Lexical Summary ach: a brother Original Word: אָחTransliteration: ach Phonetic Spelling: (awkh) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a brother Meaning: a brother, ) Strong's Concordance another, brotherly; kindred, like, other A primitive word; a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like 'ab)) -- another, brother(-ly); kindred, like, other. Compare also the proper names beginning with "Ah-" or "Ahi-". see HEBREW 'ab Brown-Driver-Briggs H251. ach I. אַחְבָּן אֶחָב, אַחְאָב, אָח, etc. see אחה. I. אָח630 noun masculine brother (Phoenician אח, Arabic (construct etc.), Sabean אחֿ (suffix אחֿיהו) CISiv.1, 17 and 24 and others, Ethiopic Assyrian a—u compare DlW, Aramaic אַח, ; Palmyreme, Nabataean suffix אחיה אחוהי,); — absolute אָח Genesis 24:29 + (Ezekiel 18:10 strike out Co compare ᵑ9 ᵑ6 ᵐ5; Ew Sm אַח; Dl BaEz x defends as = one compare Assyrian a—u) never with article; cstr אֲחִי Genesis 10:21 +; suffix אָחִי 4:9 +; אָחִיךָ 4:9 +; אָחִיו 4:2 +; אָחִיהוּ Jeremiah 34:9 3t. etc.; plural אַחִים Genesis 13:8 +; so read Hosea 13:15 see DeCompl. Var. 23 compare below אָחוּ; construct אֲחֵי Numbers 27:10 +; suffix אַחַי Genesis 19:7 +; אֶחָ֑י 1 Samuel 20:29 + (but 30:23 ᵐ5 We אַחֲרֵי for את אֶחָ֑י); אַחֶיךָ Genesis 37:13 +; אֶחָיו 44:14 +? 1 brother, born of same mother (& father) Genesis 4:2, 8, 9, 10, 11; 27:6, 11; 44:20; 49:5; compare 28:2; 29:10 (twice in verse) + Exodus 4:14 + often; also of half-brother Genesis 20:5, 13, 16 (on pa-rentage compare 20:12) 37:2, 4, 5 +, 2 Samuel 13:4, 7, 8 +. 2 indefinite = relative; Lot, of Abraham Genesis 13:8; 14:12, 14, 16; Jacob, of Laban 29:12, 15 (nephew); hence of kinship in wider sense; member of same tribe Numbers 16:10; 18:2, 6; 2 Samuel 19:13; of same people Exodus 2:11 (twice in verse); 4:18; Deuteronomy 15:12; Judges 14:3; Isaiah 66:20; Nehemiah 5:1, 5, 8 see especially Leviticus 19:17 compare 19:18 (ex-tended to include sojourner גֵּר 19:34); of Israel & Judah 2 Samuel 19:42; Israel & Edom Numbers 20:14; compare of Ishmael Genesis 16:12; 25:18; of friend 2 Samuel 1:26; 1 Kings 9:13; 20:32-33, of allies א ׳בְּרִית Amos 1:9. 3 figurative of resemblance Job 30:29 לְתַנִּים הָיִיתִי אָח ("" יַעֲנָה לִבְנוֺת רֵעַ i.e. by reason of his crying, compare Di; Proverbs 18:9 מַשְׁחִית לְבַעַל הוּא אָח בִּמְלַאכְתּוֺ מִתְרַמֶּה. 4 in phrase one . . . another אָחִיו אִישׁ Genesis 9:5; Joel 2:8; Ze Joel 7:10; אָחִיו ֗֗֗ אִישׁGenesis 13:11 25t + Exodus 32:27 (where also same phrase with רֵעֵהוּ & קְרֹבוֺ — see these words — & also אֶחָד אִישׁ,; for development of idiom compare Deuteronomy 15:2; Isaiah 19:2; Jeremiah 34:14 (compare15) 17 Ezekiel 38:21; Haggai 2:22; usually of men; of faces of golden cherubim Exodus 25:20; 37:9; of scales of crocodile Job 41:9. (אָח fire-pot. see below II. אחח.) אחה (assumed as √ of following; compare Biblical Hebrew אָח). |
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