H251 Definition

Strong's number
H251
Lemma
אָח
Transliteration
ʼâch
Pronunciation
awkh
Strong's definition
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like father)) another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with 'Ah-' or 'Ahi-'. a primitive word;

573 instances of the word אָח ʼâch (H251)


  • Genesis 27:30 - had made an end And it came to pass as soon as Isaac of blessing Jacob was yet gone out gone out Jacob from the presence And it came to pass as soon as Isaac his father that Esau his brother came in from his hunting

  • Genesis 27:35 - And he said came Thy brother with subtilty and hath taken away thy blessing

  • Genesis 27:37 - answered And Isaac and said unto Esau him thy lord Behold I have made and all his brethren have I given to him for servants and with corn and wine have I sustained now him and what shall I do unto thee my son

  • Genesis 27:40 - And by thy sword shalt thou live thy brother and shalt serve and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck

  • Genesis 27:41 - hated And Esau Jacob because of the blessing wherewith blessed him for my father said And Esau in his heart are at hand The days of mourning for my father then will I slay Jacob my brother

  • Genesis 27:42 - were told to Rebekah And these words Esau son her elder and she sent and called Jacob son her younger and said Esau unto him Behold thy brother as touching thee doth comfort himself purposing to kill

  • Genesis 27:43 - Now therefore my son obey my voice and arise flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran

  • Genesis 27:44 - And tarry days with him a few until turn away fury thy brother's

  • Genesis 27:45 - turn away anger Until thy brother's from thee and he forget that which thou hast done to him then I will send and fetch thee from thence why should I be deprived also of you both day in one

  • Exodus 28:1 - And take Aaron's thy brother and his sons with him from among and his sons of Israel that he may minister unto me in the priest's office Aaron's Nadab and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar and his sons Aaron's

  • Exodus 28:2 - And thou shalt make garments holy for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty

  • Genesis 28:2 - Arise to Padanaram to the house of Bethuel father thy mother's and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban brother thy mother's

  • 1 Chronicles 28:2 - stood up Then David the king upon his feet and said Hear me my brethren and my people As for me I had in mine heart for the building an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and for the footstool upon his feet of our God and had made ready for the building

  • Exodus 28:4 - And these are the garments and they shall make a breastplate and an ephod and a robe coat and a broidered a mitre and a girdle and they shall make And these are the garments holy for Aaron thy brother and his sons that he may minister unto me in the priest's office

  • Genesis 28:5 - sent away And Isaac Jacob to Padanaram unto Laban son of Bethuel the Syrian the brother of Rebekah mother Jacob and Esau's

  • 2 Chronicles 28:8 - carried away captive And the children of Israel of their brethren two hundred thousand women And the children and daughters spoil much and took also away from them and brought spoil to Samaria

  • 2 Chronicles 28:11 - Now hear me therefore and deliver the captives again which ye have taken captive of your brethren for the fierce wrath of the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 28:15 - rose up which were expressed by name and took the captives all that were naked among them and arrayed and with the spoil among them and arrayed them and shod them and gave them to eat and to drink and anointed them and carried of them upon asses all the feeble and brought them to Jericho the city of palm trees to their brethren then they returned to Samaria

  • Exodus 28:41 - And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother and his sons with him and shalt anoint them and consecrate them and sanctify them that they may minister unto me in the priest's office

  • Deuteronomy 28:54 - So that the man that is tender delicate among you and very his eye toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave

  • Genesis 29:4 - be ye And they said And Jacob unto them My brethren whence be ye And they said Of Haran

  • Genesis 29:10 - saw And it came to pass when Jacob Rachel the daughter of Laban brother his mother's and the sheep of Laban brother his mother's went near And it came to pass when Jacob and rolled the stone mouth from the well's and watered and the sheep of Laban brother his mother's

  • Genesis 29:12 - and told And Jacob Rachel brother her father son and that he was Rebekah's and she ran and told her father

  • Genesis 29:15 - said And Laban unto Jacob Because thou art my brother shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought tell me what shall thy wages

  • 2 Chronicles 29:15 - And they gathered their brethren and sanctified themselves and came according to the commandment of the king by the words of the LORD to cleanse the house of the LORD

  • Jeremiah 29:16 - Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that dwelleth upon the throne of David and of all the people that dwelleth in this city and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity

  • 2 Chronicles 29:34 - But the priests were too few so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings did help wherefore their brethren the Levites was ended them till the work had sanctified But the priests the Levites were more upright in heart had sanctified But the priests

  • 2 Chronicles 30:7 - And be not ye like your fathers and like your brethren which trespassed against the LORD God And be not ye like your fathers who therefore gave them up to desolation as ye see

