אָח
brother
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 317 times (50%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 278 times (44%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 19 times (3%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 15 times (2%)
- Particle, Interjection 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 630 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 2 of 3 — showing verses 201–400 of 572 distinct verses where H251 appears, across 33 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 18 verses
- Numbers 27:4 אֲחֵ֥י n c mp cs Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.
- Numbers 27:7 אֲחֵ֣י n c mp cs The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
- Numbers 27:9 לְ/אֶחָי/ו prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms If he have no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.
- Numbers 27:10 אַחִ֑ים לַ/אֲחֵ֥י n c mp prep + n c mp cs If he have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.
- Numbers 27:11 אַחִים֮ n c mp If his father have no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute [and] ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 27:13 אָחִֽי/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
- Numbers 32:6 הַ/אַֽחֵי/כֶ֗ם ptcl inter + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?
- Numbers 36:2 אָחִ֖י/נוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cp and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
Deuteronomy 43 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:16 אֲחֵי/כֶם֙ אָחִ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear [the causes] between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
- Deuteronomy 1:28 אַחֵי/נוּ֩ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
- Deuteronomy 2:4 אֲחֵי/כֶ֣ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;
- Deuteronomy 2:8 אַחֵ֣י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
- Deuteronomy 3:18 אֲחֵי/כֶ֥ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.
- Deuteronomy 3:20 לַֽ/אֲחֵי/כֶם֮ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp until Yahweh give rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then shall you return every man to his possession, which I have given you.
- Deuteronomy 10:9 אֶחָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers; Yahweh is his inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)
- Deuteronomy 13:6 אָחִ֣י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
- Deuteronomy 15:2 אָחִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms This is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.
- Deuteronomy 15:3 אָחִ֖י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.
- Deuteronomy 15:7 אַחֶ֨י/ךָ֙ מֵ/אָחִ֖י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms If there be with you a poor man, one of your brothers, within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
- Deuteronomy 15:9 בְּ/אָחִ֨י/ךָ֙ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
- Deuteronomy 15:11 לְ/אָחִ֧י/ךָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
- Deuteronomy 15:12 אָחִ֣י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
- Deuteronomy 17:15 אַחֶ֗י/ךָ אָחִ֖י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers shall you set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
- Deuteronomy 17:20 מֵֽ/אֶחָ֔י/ו prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 18:2 אֶחָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms They shall have no inheritance among their brothers: Yahweh is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
- Deuteronomy 18:7 אֶחָי/ו֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 18:15 מֵ/אַחֶ֨י/ךָ֙ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen;
- Deuteronomy 18:18 אֲחֵי/הֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
- Deuteronomy 19:18 בְ/אָחִֽי/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;
- Deuteronomy 19:19 לְ/אָחִ֑י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 20:8 אֶחָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.
- Deuteronomy 22:1 אָחִ֜י/ךָ לְ/אָחִֽי/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.
- Deuteronomy 22:2 אָחִ֛י/ךָ אָחִ֨י/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.
- Deuteronomy 22:3 אָחִ֛י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.
- Deuteronomy 22:4 אָחִ֜י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
- Deuteronomy 23:7 אָחִ֖י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
- Deuteronomy 23:19 לְ/אָחִ֔י/ךָ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest:
- Deuteronomy 23:20 וּ/לְ/אָחִ֖י/ךָ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 24:7 מֵ/אֶחָי/ו֙ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
- Deuteronomy 24:14 מֵ/אַחֶ֕י/ךָ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:
- Deuteronomy 25:3 אָחִ֖י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
- Deuteronomy 25:5 אַחִ֜ים n c mp If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
- Deuteronomy 25:6 אָחִ֖י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 25:7 לְ/אָחִ֥י/ו prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.
- Deuteronomy 25:9 אָחִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.
- Deuteronomy 25:11 וְ/אָחִ֔י/ו conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
- Deuteronomy 28:54 בְ/אָחִי/ו֙ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;
- Deuteronomy 32:50 אָחִ֨י/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:
- Deuteronomy 33:9 אֶחָי/ו֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor knew he his own children: For they have observed your word, Keep your covenant.
- Deuteronomy 33:16 אֶחָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms For the precious things of the earth and the fullness of it, The good will of him who lived in the bush. Let [the blessing] come on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.
- Deuteronomy 33:24 אֶחָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Of Asher he said, Blessed be Asher with children; Let him be acceptable to his brothers, Let him dip his foot in oil.
