Lexical Definition

‎אָח‎ ʼâch (awkh) brother: male-sibling ^H:N-M
a primitive word

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

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

1) brother
1a) brother of same parents
1b) half-brother (same father)
1c) relative, kinship, same tribe
1d) each to the other (reciprocal relationship)
1e) (fig.) of resemblance

See Greek: ἀδελφός · ἐγγύς · ἕτερος

Extended Information

meaning of: אָח

• : male-relative

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Also see: אַחְאָב | אַחְבָן

I. ‎אָח‎, ‎אַחְאָב‎, ‎אֶחָב‎, ‎אַחְבָּן‎ etc. see ‎אחה‎.

I. ‎אָח‎₆₃₀ noun masculine brother (Phoenician ‎אח‎, Arabic (construct etc.), Sabean ‎אחֿ‎ (suffix ‎אחֿיהו‎) CIS^{iv.1,17 and 24} and others, Ethiopic Assyrian a—u compare Dl^W, Aramaic ‎אַח‎, ; Palmyreme, Nabataean suffix ‎אחוהי‎, ‎אחיה‎); — absolute ‎אָח‎ Gen 24:29 + (Ezek 18:10 strike out Co compare ᵐ5 ᵑ6 ᵑ9; Ew Sm ‎אַח‎; Dl Ba^{Ez x} defends as = one compare Assyrian a—u) never with article; cstr ‎אֲחִי‎ Gen 10:21 +; suffix ‎אָחִי‎ Gen 4:9 +; ‎אָחִיךָ‎ Gen 4:9 +; ‎אָחִיו‎ Gen 4:2 +; ‎אָחִיהוּ‎ Jer 34:9 + 3 t. etc.; plural ‎אַחִים‎ Gen 13:8 +; so read Hos 13:15 see De^{Compl. Var. 23} compare below ‎אָחוּ‎; construct ‎אֲחֵי‎ Num 27:10 +; suffix ‎אַחַי‎ Gen 19:7 +; ‎אֶחָ֑י‎ 1Sam 20:29 + (but 1Sam 30:23 ᵐ5 We ‎אַחֲרֵי‎ for ‎אֶחָ֑י את‎); ‎אַחֶיךָ‎ Gen 37:13 +; ‎אֶחָיו‎ Gen 44:14 + etc.

1. brother, born of same mother (& father) Gen 4:2; Gen 4:8; Gen 4:9; Gen 4:10; Gen 4:11; Gen 27:6; Gen 27:11; Gen 44:20; Gen 49:5 compare Gen 28:2; Gen 29:10 (twice in verse) + Exod 4:14 + often; also of half-brother Gen 20:5; Gen 20:13; Gen 20:16 (on pa-rentage compare vGen 20:12) Gen 37:2; Gen 37:4; Gen 37:5 +, 2Sam 13:4; 2Sam 13:7; 2Sam 13:8 +.

2. indefinite = relative; Lot, of Abraham Gen 13:8; Gen 14:12; Gen 14:14; Gen 14:16 Jacob, of Laban Gen 29:12; Gen 29:15 (nephew); hence of kinship in wider sense; member of same tribe Num 16:10; Num 18:2; Num 18:6; 2Sam 19:13* of same people Exod 2:11 (twice in verse); Exod 4:18; Deut 15:12; Judg 14:3; Isa 66:20; Neh 5:1; Neh 5:5; Neh 5:8 see especially Lev 19:17 compare vLev 19:18 (ex-tended to include sojourner ‎גֵּר‎ vLev 19:34); of Israel & Judah 2Sam 19:42* Israel & Edom Num 20:14 compare of Ishmael Gen 16:12; Gen 25:18 of friend 2Sam 1:26; 1Kgs 9:13; 1Kgs 20:32; 1Kgs 20:33 of allies ‎׳‎‎בְּרִית א‎ Amos 1:9.

3. figurative of resemblance Job 30:29 ‎אָח הָיִיתִי לְתַנִּים‎ (|| ‎רֵעַ לִבְנוֺת‎ ‎יַעֲנָה‎ i.e. by reason of his crying, compare Di; Prov 18:9 ‎מִתְרַפֶּה בִּמְלַאכְתּוֺ אָח הוּא לְבַעַל מַשְׁחִית‎.

4. in phrase one . . . another ‎אִישׁ אָחִיו‎ Gen 9:5; Joel 2:8 Ze Joel 7:10 ‎אִישׁ ֗֗֗ אָחִיו‎Gen 13:11 + 25 t + Exod 32:27 (where also same phrase with ‎רֵעֵהוּ‎ & ‎קְרֹבוֺ‎ — see these words — & also ‎אִישׁ‎, ‎אֶחָד‎; for development of idiom compare Deut 15:2; Isa 19:2; Jer 34:14 (compare15) 17 Ezek 38:21; Hag 2:22 usually of men; of faces of golden cherubim Exod 25:20; Exod 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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