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:
1 Chronicles 6:39: " And his brother Asaph, who stood his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah,"
1 Chronicles 6:44: " And their brethren the sons of Merari the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi,"
1 Chronicles 6:48: " Their brethren also the Levites were appointed of service of the tabernacle of the house of God."
1 Chronicles 7:5: " And their brethren among all the families were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies"
1 Chronicles 7:16: "his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem."
1 Chronicles 7:22: "mourned days, and his brethren came to comfort"
1 Chronicles 7:35: "And the sons of his brother Helem; and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal."
1 Chronicles 8:32: "also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against"
1 Chronicles 8:39: "And the sons of Eshek his brother his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet"
1 Chronicles 9:6: "the sons of Zerah; and their brethren, six hundred and ninety."
1 Chronicles 9:9: " And their brethren, according to their generations, nine and fifty and six. All these"
1 Chronicles 9:13: " And their brethren, heads of the house a thousand and seven hundred and threescore;"
1 Chronicles 9:17: "and Akkub, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;"
1 Chronicles 9:19: "of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over"
1 Chronicles 9:25: " And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come days from time to"
1 Chronicles 9:32: "And other of their brethren, of the sons the Kohathites, were over the shewbread,"
1 Chronicles 9:38: "also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren."
1 Chronicles 9:38: "their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren."
1 Chronicles 11:20: "And Abishai the brother of Joab, was chief of the three: for lifting up"
1 Chronicles 11:26: "Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo"
1 Chronicles 11:38: "Joel the brother of Nathan, the son of Haggeri,"
1 Chronicles 11:45: "the son of Shimri, his brother, the Tizite,"
1 Chronicles 12:2: "in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin."
1 Chronicles 12:29: "And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto"
1 Chronicles 12:32: "ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment."
1 Chronicles 12:39: "eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared"
1 Chronicles 13:2: "let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel,"
1 Chronicles 15:5: "of Kohath; Uriel and his brethren a hundred and twenty:"
1 Chronicles 15:6: "of Merari; Asaiah and his brethren two hundred and twenty:"
1 Chronicles 15:7: "of Gershom; Joel and his brethren a hundred and thirty:"
1 Chronicles 15:8: "of Elizaphan; Shemaiah and his brethren two hundred:"
1 Chronicles 15:9: "of Hebron; Eliel and his brethren fourscore:"
1 Chronicles 15:10: "of Uzziel; Amminadab and his brethren a hundred and twelve."
1 Chronicles 15:12: "of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD"
1 Chronicles 15:16: "to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of music, psalteries"
1 Chronicles 15:17: "the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of"
1 Chronicles 15:17: "and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;"
1 Chronicles 15:18: "And with them their brethren of the second Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel,"
1 Chronicles 16:7: "the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren."
1 Chronicles 16:37: "of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually,"
1 Chronicles 16:38: "And Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah"
1 Chronicles 16:39: "And Zadok the priest, and his brethren before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place"
1 Chronicles 19:11: "he delivered of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon."
1 Chronicles 19:15: "fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab"
1 Chronicles 20:5: "slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff"
1 Chronicles 20:7: "the son of Shimea David's brother slew"
1 Chronicles 23:22: "sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took"
1 Chronicles 23:32: "place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD."
1 Chronicles 24:25: " The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of Isshiah; Zechariah."
1 Chronicles 24:31: "cast over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David"