Joshua 12 verses
- Joshua 1:14 אֲחֵי/כֶ֗ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them;
- Joshua 1:15 לַֽ/אֲחֵי/כֶם֮ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp until Yahweh have given your brothers rest, as [he has given] you, and they also have possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them: then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.
- Joshua 2:13 אַחַ/י֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs and that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.
- Joshua 2:18 אַחַ֗יִ/ךְ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2fs Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by: and you shall gather to you into the house your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household.
- Joshua 6:23 אַחֶ֨י/הָ֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs The young men the spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had; all her relatives also they brought out; and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
- Joshua 14:8 וְ/אַחַ/י֙ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Nevertheless my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
- Joshua 15:17 אֲחִ֣י n c ms cs Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
- Joshua 17:4 אַחֵ֑י/נוּ אֲחֵ֥י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp n c mp cs They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers: therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.
- Joshua 22:3 אֲחֵי/כֶ֗ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp you have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of Yahweh your God.
- Joshua 22:4 לַֽ/אֲחֵי/כֶ֔ם prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them: therefore now turn you, and get you to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
- Joshua 22:7 אֲחֵי/הֶ֔ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given [inheritance] in Bashan; but to the other half gave Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward; moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,
- Joshua 22:8 אֲחֵי/כֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp and spoke to them, saying, Return with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much clothing: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.
Judges 26 verses
- Judges 1:3 אָחִ֜י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot. So Simeon went with him.
- Judges 1:13 אֲחִ֥י n c ms cs Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
- Judges 1:17 אָחִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.
- Judges 3:9 אֲחִ֥י n c ms cs When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
- Judges 8:19 אַחַ֥/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs He said, They were my brothers, the sons of my mother: as Yahweh lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.
- Judges 9:1 אֲחֵ֖י n c mp cs Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
- Judges 9:3 אֲחֵֽי אָחִ֥י/נוּ n c mp cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cp His mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
- Judges 9:5 אֶחָ֧י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
- Judges 9:18 אֲחִי/כֶ֖ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 2mp and you are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
- Judges 9:21 אָחִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
- Judges 9:24 אֲחִי/הֶם֙ אֶחָֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
- Judges 9:26 וְ/אֶחָ֔י/ו conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.
- Judges 9:31 וְ/אֶחָי/ו֙ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers are come to Shechem; and, behold, they constrain the city [to take part] against you.
- Judges 9:41 אֶחָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Abimelech lived at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
- Judges 9:56 אֶחָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
- Judges 11:3 אֶחָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.
- Judges 14:3 אַחֶ֤י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.
- Judges 16:31 אֶחָ֜י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
- Judges 18:8 אֲחֵי/הֶ֔ם אֲחֵי/הֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, What [say] you?
- Judges 18:14 אֲחֵי/הֶ֔ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.
- Judges 19:23 אַחַ֖/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, don't do this folly.
- Judges 20:13 אֲחֵי/הֶ֥ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.
- Judges 20:23 אָחִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until even; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? Yahweh said, Go up against him.
- Judges 20:28 אָחִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.
- Judges 21:6 אָחִ֑י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
- Judges 21:22 אֲחֵי/הֶ֜ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.
Ruth 2 verses
- Ruth 4:3 לְ/אָחִ֖י/נוּ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cp He said to the near kinsman, Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
- Ruth 4:10 אֶחָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place: you are witnesses this day.
1 Samuel 10 verses
- 1 Samuel 14:3 אֲחִ֡י n c ms cs and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn't know that Jonathan was gone.
- 1 Samuel 16:13 אֶחָי/ו֒ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
- 1 Samuel 17:17 לְ/אַחֶ֨י/ךָ֙ לְ/אַחֶֽי/ךָ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers;
- 1 Samuel 17:18 אַחֶ֨י/ךָ֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and look how your brothers fare, and take their pledge.
- 1 Samuel 17:22 לְ/אֶחָ֖י/ו prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
- 1 Samuel 17:28 אָחִ֣י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.
- 1 Samuel 20:29 אָחִ֔/י אֶחָ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers. Therefore he is not come to the king's table.
- 1 Samuel 22:1 אֶחָי/ו֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
- 1 Samuel 26:6 אֲחִ֤י n c ms cs Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? Abishai said, I will go down with you.
- 1 Samuel 30:23 אֶחָ֑/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Then said David, You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
2 Samuel 29 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:26 אָחִ/י֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant have you been to me: Your love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women.
