Sister
אָחוֹתStrong’s H0269achot (a-chot)
Appears in 104 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Achot is the Hebrew word usually translated “sister of”, “sister his” and “sister my”. It appears in 104 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.”
Meaning
- Sistersister (same parents) · half-sister (same father) · relative · beloved · (fig.) of intimate connection · another
How it's translated
- sister of 16
- sister his 13
- sister my 12
- sister their 11
- sister your 9
- sister her 9
- sister its 8
- o sister my 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 23
- Ezekiel 20
- 2 Samuel 10
- 1 Chronicles 10
- Exodus 8
- Leviticus 8
18 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 12:13Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
- Genesis 12:19Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
- Genesis 20:2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
- Genesis 20:5Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
- Genesis 20:12And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
- Genesis 24:30And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
All 104 verses, by book
- Genesis 23
- 4:2212:1312:1920:220:520:1224:3024:5924:6025:2026:726:928:929:1330:130:834:1334:1434:2734:3136:336:2246:17
- Deuteronomy 1
- 27:22
- Joshua 1
- 2:13
- Judges 1
- 15:2
- 2 Kings 1
- 11:2
- 2 Chronicles 1
- 22:11
- Proverbs 1
- 7:4
- Ezekiel 20
- 1:91:233:1316:4516:4616:4816:4916:5116:5216:5516:5616:6122:1123:423:1123:1823:3123:3223:3344:25
- Hosea 1
- 2:1
Hebrew dictionary
אָחוֹת achot · sister
1) sister 1a) sister (same parents) 1b) half-sister (same father) 1c) relative 1c1) (metaph) of Israel's and Judah's relationship 1d) beloved 1d1) bride 1e) (fig.) of intimate connection 1f) another
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sister” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SIS'TER, noun
- A female born of the same patents; correlative to brother.
- A woman of the same faith; a female fellow christian. James 2:15“If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food” James 2:15
- A female of the same kind.
- One of the same kind, or of the same condition; as sister-fruits.
All definitions and other forms of “sister”
- A female of the same society; as the nuns of a convent.
SIS'TER, verb transitive
To resemble closely.
SIS'TER, verb intransitive
To be akin; to be near to. [Little used.]
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.