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:
Ezekiel 16:52: "also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters."
Ezekiel 16:55: " When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return"
Ezekiel 16:56: " For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,"
Ezekiel 16:61: "and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters,"
Ezekiel 22:11: "in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter."
Ezekiel 23:4: "of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters."
Ezekiel 23:11: " And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister"
Ezekiel 23:11: "in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms."
Ezekiel 23:18: "her, like as my mind was alienated her sister."
Ezekiel 23:31: "Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand."
Ezekiel 23:32: "the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be"
Ezekiel 23:33: "of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria."
Ezekiel 44:25: "or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, or for sister that hath had no"
Hosea 2:1: "Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah."
