אַח
ʼach · H252 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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brother, countryman, kinsman, relative
Member of same family, clan, tribe, or ethnic group
ExamplesEzra 7:18 “And whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do according to the will of your God.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- רֵעַ rêaʻ · H7453 · shouting, loud crying, thunder
- A close associate or companion, often used in contexts where brotherhood-like relationships of mutual loyalty and affection are described, though רֵעַ emphasizes friendship rather than kinship.
- עָמִית ʻâmîyth · H5997 · neighbor, fellow-citizen
- One who stands alongside or is a fellow member of a community; can denote close association similar to brotherhood in social or covenantal contexts.
Contrasting words 2 words
- זוּר zûwr · H2114 · stranger, outsider, strange
- One who is outside the family or kinship group, the opposite of a brother who is within the family; זָר emphasizes alienness and lack of kinship bond.
- נׇכְרִי nokrîy · H5237 · foreign, strange, wild
- An outsider or foreigner with no familial or covenantal ties, contrasting with the insider status of a brother.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀδελφός adelphós · G80 · brother, fellow believer, (Christian) brother
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew אַח, denoting a brother in literal kinship or figurative brotherhood.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- Ezra 7:18 grants that “whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do according to the will of your God.”
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H252. ach [אַח] noun masculine brother; — plural suffix אחיך Kt (? יִַ֯֫ךְ K§ 53, 2, Anm.…
[אַח] noun masculine brother; — plural suffix אחיך Kt (? יִַ֯֫ךְ K§ 53, 2, Anm. b)), אֶחָךְ Qr (K§ 63) Ezr 7:18 thy brethren, i.e. fellows, associates.
[אַחֲוָיָה] see [חוה]. [אֲחִידָה] see חוד.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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