- 2 Samuel 2:22 אָחִֽי/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Abner said again to Asahel, Turn you aside from following me: why should I strike you to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?
- 2 Samuel 2:26 אֲחֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you bid the people return from following their brothers?"
- 2 Samuel 2:27 אָחִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Joab said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone away, nor followed everyone his brother.
- 2 Samuel 3:8 אֶחָי/ו֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day do I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman.
- 2 Samuel 3:27 אָחִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
- 2 Samuel 3:30 אָחִ֔י/ו אֲחִי/הֶ֛ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
- 2 Samuel 4:6 אָחִ֖י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms They came there into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
- 2 Samuel 4:9 אָחִ֗י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
- 2 Samuel 10:10 אָחִ֑י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
- 2 Samuel 13:3 אֲחִ֣י n c ms cs But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.
- 2 Samuel 13:4 אָחִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He said to him, Why, son of the king, are you thus lean from day to day? Won't you tell me? Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
- 2 Samuel 13:7 אָחִ֔י/ךְ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.
- 2 Samuel 13:8 אָחִ֖י/הָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. She took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
- 2 Samuel 13:10 אָחִ֖י/הָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand. Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
- 2 Samuel 13:12 אָחִ/י֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs She answered him, No, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don't you do this folly.
- 2 Samuel 13:20 אָחִ֗י/הָ אָחִי/ךְ֮ אָחִ֣י/ךְ אָחִֽי/הָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs n c ms cs + sfx pers 2fs n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs Absalom her brother said to her, Has Amnon your brother been with you? but now hold your peace, my sister: he is your brother; don't take this thing to heart. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.
- 2 Samuel 13:26 אָחִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Then said Absalom, If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us. The king said to him, Why should he go with you?
- 2 Samuel 13:32 אֲחִֽי n c ms cs Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered, Don't let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
- 2 Samuel 14:7 אָחִ֗י/ו אָחִי/ו֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.
- 2 Samuel 15:20 אַחֶ֛י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, seeing I go where I may? return you, and take back your brothers; mercy and truth be with you.
- 2 Samuel 18:2 אֲחִ֣י n c ms cs David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.
- 2 Samuel 19:12 אַחַ֣/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh: why then are you the last to bring back the king?
- 2 Samuel 19:41 אַחֵ֜י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?
- 2 Samuel 20:9 אָחִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
- 2 Samuel 20:10 אָחִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 2 Samuel 21:21 אֲחִ֥י n c ms cs When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him.
- 2 Samuel 23:18 אֲחִ֣י n c ms cs Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
- 2 Samuel 23:24 אֲחִֽי n c ms cs Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
1 Kings 11 verses
- 1 Kings 1:9 אֶחָי/ו֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Adonijah killed sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's servants:
- 1 Kings 1:10 אָחִ֖י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he didn't call.
- 1 Kings 2:7 אָחִֽי/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
- 1 Kings 2:15 לְ/אָחִ֔/י prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: however the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 2:21 אָחִ֖י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms She said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.
- 1 Kings 2:22 אָחִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs King Solomon answered his mother, Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
- 1 Kings 9:13 אָחִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
- 1 Kings 12:24 אֲחֵי/כֶ֣ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of Yahweh, and returned and went their way, according to the word of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 13:30 אָחִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!
- 1 Kings 20:32 אָחִ֥/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and [put] ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Your servant Ben Hadad says, please let me live. He said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
- 1 Kings 20:33 אָחִ֣י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to catch whether it were his mind; and they said, Your brother Ben Hadad. Then he said, Go you, bring him. Then Ben Hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
2 Kings 4 verses
- 2 Kings 7:6 אָחִ֗י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.
- 2 Kings 9:2 אֶחָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms When you come there, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brothers, and carry him to an inner chamber.
- 2 Kings 10:13 אֲחֵי֙ אֲחֵ֤י n c mp cs n c mp cs Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are you? They answered, We are the brothers of Ahaziah: and we go down to Greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.
- 2 Kings 23:9 אֲחֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
1 Chronicles 95 verses
- 1 Chronicles 1:19 אָחִ֖י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
- 1 Chronicles 2:32 אֲחִ֣י n c ms cs The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.
- 1 Chronicles 2:42 אֲחִ֣י n c ms cs The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
- 1 Chronicles 4:9 מֵ/אֶחָ֑י/ו prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.
