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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:

Leviticus 18:16: "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness."
Leviticus 18:16: "wife: it is thy brother's nakedness."
Leviticus 19:17: "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke"
Leviticus 20:21: "a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered"
Leviticus 20:21: "it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless."
Leviticus 21:2: "him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,"
Leviticus 21:10: "And he that is the high priest among his brethren, among his brethren, whose head the anointing"
Leviticus 25:14: "aught of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:"
Leviticus 25:25: "If thy brother be waxen poor, some of his possession, and if any of his kin"
Leviticus 25:25: "and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. that which his brother sold."
Leviticus 25:35: "And if thy brother be waxen poor, with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger,"
Leviticus 25:36: "him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live"
Leviticus 25:39: "And if thy brother that dwelleth by and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:"
Leviticus 25:46: "them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not"
Leviticus 25:46: "of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor."
Leviticus 25:47: "a sojourner or stranger by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself"
Leviticus 25:48: "he may be one of his brethren of his brethren may redeem"
Leviticus 26:37: "And they shall fall one upon another, a sword, when none pursueth:"
Numbers 6:7: "make himself unclean for his father, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration"
Numbers 8:26: "But shall minister with their brethren of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do"
Numbers 14:4: "And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt."
Numbers 16:10: "And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren of Levi with thee: and seek"
Numbers 18:2: "And thy brethren also of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring"
Numbers 18:6: "behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children"
Numbers 20:3: "saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!"
Numbers 20:8: "thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto"
Numbers 20:14: "the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest"
Numbers 25:6: "came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight"
Numbers 27:4: "son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father."
Numbers 27:7: "them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father"
Numbers 27:9: "his inheritance unto his brethren."
Numbers 27:10: "And if he have no brethren, his inheritance unto his father's brethren."
Numbers 27:10: "his inheritance unto his father's brethren."
Numbers 27:11: "And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman"
Numbers 27:13: "thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered."
Numbers 32:6: "and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit"
Numbers 36:2: "the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters."
Deuteronomy 1:16: "saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man"
Deuteronomy 1:16: "righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger"
Deuteronomy 1:28: "Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying,"
Deuteronomy 2:4: "are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir;"
Deuteronomy 2:8: "And when we passed by from our brethren of Esau, which dwelt in Seir,"
Deuteronomy 3:18: "it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war."
Deuteronomy 3:20: "Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess"
Deuteronomy 10:9: "part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according"
Deuteronomy 13:6: "If thy brother, the son or thy son, or thy daughter,"
Deuteronomy 15:2: "shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called"
Deuteronomy 15:3: "is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;"
Deuteronomy 15:7: "there be among you a poor man of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land"
Deuteronomy 15:7: "shut thine hand from thy poor brother: brother:"









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