BibleTools

Greek/Hebrew Definitions



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:

Deuteronomy 15:9: "and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him naught; and he cry unto"
Deuteronomy 15:11: "thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy,"
Deuteronomy 15:12: "And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six"
Deuteronomy 17:15: "the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king"
Deuteronomy 17:15: "set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother."
Deuteronomy 17:20: "That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from"
Deuteronomy 18:2: "no inheritance their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said"
Deuteronomy 18:7: "of the LORD as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before"
Deuteronomy 18:15: "will raise up from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto"
Deuteronomy 18:18: "I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words"
Deuteronomy 19:18: "be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;"
Deuteronomy 19:19: "unto him, as he had thought unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among"
Deuteronomy 20:8: "and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart."
Deuteronomy 22:1: "Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep"
Deuteronomy 22:1: "and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother."
Deuteronomy 22:2: "And if thy brother be not unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring"
Deuteronomy 22:2: "thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore"
Deuteronomy 22:3: "with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do"
Deuteronomy 22:4: "Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down"
Deuteronomy 23:7: "an Edomite; he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because"
Deuteronomy 23:19: "Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; of money, usury of victuals, usury"
Deuteronomy 23:20: "Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God"
Deuteronomy 24:7: "be found any of his brethren of his brethren of the children of Israel,"
Deuteronomy 24:14: "a hired servant and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers"
Deuteronomy 25:3: "these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto"
Deuteronomy 25:5: "If brethren dwell and one of them die, and have no"
Deuteronomy 25:6: "shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out"
Deuteronomy 25:7: "My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not"
Deuteronomy 25:9: "that will not build up his brother's house."
Deuteronomy 25:11: "strive one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver"
Deuteronomy 28:54: "his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children"
Deuteronomy 32:50: "unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor,"
Deuteronomy 33:9: "seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for"
Deuteronomy 33:16: "upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren."
Deuteronomy 33:24: "with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil."
Joshua 1:14: "but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valor,"
Joshua 1:15: "Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also"
Joshua 2:13: "my father, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver"
Joshua 2:18: "by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home"
Joshua 6:23: "Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all"
Joshua 14:8: " Nevertheless my brethren that went up me made the heart of the people melt:"
Joshua 15:17: "And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him"
Joshua 17:4: "to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave"
Joshua 17:4: "he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father."
Joshua 22:3: "Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto"
Joshua 22:4: "the LORD your God unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return"
Joshua 22:7: "thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when"
Joshua 22:8: "the spoil of your enemies with your brethren."
Judges 1:3: "And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight"
Judges 1:13: "of Kenaz, younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah"









©Copyright 1992-2025 Church of the Great God.   Contact C.G.G. if you have questions or comments.
Close
E-mail This Page
Hide permanently ×

Subscribe to our Newsletter