren (1x)

Except Your Brother (1x)

For Brethren (1x)

For Brother (1x)

For Even Thy Brethren (1x)

For Every Brother (1x)

For His Brother (1x)

For My Brethren (1x)

For Thee, My Brother (1x)

For Their Brethren (2x)

For Your Brethren (1x)

From His Brethren (3x)

From The Other (1x)

From Thy Brother (1x)

Had A Brother (1x)

Have No Brethren (1x)

He And His Brethren (1x)

He Took His Brother (1x)

He, And His Brethren (1x)

Her Brother (2x)

Him More Than All His Brethren (1x)

Him, Nay, My Brother (1x)

His Brethren (16x)

His Brother (43x)

His Brother’s (4x)

How Thy Brethren (1x)

I Am A Brother (1x)

I And My Brethren (1x)

I My Brother’s (1x)

I Pray You, Brethren (1x)

If Brethren (1x)

If Not, I Pray Thee, Let My Brother (1x)

If Thy Brother (3x)

In Her Brother (1x)

100

Into Thy Brother’s (1x)

101

Is Brother (1x)

102

It His Brethren (1x)

103

Lest His Brethren’s (1x)

104

Me, My Brethren (1x)

105

Me, My Brother (1x)

106

My Brethren (9x)

107

My Brother (15x)

108

Nevertheless My Brethren (1x)

109

Nor Brother (1x)

110

Not The Brotherly (1x)

111

Not Thy Brother (1x)

112

Not With His Brethren (1x)

113

Now For Thy Brethren (1x)

114

Now To Thy Brother (1x)

115

Of All His Brethren (2x)

116

Of His Brethren (7x)

117

Of His Brother (9x)

118

Of My Brethren (1x)

119

Of My Brother (2x)

120

Of Our Brethren (1x)

121

Of The Brethren (2x)

122

Of Thee, Of Thy Brethren (1x)

123

Of Their Brethren (6x)

124

Of Them, With Their Brethren (1x)

125

Of Thy Brethren (4x)

126

Of Thy Brother (1x)

127

Of Thy Brother’s (3x)

128

Of Your Brethren (6x)

129

One Of His Brethren (1x)

130

Or A Brother (1x)

131

Or Of His Brother (1x)

132

Or Their Brethren (1x)

133

Our Brethren (4x)

134

Our Brother (6x)

135

Over Against Their Brethren (1x)

136

Over Another (1x)

137

Over Thy Brethren (1x)

138

Shall Be Against His Brother (1x)

139

Shall He Be Unto His Brethren (1x)

140

Shall Your Brethren (1x)

141

So Neither I, Nor My Brethren (1x)

142

Than A Brother (2x)

143

Than His Brethren (1x)

144

That His Brethren (1x)

145

That His Brother (1x)

146

That I Gave My Brother (1x)

147

That Thy Brother (1x)

148

That Which His Brother (1x)

149

That, Behold, His Brother (1x)

150

The Brethren (4x)

151

The Brother (15x)

152

The Kindred (1x)

153

The Like (1x)

154

Their Brethren (16x)

155

Their Brother (3x)

156

Then His Brethren (1x)

157

Then Thy Brother (1x)

158

There Unto Him All His Brethren (1x)

159

Thy Brethren (5x)

160

Thy Brother (26x)

161

Thy Brother’s (5x)

162

To Another (10x)

163

To Her Brother (1x)

164

To His Brethren (3x)

165

To His Brother (7x)

166

To Their Brethren (2x)

167

To Thy Brethren (1x)

168

To Thy Brother (3x)

169

To You Of Your Brethren (1x)

170

Toward Another (1x)

171

Toward His Brother (1x)

172

Until Thy Brother’s (1x)

173

Unto Him, Behold, Thy Brother (1x)

174

Unto Him, My Brethren (1x)

175

Unto His Brethren (14x)

176

Unto His Brother (2x)

177

Unto His Brother’s (1x)

178

Unto My Brethren (3x)

179

Unto Our Brethren (1x)

180

Unto Their Brethren (3x)

181

Unto Them, My Brethren (1x)

182

Unto Thy Brethren (1x)

183

Unto Thy Brother (3x)

184

Unto Thy Brother’s (1x)

185

Unto Your Brethren (2x)

186

Upon Another (1x)

187

Upon His Brother (2x)

188

When Our Brethren (1x)

189

Wherefore Their Brethren (1x)

190

Whether Ye Had Yet A Brother (1x)

191

Which Is Thine With Thy Brother (1x)

192

Who With His Brethren (1x)

193

Whom Thy Brethren (1x)

194

Whose Brethren (1x)

195

Why Have Our Brethren (1x)

196

With Another (2x)

197

With His Brethren (6x)

198

With The Brethren (1x)

199

With Their Brethren (5x)

200

With Thy Brethren (1x)

201

With You; For His Brother (1x)

202

With Your Brethren (1x)

203

Ye And Your Brethren (1x)

204

Ye Not In Any Brother (1x)

205

Ye Unto Your Brethren (1x)

206

You Your Brother (1x)

207

Your Brethren (10x)

208

Your Brother (5x)

Occurrences of "Brother"

Genesis 9:5

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

Genesis 14:13

And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.(c)

Genesis 22:23

And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.(e)

Genesis 24:15

And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

Genesis 28:2

Arise, go to Padan–aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.

Genesis 29:10

And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

Genesis 29:12

And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son: and she ran and told her father.

Genesis 42:4

But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

Genesis 42:15

Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

Genesis 42:20

But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

Genesis 42:34

And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.

Genesis 43:7

And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?(b)

(c)

(d)

Genesis 43:14

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.(f)

Genesis 43:29

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.

Genesis 44:23

And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

Genesis 44:26

And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us.

Genesis 48:19

And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.(d)

Leviticus 18:14

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.

Deuteronomy 15:7

If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

Deuteronomy 15:9

Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.(c)

(d)

Judges 1:13

And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

Judges 3:9

And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord , the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.(b)

1 Samuel 14:3

And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I–chabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.(b)

1 Samuel 17:28

And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

1 Samuel 26:6

Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

2 Samuel 13:3

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.

2 Samuel 13:32

And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.(n)

(o)

2 Samuel 18:2

And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.

1 Kings 2:22

And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

1 Chronicles 20:7

But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him.(j)

(k)

Psalm 35:14

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.(g)

(h)

Malachi 1:2

I have loved you, saith the Lord . Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord : yet I loved Jacob,

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H251

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

Thayers Information

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H251