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אַחֲוָה

ʼachăvâh · H264 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. brotherhood, unity

    Friendly relationship between two parties as if they were brothers

    Examples

    Zechariah 11:14 Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 3 entries
Speak002004001009008
אַחֲוָה here names brotherhood as a spoken bond, the relationship broken when the staff Union was cut in pieces (Zechariah 11:14).
Know002004002007
The breaking of this brotherhood was meant as a recognized sign, making known the rupture between Judah and Israel through the prophet's symbolic act (Zechariah 11:14).
Associate002003002002
אַחֲוָה most directly names the bond of association shared between Judah and Israel, broken when the staff Union was cut in pieces (Zechariah 11:14).
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָח ʼâch · H251 · brother, half-brother, cousin · 629×אָחוֹת ʼâchôwth · H269 · sister, half-sister, cousin · 114×אֲחוֹחִי ʼĂchôwchîy · H266 · Ahohite · 5×אַח ʼach · H252 · brother · 1×אַחֲוָהʼachăvâh · H264
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H264. achavah אַחֲוָה noun feminine brotherhood ׳הָא Zec 11:14 (between Judah & Israel).
H264. achavah
אַחֲוָה noun feminine brotherhood ׳הָא Zec 11:14 (between Judah & Israel).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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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