Hebrew

Brother

אָחStrong’s H0251

ach

Appears in 571 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Ach is the Hebrew word usually translated “brother his”, “brothers his” and “brother your”. It appears in 571 verses of the Old Testament.

“Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:”

Zechariah 7:9 KJV

Meaning

Brotherbrother of same parents · half-brother (same father) · relative, kinship, same tribe · each to the other (reciprocal relationship) · (fig.) of resemblance

How it's translated

brother his 83
brothers his 65
brother your 60
and relatives his 40
brother of 34
brothers your 23
relatives their 20
brother my 16

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Genesis 155
1 Chronicles 95
Deuteronomy 43
2 Samuel 29
Nehemiah 27
Judges 26

33 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

All 571 verses, by book

Genesis 155: 4:2 4:8 4:9 4:10 4:11 4:21 9:5 9:22 9:25 10:21 10:25 12:5 13:8 13:11 14:12 14:13 14:14 14:16 16:12 19:7 20:5 20:13 20:16 22:20 22:21 22:23 24:15 24:27 24:29 24:48 24:53 24:55 25:18 25:26 26:31 27:6 27:11 27:23 27:29 27:30 27:35 27:37 27:40 27:41 27:42 27:43 27:44 27:45 28:2 28:5 29:4 29:10 29:12 29:15 31:23 31:25 31:32 31:37 31:46 31:54 32:3 32:6 32:11 32:13 32:17 33:3 33:9 34:11 34:25 35:1 35:7 36:6 37:2 37:4 37:5 37:8 37:9 37:10 37:11 37:12 37:13 37:14 37:16 37:17 37:19 37:23 37:26 37:27 37:30 38:1 38:8 38:9 38:11 38:29 38:30 42:3 42:4 42:6 42:7 42:8 42:13 42:15 42:16 42:19 42:20 42:21 42:28 42:32 42:33 42:34 42:38 43:3 43:4 43:5 43:6 43:7 43:13 43:14 43:29 43:30 44:14 44:19 44:20 44:23 44:26 44:33 45:1 45:3 45:4 45:12 45:14 45:15 45:16 45:17 45:24 46:31 47:1 47:2 47:3 47:5 47:6 47:11 47:12 48:6 48:19 48:22 49:5 49:8 49:26 50:8 50:14 50:15 50:17 50:18 50:24
Exodus 16: 1:6 2:11 4:14 4:18 7:1 7:2 10:23 16:15 25:20 28:1 28:2 28:4 28:41 32:27 32:29 37:9
Leviticus 19: 7:10 10:4 10:6 16:2 18:14 18:16 19:17 20:21 21:2 21:10 25:14 25:25 25:35 25:36 25:39 25:46 25:47 25:48 26:37
Numbers 18: 6:7 8:26 14:4 16:10 18:2 18:6 20:3 20:8 20:14 25:6 27:4 27:7 27:9 27:10 27:11 27:13 32:6 36:2
Deuteronomy 43: 1:16 1:28 2:4 2:8 3:18 3:20 10:9 13:6 15:2 15:3 15:7 15:9 15:11 15:12 17:15 17:20 18:2 18:7 18:15 18:18 19:18 19:19 20:8 22:1 22:2 22:3 22:4 23:7 23:19 23:20 24:7 24:14 25:3 25:5 25:6 25:7 25:9 25:11 28:54 32:50 33:9 33:16 33:24
Joshua 12: 1:14 1:15 2:13 2:18 6:23 14:8 15:17 17:4 22:3 22:4 22:7 22:8
Judges 26: 1:3 1:13 1:17 3:9 8:19 9:1 9:3 9:5 9:18 9:21 9:24 9:26 9:31 9:41 9:56 11:3 14:3 16:31 18:8 18:14 19:23 20:13 20:23 20:28 21:6 21:22
Ruth 2: 4:3 4:10
1 Samuel 10: 14:3 16:13 17:17 17:18 17:22 17:28 20:29 22:1 26:6 30:23
2 Samuel 29: 1:26 2:22 2:26 2:27 3:8 3:27 3:30 4:6 4:9 10:10 13:3 13:4 13:7 13:8 13:10 13:12 13:20 13:26 13:32 14:7 15:20 18:2 19:12 19:41 20:9 20:10 21:21 23:18 23:24
1 Kings 11: 1:9 1:10 2:7 2:15 2:21 2:22 9:13 12:24 13:30 20:32 20:33
2 Kings 4: 7:6 9:2 10:13 23:9
1 Chronicles 95: 1:19 2:32 2:42 4:9 4:11 4:27 5:2 5:7 5:13 6:39 6:44 6:48 7:5 7:16 7:22 7:35 8:32 8:39 9:6 9:9 9:13 9:17 9:19 9:25 9:32 9:38 11:20 11:26 11:38 11:45 12:2 12:29 12:32 12:39 13:2 15:5 15:6 15:7 15:8 15:9 15:10 15:12 15:16 15:17 15:18 16:7 16:37 16:38 16:39 19:11 19:15 20:5 20:7 23:22 23:32 24:25 24:31 25:7 25:9 25:10 25:11 25:12 25:13 25:14 25:15 25:16 25:17 25:18 25:19 25:20 25:21 25:22 25:23 25:24 25:25 25:26 25:27 25:28 25:29 25:30 25:31 26:7 26:8 26:9 26:11 26:12 26:22 26:25 26:26 26:28 26:30 26:32 27:7 27:18 28:2
2 Chronicles 24: 5:12 11:4 11:22 19:10 21:2 21:4 21:13 22:8 28:8 28:11 28:15 29:15 29:34 30:7 30:9 31:12 31:13 31:15 35:5 35:6 35:9 35:15 36:4 36:10
Ezra 9: 3:2 3:8 3:9 6:20 8:17 8:18 8:19 8:24 10:18
Nehemiah 27: 1:2 3:1 3:18 4:2 4:14 4:19 4:23 5:1 5:5 5:7 5:8 5:10 5:14 7:2 10:10 10:29 11:12 11:13 11:14 11:17 11:19 12:7 12:8 12:9 12:24 12:36 13:13
Esther 1: 10:3
Job 9: 1:13 1:18 6:15 19:13 22:6 30:29 41:17 42:11 42:15
Psalms 7: 22:22 35:14 49:7 50:20 69:8 122:8 133:1
Proverbs 8: 6:19 17:2 17:17 18:9 18:19 18:24 19:7 27:10
Ecclesiastes 1: 4:8
Song of Solomon 1: 8:1
Isaiah 6: 3:6 9:19 19:2 41:6 66:5 66:20
Jeremiah 15: 7:15 9:4 12:6 13:14 22:18 23:35 25:26 29:16 31:34 34:9 34:14 34:17 35:3 41:8 49:10
Ezekiel 8: 4:17 11:15 18:18 24:23 33:30 38:21 44:25 47:14
Hosea 3: 2:1 12:3 13:15
Joel 1: 2:8
Amos 2: 1:9 1:11
Obadiah 2: 1:10 1:12
Micah 2: 5:3 7:2
Haggai 1: 2:22
Zechariah 2: 7:9 7:10
Malachi 2: 1:2 2:10

Hebrew dictionary

אָח ach · brother

: male-sibling 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

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “brother” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BROTHER, noun

plural brothers or brethren. [Latin frater.]

A human male born of the same father and mother.
Any one closely united; an associate; as a band of brothers.
One that resembles another in manners.“He that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster” Proverbs 18:9

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.