  • 2 Chronicles 30:9 - For if ye turn again for the LORD your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive For if ye turn again into this land is gracious and merciful for the LORD your God and will not turn away before For if ye turn again

  • 1 Samuel 30:23 - Then said David Ye shall not do so my brethren hath given with that which the LORD us who hath preserved hath given the company that came against us into our hand

  • Job 30:29 - I am a brother to dragons and a companion to owls

  • 2 Chronicles 31:12 - And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully was ruler over which Cononiah the Levite and Shimei his brother was the next

  • 2 Chronicles 31:13 - And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother at the commandment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of the house of God

  • 2 Chronicles 31:15 - by And next him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah Amariah and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests in their set office to give to their brethren courses as well to the great as to the small

  • Genesis 31:23 - And he took his brethren with him and pursued after him journey seven days and they overtook him in the mount Gilead

  • Genesis 31:25 - overtook Then Laban Jacob Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount Then Laban had pitched with his brethren in the mount of Gilead

  • Genesis 31:32 - With whomsoever thou findest thy gods let him not live before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me and take knew it to thee For Jacob not that Rachel had stolen

  • Jeremiah 31:34 - And they shall teach and every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the LORD Know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the LORD for I will forgive their iniquity their sin and I will remember

  • Genesis 31:37 - Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff what hast thou found all my stuff of all thy household set it here and thy brethren and thy brethren that they may judge betwixt us both

  • Genesis 31:46 - said And Jacob unto his brethren Gather stones and they took stones and made an heap and they did eat an heap

  • Genesis 31:54 - offered Then Jacob sacrifice in the mount and called his brethren and they did eat bread and they did eat bread and tarried all night in the mount

  • Genesis 32:3 - sent And Jacob messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir the country of Edom

  • Genesis 32:6 - returned And the messengers to Jacob saying We came to thy brother Esau and also he cometh to meet thee and four hundred men

  • Numbers 32:6 - said And Moses and to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben Shall your brethren go to war and shall ye sit

  • Genesis 32:11 - Deliver me I pray thee from the hand of my brother I pray thee from the hand of Esau for I fear him lest he will come and smite me and the mother with the children

  • Genesis 32:13 - And he lodged there that same night and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother

  • Genesis 32:17 - And he commanded the foremost saying meeteth thee When Esau my brother and asketh thee saying thou and whose are these before

  • Exodus 32:27 - And he said And he said the LORD God of Israel Put and every man his sword by his side and go in and out from gate from gate throughout the camp and slay and every man his brother and every man his companion and every man his neighbour

  • Exodus 32:29 - had said For Moses Consecrate yourselves this day to the LORD even every man upon his son and upon his brother that he may bestow this day upon you a blessing

  • Deuteronomy 32:50 - And die in mount whither thou goest up and be gathered unto his people And die as Aaron thy brother Hor in mount and be gathered unto his people

  • Genesis 33:3 - And he passed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother

  • Deuteronomy 33:9 - Who said unto his father and to his mother I have not seen his brethren him neither did he acknowledge his own children nor knew for they have observed thy word thy covenant and kept

  • Genesis 33:9 - said And Esau I have enough my brother

  • Deuteronomy 33:16 - And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren

  • Deuteronomy 33:24 - And of Asher he said be blessed with children And of Asher let him be acceptable to his brethren and let him dip in oil his foot

  • Ezekiel 33:30 - Also thou son of man Also thou son of thy people and speak against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses and speak one to another every one to his brother saying Come I pray you and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD

  • Jeremiah 34:9 - go That every man should let his manservant That every man his maidservant being an Hebrew being an Hebrew free that none should serve himself of them to wit of a Jew his brother That every man

  • Genesis 34:11 - and what ye shall say unto her father and unto her brethren Let me find grace in your eyes and what ye shall say unto me I will give

  • Jeremiah 34:14 - At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew which hath been sold unto thee and when he hath served thee six years let ye go free hearkened from thee but your fathers not unto me neither inclined their ear

  • Jeremiah 34:17 - Therefore thus saith the LORD Ye have not hearkened behold I proclaim a liberty and every man to his brother and every man to his neighbour behold I proclaim a liberty for you saith the LORD to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine and I will make into all the kingdoms of the earth

  • Genesis 34:25 - day And it came to pass on the third when they were sore took that two of the sons of Jacob Simeon and Levi brethren Dinah's each man his sword and came upon the city boldly and slew all the males

  • Genesis 35:1 - said And God unto Jacob Arise go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother

  • Jeremiah 35:3 - Then I took Jaazaniah and all his sons of Jeremiah and all his sons of Habaziniah and his brethren and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites

  • 2 Chronicles 35:5 - And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the families of your brethren the people and after the division of the families of the families of the Levites

  • 2 Chronicles 35:6 - So kill the passover and sanctify yourselves and prepare your brethren that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses

