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:
2 Samuel 13:2: "was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin;"
2 Samuel 13:4: "Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister."
2 Samuel 13:5: "thee, say unto let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat,"
2 Samuel 13:6: "the king, I pray thee, my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes"
2 Samuel 13:11: "unto her, Come lie with me, my sister."
2 Samuel 13:20: "with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: is thy brother; regard"
2 Samuel 13:22: "Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar."
2 Samuel 13:32: "from the day that he forced his sister Tamar."
2 Samuel 17:25: "Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother."
1 Kings 11:19: "so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, of Tahpenes the queen."
1 Kings 11:19: "the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen."
1 Kings 11:20: " And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned"
2 Kings 11:2: "the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash"
1 Chronicles 1:39: "and Homam: and Timna was Lotan's sister."
1 Chronicles 2:16: " Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel,"
1 Chronicles 3:9: "beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister."
1 Chronicles 3:19: "Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:"
1 Chronicles 4:3: "and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:"
1 Chronicles 4:19: "And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite,"
1 Chronicles 7:15: "to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maachah;) and the name of the second"
1 Chronicles 7:18: " And his sister Hammoleketh bore Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah."
1 Chronicles 7:30: "and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister."
1 Chronicles 7:32: "and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister."
2 Chronicles 22:11: "of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid"
Job 1:4: "his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat with"
Job 17:14: "art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister."
Job 42:11: "him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat"
Proverbs 7:4: "Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:"
Song of Solomon 4:9: "Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one"
Song of Solomon 4:10: "How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love"
Song of Solomon 4:12: "A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed."
Song of Solomon 5:1: "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;"
Song of Solomon 5:2: "of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, for my head"
Song of Solomon 8:8: "We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day"
Song of Solomon 8:8: "breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?"
Jeremiah 3:7: "me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw"
Jeremiah 3:8: "a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not,"
Jeremiah 3:10: "for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto"
Jeremiah 22:18: "for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord!"
Ezekiel 1:9: "were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went"
Ezekiel 1:23: "straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side,"
Ezekiel 3:13: "of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise"
Ezekiel 16:45: "her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed"
Ezekiel 16:45: "and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed and their children:"
Ezekiel 16:46: "And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand:"
Ezekiel 16:46: "at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth is Sodom"
Ezekiel 16:48: "the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters,"
Ezekiel 16:49: "this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread,"
Ezekiel 16:51: "more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done."
Ezekiel 16:52: "also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that"
