Brother
אַחStrong’s H0252ach
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Ach is the Aramaic word usually translated “brothers your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.”
Meaning
- Brother
How it's translated
- brothers your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
אַח ach · brother
brother Aramaic of ach (אָח ": male-sibling" H0251)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.