  • Genesis 35:7 - And he built there an altar and called the place appeared because there God unto him when he fled from the face of his brother

  • 2 Chronicles 35:9 - Conaniah also and Shemaiah and Nethaneel his brethren and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad chief of the Levites gave of the Levites for passover offerings five thousand oxen five hundred

  • Psalms 35:14 - myself as though he had been my friend or brother I behaved as one that mourneth for his mother heavily I bowed down

  • 2 Chronicles 35:15 - And the singers the sons and Asaph were in their place according to the commandment of David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun seer the king's and the porters waited at every gate waited at every gate they might not depart from their service for their brethren the Levites prepared

  • Numbers 36:2 - And they said and my lord commanded The LORD to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel and my lord commanded The LORD to give for an inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters

  • 2 Chronicles 36:4 - king And the king him to Egypt made Eliakim his brother over Judah and Jerusalem and turned his name to Jehoiakim Jehoahaz his brother took And Necho and carried him to Egypt

  • Genesis 36:6 - took And Esau his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the persons of his house and his cattle and all his beasts and all his substance which he had got in the land of Canaan in the land from the face Jacob of his brother

  • 2 Chronicles 36:10 - was expired And when the year sent king Nebuchadnezzar and brought him to Babylon vessels with the goodly of the house of the LORD king and made Zedekiah his brother over Judah and Jerusalem

  • Genesis 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob Joseph and with the sons being seventeen years was feeding with his brethren the flock and the lad and with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah wives his father's brought Joseph report their evil his father's

  • Genesis 37:4 - saw And when his brethren loved that their father And when his brethren they hated him and could not speak peaceably

  • Genesis 37:5 - dreamed And Joseph a dream and he told it his brethren him yet the more and they hated

  • Genesis 37:8 - said And his brethren reign reign have dominion have dominion him yet the more over us And they hated for his dreams and for his words

  • Exodus 37:9 - And the cherubims spread out their wings on high and covered their wings even to the mercy seatward were the faces one to another even to the mercy seatward were the faces And the cherubims

  • Genesis 37:9 - And he dreamed a dream yet another and told it his brethren and said And he dreamed a dream more and behold the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance

  • Genesis 37:10 - And he told and his father and thy brethren rebuked and his father him and said unto him What is this dream that thou hast dreamed come come Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth

  • Genesis 37:11 - envied And his brethren him but his father observed the saying

  • Genesis 37:12 - And his brethren to feed flock their father's in Shechem

  • Genesis 37:13 - said And Israel unto Joseph Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem and I will send thee said

  • Genesis 37:14 - And he said I pray thee see and well with thy brethren and well with the flocks again me word So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron and he came to Shechem

  • Genesis 37:16 - And he said my brethren I seek tell me I pray thee where they feed

  • Genesis 37:17 - said And the man They are departed hence for I heard said them in Dothan And Joseph after his brethren and found them in Dothan

  • Genesis 37:19 - And they said one to another dreamer Behold this cometh

  • Genesis 37:23 - was come And it came to pass when Joseph unto his brethren that they stript And it came to pass when Joseph his coat his coat of many colours

  • Genesis 37:26 - said And Judah our brother What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood

  • Genesis 37:27 - and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites and let not our hand And his brethren and our flesh were content And his brethren

  • Genesis 37:30 - And he returned unto his brethren and said The child is not and I whither shall I go

  • Genesis 38:1 - And it came to pass at that time went down that Judah from his brethren and turned in to a certain Adullamite whose name was Hirah

  • Genesis 38:8 - said And Judah unto Onan Go in wife to thy brother and marry her and raise up seed to thy brother

  • Genesis 38:9 - knew And Onan seed should not be his and it came to pass when he went in wife to his brother that he spilled it on the ground lest that he should give seed to his brother

  • Genesis 38:11 - Then said Judah did And Tamar his daughter in law Remain a widow house at thy father's be grown till Shelah my son Then said Lest peradventure he die also as his brethren did And Tamar Remain house at thy father's

  • Ezekiel 38:21 - And I will call against him throughout all my mountains for a sword saith the Lord GOD for a sword every man's shall be against his brother

  • Genesis 38:29 - And it came to pass as he drew back his hand came out that behold his brother and she said How hast thou broken forth this breach was called be upon thee therefore his name Pharez

  • Genesis 38:30 - And afterward came out his brother upon his hand that had the scarlet thread was called and his name Zarah

  • Isaiah 41:6 - every one his neighbour They helped to his brother and every one said Be of good courage

  • Jeremiah 41:8 - But ten were found among them that said unto Ishmael Slay us not for we have treasures in the field of wheat and of barley and of oil and of honey So he forbare Slay them not among their brethren