Strong's #251: 'ach (pronounced awkh)
a primitive word; a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 1)):--another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with "Ah-" or "Ahi-".
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âch
1) brother
1a) brother of same parents
1b) half-brother (same father)
1c) relative, kinship, same tribe
1d) each to the other (reciprocal relationship)
1e) (figuratively) of resemblance
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: a primitive word
Usage:
This word is used 629 times:
Jeremiah 34:17: "me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim"
Jeremiah 35:3: "of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house"
Jeremiah 41:8: "and slew them not among their brethren."
Jeremiah 49:10: "to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbors, and he is not."
Ezekiel 4:17: "and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity."
Ezekiel 11:15: "Son of man, thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house"
Ezekiel 11:15: "Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house"
Ezekiel 18:10: "of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these"
Ezekiel 18:18: "because he cruelly oppressed, his brother by violence, and did that which"
Ezekiel 24:23: "and mourn one toward another."
Ezekiel 33:30: "another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear"
Ezekiel 38:21: "every man's sword shall be against his brother."
Ezekiel 44:25: "for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had"
Ezekiel 47:14: "And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: I lifted up mine hand to give"
Hosea 2:1: "Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; Ruhamah."
Hosea 12:3: "He took his brother by the heel He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength with God:"
Hosea 13:15: "he be fruitful his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD"
Joel 2:8: "Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall"
Amos 1:9: "to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:"
Amos 1:11: "turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger"
Obadiah 1:10: "For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever."
Obadiah 1:12: "But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced"
Micah 5:3: "that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel."
Micah 7:2: "they hunt every man his brother with a net."
Haggai 2:22: "shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother."
Zechariah 7:9: "and compassions every man to his brother:"
Zechariah 7:10: "and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart."
Malachi 1:2: "us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved"
Malachi 2:10: "us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?"