- 1 Chronicles 4:11 אֲחִֽי n c ms cs Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
- 1 Chronicles 4:27 וּ/לְ/אֶחָ֕י/ו conj + prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Judah.
- 1 Chronicles 5:2 בְּ/אֶחָ֔י/ו prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's:)
- 1 Chronicles 5:7 וְ/אֶחָי/ו֙ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
- 1 Chronicles 5:13 וַ/אֲחֵי/הֶ֞ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Their brothers of their fathers' houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.
- 1 Chronicles 6:39 וְ/אָחִ֣י/ו conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
- 1 Chronicles 6:44 אֲחֵי/הֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
- 1 Chronicles 6:48 וַ/אֲחֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tent of the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 7:5 וַ/אֲחֵי/הֶ֗ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 7:16 אָחִ֖י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
- 1 Chronicles 7:22 אֶחָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
- 1 Chronicles 7:35 אָחִ֑י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
- 1 Chronicles 8:32 אֲחֵי/הֶ֛ם אֲחֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers.
- 1 Chronicles 8:39 אָחִ֑י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
- 1 Chronicles 9:6 וַ/אֲחֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred ninety.
- 1 Chronicles 9:9 וַ/אֲחֵי/הֶם֙ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers' [houses] by their fathers' houses.
- 1 Chronicles 9:13 וַ/אֲחֵי/הֶ֗ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and their brothers, heads of their fathers' houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 9:17 וַ/אֲחִי/הֶ֥ם conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp The porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),
- 1 Chronicles 9:19 וְֽ/אֶחָ֧י/ו conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entry.
- 1 Chronicles 9:25 וַ/אֲחֵי/הֶ֨ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:
- 1 Chronicles 9:32 אֲחֵי/הֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
- 1 Chronicles 9:38 אֲחֵי/הֶ֛ם אֲחֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers.
- 1 Chronicles 11:20 אֲחִֽי n c ms cs Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.
- 1 Chronicles 11:26 אֲחִ֣י n c ms cs Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
- 1 Chronicles 11:38 אֲחִ֣י n c ms cs Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
- 1 Chronicles 11:45 אָחִ֖י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
- 1 Chronicles 12:2 מֵ/אֲחֵ֥י prep + n c mp cs They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Saul's brothers of Benjamin.
- 1 Chronicles 12:29 אֲחֵ֥י n c mp cs Of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.
- 1 Chronicles 12:32 אֲחֵי/הֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment.
- 1 Chronicles 12:39 אֲחֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp They were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brothers had made preparation for them.
- 1 Chronicles 13:2 אַחֵ֣י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp David said to all the assembly of Israel, If it seem good to you, and if it be of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us;
- 1 Chronicles 15:5 וְ/אֶחָ֖י/ו conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;
- 1 Chronicles 15:6 וְ/אֶחָ֖י/ו conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
- 1 Chronicles 15:7 וְ/אֶחָ֖י/ו conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brothers one hundred thirty;
- 1 Chronicles 15:8 וְ/אֶחָ֥י/ו conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred;
- 1 Chronicles 15:9 וְ/אֶחָ֥י/ו conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;
- 1 Chronicles 15:10 וְ/אֶחָ֕י/ו conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.
- 1 Chronicles 15:12 וַ/אֲחֵי/כֶ֔ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to [the place] that I have prepared for it.
- 1 Chronicles 15:16 אֲחֵי/הֶם֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.
- 1 Chronicles 15:17 אֶחָ֔י/ו אֲחֵי/הֶ֔ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
- 1 Chronicles 15:18 אֲחֵי/הֶ֣ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and with them their brothers of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
- 1 Chronicles 16:7 וְ/אֶחָֽי/ו conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.
- 1 Chronicles 16:37 וּ/לְ/אֶחָ֑י/ו conj + prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, Asaph and his brothers, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required;
- 1 Chronicles 16:38 וַ/אֲחֵי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and Obed-edom with their brothers, sixty-eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;
- 1 Chronicles 16:39 וְ/אֶחָי/ו֙ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tent of Yahweh in the high place that was at Gibeon,
- 1 Chronicles 19:11 אָחִ֑י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
- 1 Chronicles 19:15 אָחִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 20:5 אֲחִי֙ n c ms cs There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
- 1 Chronicles 20:7 אֲחִ֥י n c ms cs When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother killed him.
- 1 Chronicles 23:22 אֲחֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them [to wife].
- 1 Chronicles 23:32 אֲחֵי/הֶ֑ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.
