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Word Study · Strong's H251 · Hebrew

אָח

ach

awkh

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼâch

a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like father))

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like father))

Rendered in the KJV as

another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with 'Ah-' or 'Ahi-'.

  • 630
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 212
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 212

  • וְאֶחָ֖יו27
  • אָחִ֖יךָ16
  • אֶחָ֖יו15
  • אָחִ֖יו14
  • אֲחִ֣י13
  • אֶחָ֔יו13
  • אָחִ֑יו13
  • אֶחָיו֙12
  • אָחִ֔יו11
  • אֲחִ֥י9
  • אֶחָ֑יו9
  • אָחִֽיו׃9

and 200 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 101

  • brother his61
  • brothers his57
  • brother your54
  • and relatives his39
  • [the] brother of34
  • relatives their15
  • brothers your14
  • [the] brothers of11
  • brother my11
  • and relatives their9
  • brothers their9
  • countryman your8

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 48

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular69
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular65
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular48
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular44
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)35
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural26
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular23
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural16
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular15
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)14
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular14
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular14
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 69
  • HNcmpc/Sp3ms · 65
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 48
  • HC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms · 44
  • HNcmsc · 35
  • HNcmpc/Sp3mp · 26
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 23
  • HNcmsc/Sp2mp · 16
  • HR/Ncmpc/Sp3ms · 15
  • HNcmpc · 14
  • HNcmpc/Sp1bs · 14
  • HNcmpc/Sp2ms · 14

The first 500 of 630, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis178 occurrences
Exodus17 occurrences
Leviticus23 occurrences
Numbers19 occurrences
Deuteronomy48 occurrences
Joshua13 occurrences
Judges29 occurrences
Ruth2 occurrences
1 Samuel12 occurrences
2 Samuel34 occurrences
1 Kings11 occurrences
2 Kings5 occurrences
1 Chronicles100 occurrences
2 Chronicles2 occurrences
Psalms7 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled אָח

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).