Brotherhood
אַחֲוָהStrong’s H0264achavah (a-cha-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Achavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “brotherhood”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.”
Meaning
- Fraternity, brotherhood
How it's translated
- the brotherhood 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zechariah 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אַחֲוָה achavah · brotherhood
fraternity, brotherhood
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “brotherhood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BROTH'ERHOOD, noun
[brother and hood.]
The state or quality of being a brother.
- An association of men for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
- A class of men of the same kind, profession, or occupation.
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.