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אח — transliterated ʼâch — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “brother.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “brethren” in the King James Version, “brothers” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 572 verses across 33 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its most common vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Genesis. The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H251 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 572
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 572 distinct verses.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #77
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 77 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 572 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 155 verses 27%
- 1 Chronicles 95 verses 17%
- Deuteronomy 43 verses 8%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 572 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 251 verses · 44%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 184 verses · 32%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 137 verses · 24%
How translations render this word
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BDB lists this Strong’s number as 5 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Brethren 263×, Brother 199×, Brother's 21×
- American Standard Version†: Brethren 230×, Brother 180×, 's brother 19×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Brothers 221×, Brother 183×, Relatives 33×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Brothers 292×, Brother 224×, Brother of 30×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H251 across 629† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 95 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H251 across 630† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 122 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H251 across 614† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 63 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 15 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H251 across 650† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 32 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
אח I interj. (onomatop.) ah! alas! Ez 6
אח II
- 1. brother, born of same mother (& father) Gn 4:2, 8, 9, 10, 11; 27:6, 11; 44:20; 49:5; cf. 28:2; 29:10(×2) + Ex 4:14 + often; also of half-brother Gn 20:5, 13, 16 (on parentage cf. v 12) 37:2, 4, 5 +, 2 S 13:4, 7, 8 +. e.g. Genesis 4:2
- 2. indef. = relative; Lot, of Abr. Gn 13:8; 14:14, 16; Jacob, of Laban 29:12, 15 (nephew); hence of kinship in wider sense; member of same tribe Nu 16:10; 18:2, 6 2 S 19:13; of same people Ex 2:11(×2); 4:18 Dt 15:12 Ju 14:3 Is 66:20 Ne 5:1, 5, 8 vid. especially Lv 19:17 cf. v 18 (extended to incl. sojourner גֵּר v 34); of Israel & Judah 2 S 19:42; Isr. & Edom Nu 20:14; cf. of Ishmael Gn 16:12; 25:18; of friend 2 S 1:26 1 K 9:13; 20:32, 33; of allies בְּרִית א׳ Am 1:9. e.g. Genesis 13:8
- 3. fig. of resemblance Jb 30:29 אָח הָיִיתִי לְתַנִּים (‖ רֵעַ לִבְנוֹת יַעֲנָה) i.e. by reason of his crying, cf. Di; Pr 18:9 מִתְרַפֶּה בִּמְלַאכְתּוֹ אָח הוּא לְבַעַל מַשְׁחִית. e.g. Job 30:29
- 4. in phr. one … another אִישׁ אָחִיו Gn 9:5 Jo 2:8 Zc 7:10; אָחִיו … אִישׁ Gn 13:11 + 25 times + Ex 32:27 (where also same phr. c. רֵעֵהוּ & קְרֹבוֹ—v. these words—& also אִישׁ, אֶחָד); for development of idiom cf. Dt 15:2 Is 19:2 Je 34:14 (cf. 15) 17 Ez 38:21 Hg 2:22; usually of men; of faces of golden cherubim Ex 25:20; 37:9; of scales of crocodile Jb 41:9. (אָח fire-pot v. sub ii. אחח.) On pr. names compounded with אָח, v. reff. given under אָב supr. e.g. Genesis 9:5
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
III. interj. (onomatop.) ah! alas! Ez 6:11; 21:20. iii. אָח Ez 18:10 (textual error). Ez 18:10 אָח is a vox nihili (dittogr. from foll. אחד: v. Comm.): in 21:10 also dub. (𝔊 εὖ), read אַךְ Ew Hi Sm Toy, חַדָּה Co Berthol, אַתְּ Oort Krae.
IV. n.m. brother (Ph. אח, Arabic أَخٌ (cstr. أَخُو etc.), Sab. אחֿ (sf. אחֿיהו) CISiv, 1, 17 and 24 al., Ethiopic እኅው Assyrian aḫu cf. DlW, Aramaic אַח, ܐܰܚܳܐ; Palm., Nab. sf. אחוהי, אחיה);—abs. אָח Gn 24:29 + (Ez 18:10 del. Co cf. 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙; Ew Sm אַךְ; Dl Ba Ez x defends as = one cf. Assyrian aḫu) never c. art.; cstr. אֲחִי Gn 10:21 +; sf. אָחִי Gn 4:9 +; אָחִיךָ Gn 4:9 +; אָחִיו Gn 4:2 +; אָחִיהוּ Je 34:9 + 3 times etc.; pl. אַחִים Gn 13:8 +; so read Ho 13:15 v. DeCompl. Var. 23 cf. sub אָחוּ; cstr. אֲחֵי Nu 27:10 +; sf. אַחַי Gn 19:7 +; אֶחָ֑י 1 S 20:29 + (but 1 S 30:23 𝔊 We אַחֲרֵי for אֶחָ֑י את); אַחֶיךָ Gn 37:13 +; אֶחָיו Gn 44:14 + etc.
