Strong's #269: 'achowth (pronounced aw-khoth')
irregular feminine of 251; a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively):--(an-)other, sister, together.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âchôth
1) sister
1a) sister (same parents)
1b) half-sister (same father)
1c) relative
1c1) (metaphorically) of Israel' s and Judah' s relationship
1d) beloved
1d1) bride
1e) (figuratively) of intimate connection
1f) another
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: irregular feminine of H251
Usage:
This word is used 114 times:
Genesis 4:22: "artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah."
Genesis 12:13: "Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul"
Genesis 12:19: "Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold"
Genesis 20:2: "Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent,"
Genesis 20:5: "he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said,"
Genesis 20:12: "And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not"
Genesis 24:30: "the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words"
Genesis 24:30: "the words his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man"
Genesis 24:59: "And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men."
Genesis 24:60: "Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed"
Genesis 25:20: "of Bethuel of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian."
Genesis 26:7: "him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife;"
Genesis 26:9: "and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because"
Genesis 28:9: "of Ishmael son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife."
Genesis 29:13: "the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced"
Genesis 30:1: "she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto"
Genesis 30:8: "wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name"
Genesis 34:13: "he had defiled Dinah their sister:"
Genesis 34:14: "this thing, to give our sister to one that"
Genesis 34:27: "the city, because they had defiled their sister."
Genesis 34:31: "And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?"
Genesis 36:3: "And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth."
Genesis 36:22: "Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna."
Genesis 46:17: "and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber,"
Exodus 2:4: " And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done"
Exodus 2:7: "Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse"
Exodus 6:23: "Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bore him"
Exodus 15:20: "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand;"
Exodus 26:3: "coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one"
Exodus 26:3: "shall be coupled one another."
Exodus 26:5: "may take hold one of another."
Exodus 26:6: "and couple the curtains together together with the tacks: and it shall be"
Exodus 26:17: "set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all"
Leviticus 18:9: "The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born"
Leviticus 18:11: "begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness."
Leviticus 18:12: "uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman."
Leviticus 18:13: "uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman."
Leviticus 18:18: "shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside"
Leviticus 20:17: "a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's"
Leviticus 20:17: "in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity."
Leviticus 20:19: "uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth"
Leviticus 20:19: "of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin:"
Leviticus 21:3: " And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband;"
Numbers 6:7: "for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God"
Numbers 25:18: "the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake."
Numbers 26:59: "Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister."
Deuteronomy 27:22: "Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter"
Joshua 2:13: "my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver"
Judges 15:2: "thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer"
2 Samuel 13:1: "the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon"
