אֵחִי
Ehi
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Ehi’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H278 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Genesis 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, אחי (ʼÊchîy) means “Ehi.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Genesis (100%). Its lone occurrence is Genesis 46:21. 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 H278 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Ehi 1×
- American Standard Version: Ehi 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ehi 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ehi 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H278 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H278 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H278 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H278 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Ehi = "my brother"
- son of Benjamin
Word origin
n.pr.m. a son of Benjamin Gn 46:21 (P) (perhaps corruption of אֲהִירָם Nu 26:38 (P); so also אַחֲרַח 1 Ch 8:1 cf. אַחֵר 7:12 & comm.)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אחי (ʼĂchîy) (H277) — Ahi.
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.
אַח
- Targ. fr.—Pl. אָחִין. Targ. Gen. XIII, 8; a. e.—אַחֵי Yeb. 65ᵇ.—Y. Yoma VI, 43ᵈ אֲחֵינָן our brothers
אחי
- (√חו, cmp. חבב) to unite. Part. pass. אָחוּי united. Num. R. s. 13, beg. שיהיו אֲחוּיִים אצלו they shall be united with him (around his table).
- to join; to sew together (with fine stitches); cmp. חוּט; חוּד I. Gen. R. s. 39 beg. אברהם שאֹ׳ את וכ׳ Abraham who united all mankind into a brotherhood (by the belief in one God), כזה שהוא מְאָחֶה וכ׳ like one who sews &c., v. infra. Ex. R. s. 40, end.—Esp. to mend, by stitching, the rent of the garment torn in mourning. M. Kat. 22ᵇ; a. fr. Ib. 26ᵃ לאַחוֹתָן to stitch them together.
- 1. to be joined; to be stitched together. Num. R. s. 13, beg. (play on אחותי Cant. V, 1) נִתְאָחוּ לי וכ׳ they were joined to me (I joined them) in the captivity. Gen. R. s. 68 מִתְאָחוֹת, v. אֶבֶן. M. Kat. 26ᵃ אין מתאחין must not be stitched together. e.g. Song of Solomon 5:1
- 2. to be joined by grafting, to grow together. Y. Kil. I, 27ᵃ top הן נתא׳ וכ׳ they (the two seeds) combine. Y. Shebi. II, end, 34ᵃ bot. Y. Orl. I, 61ᵃ bot.
אחי ²
- Pa. אַחֵי as foreg. Pi. Targ. Koh. III, 7 לאחאה to sew together.
חֲיִי
- Targ. Gen. V, 3; a. v. fr.—Part. חָאִי, חָיֵי. Targ. Y. Num. XXI, 8. Targ. Deut. VIII, 3; a. fr.—Taan. 25ᵃ דחֲיִית … או דחָיֵינָא (v. Ms. M. a. Rashi) is what I have lived more or what I have yet to live? Answ. דחֲיַית what thou hast lived. Snh. 81ᵃ מאן דעביד לכולהו הוא דח׳ will he only live who practiced all these virtues?; a. fr.—Ḥull. 7ᵇ הא קחזינא דחָיֵי but do’nt we see that they do recover?—Snh. 91ᵃ דחָיִין מיתי דמיתי חָיִין if those who live must die, can those who died, live again?; a. fr.
- as preced. Pi. Targ. Ps. LXXI, 20 תְּחַיֵּי (some ed. תֶּחִי). Targ. Job XXXVI, 6; a. fr.
- , אַחְיָיא same. Targ. II Kings VIII, 1.—Targ. Y. II, Deut. III, 1; a. e.
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.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ehi). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(my brother), head of one of the Benjamite houses according to the list in (Genesis 46:21) He seems to be the same as Ahiram in the list in (Numbers 26:38) In (1 Chronicles 8:1) he is called Aharah, and perhaps also Ahoah in ver. 4, Ahiah, ver. 7, and Aher, (1 Chronicles 7:12)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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