V. n.f. fire-pot, brasier (Arabic وَلَدًا, in Thes, is an error fire-pot is loan-word from Egyptian ʿḫ according to WMMOLZ 3, 51) always c. art. Je 36:22 הַא׳ לְפָנָיו מְבֹעָ֑רֶת the brasier before him was burning; v 23 הָאֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר אֶל־הָא׳; v 23 הָאֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר עַל־הָא׳ (i. אָח, brother v. sub אחה; iii. אָח interj., p. 25).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive word
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אָח I
- brother, kinsman; fellow, equal, fellow-believer &c. Meg. 11ᵃ (play on ăhashverosh, Ahasverus) אָׄחִׄיו ש̇ל ר̇אש̇ וכ׳ a brother (in cruelty) to the chief tyrant (Nebucadn.); a. fr.—Pl. אַחִים, אַחִין. Gen. R. s. 89, beg. (play on āḥu, Gen. XLI, 2) in years of plenty הבריות נעשו א׳ וכ׳ people are brotherly to each other. Gen. R. s. 99 אחים דפחתא וכ׳ brothers to the degraded woman (Dinah), … but not to Joseph; a. fr.—Cant. R. to VIII, 1 שני אחים brother and sister e.g. Genesis 41:2
אַח
- Targ. fr.—Pl. אָחִין. Targ. Gen. XIII, 8; a. e.—אַחֵי Yeb. 65ᵇ.—Y. Yoma VI, 43ᵈ אֲחֵינָן our brothers
אָח II
- interj. interj.
- 1. (b. h.) exclamation of sorrow, Oh! Meg. 11ᵃ (play on ăhashverosh; v. אָח I) א׳ לראשו woe upon his head. Snh. 102ᵇ (play on Ahab אח־אב) א׳ לשמי׳ a subject of grief to the Lord, and father (friend) of idolatry.—2 (= Syr.) exclamation of joy, Ah! Targ. Is. XLIV, 16 (h. הֶאָח).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 263 distinct written forms H251 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 203 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H251, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- אחאב ʼAchʼâb H256 Ahab
- אחבן ʼAchbân H257 Ahban
- אחוח ʼĂchôwach H265 Ahoah
- אחומי ʼĂchûwmay H267 Ahumai
- אחי ʼĂchîy H277 Ahi
- אחיאם ʼĂchîyʼâm H279 Ahiam
- אחיה ʼĂchîyâh H281 Ahijah
- אחיהוד ʼĂchîyhûwd H282 Ahihud
- אחיו ʼAchyôw H283 Ahio
- אחיחד ʼĂchîychud H284 Ahihud
- אחיטוב ʼĂchîyṭûwb H285 Ahitub
- אחילוד ʼĂchîylûwd H286 Ahilud
- אחימות ʼĂchîymôwth H287 Ahimoth
- אחימלך ʼĂchîymelek H288 Ahimelech
- אחימן ʼĂchîyman H289 Ahiman
- אחימעץ ʼĂchîymaʻats H290 Ahimaaz
- אחין ʼAchyân H291 Ahian
- אחינדב ʼĂchîynâdâb H292 Ahinadab
- אחינעם ʼĂchîynôʻam H293 Ahinoam
- אחיסמך ʼĂchîyçâmâk H294 Ahisamach
- אחיעזר ʼĂchîyʻezer H295 Ahiezer
- אחיקם ʼĂchîyqâm H296 Ahikam
- אחירם ʼĂchîyrâm H297 Ahiram
- אחירע ʼĂchîyraʻ H299 Ahira
+3 more proper names from this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 31 — not the complete family. 27 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 535 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 572 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 4:2
- Exodus 1:6
- Leviticus 7:10
- Numbers 6:7
- Deuteronomy 1:16
- Joshua 1:14
- Judges 1:3
- Ruth 4:3
- 1 Samuel 14:3
- 2 Samuel 1:26
- 1 Kings 1:9
- 2 Kings 7:6
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
