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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Brethren

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

563exact KJV occurrences 332Old Testament 231New Testament 48books containing the word 8mapped Strong's IDs 562occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 9:22

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 22:9

Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where brethren appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH251
אָח

ʼâch · awkh

331 times translated as this KJV form629 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like 1])

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

Strong's first: Genesis 9:22Strong's last: Micah 5:3

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GreekG5569
ψευδάδελφος

pseudádelphos · psyoo-dad'-el-fos

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

a spurious brother, i.e. pretended associate

Strong's KJV usage: :--false brethren.

Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 11:26Strong's last: Galatians 2:4

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GreekG81
ἀδελφότης

adelphótēs · ad-el-fot'-ace

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

brotherhood (properly, the feeling of brotherliness), i.e. the (Christian) fraternity

Strong's KJV usage: :--brethren, brotherhood.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 1 Peter 5:9Strong's last: 1 Peter 5:9

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GreekG5360
φιλαδελφία

philadelphía · fil-ad-el-fee'-ah

1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences

fraternal affection

Strong's KJV usage: :--brotherly love (kindness), love of the brethren.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 1 Peter 1:22Strong's last: 1 Peter 1:22

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GreekG5361
φιλάδελφος

philádelphos · fil-ad'-el-fos

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

fond of brethren, i.e. fraternal

Strong's KJV usage: :--love as brethren.

Strong's first: 1 Peter 3:8Strong's last: 1 Peter 3:8

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Genesis 37:10
H251

And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

Genesis 37:10
H251

And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

Genesis 37:11
H251

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

Genesis 37:12
H251

And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

Genesis 37:13
H251

And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.

Genesis 37:14
H251

And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Genesis 37:16
H251

And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.

Genesis 37:17
H251

And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

Genesis 37:23
H251

And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;

Genesis 37:26
H251

And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

Genesis 37:27
H251

Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

Genesis 37:30
H251

And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

Genesis 38:1
H251

And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

Genesis 38:11
H251

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

Genesis 42:3
H251

And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

Genesis 42:4
H251

But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

Genesis 42:6
H251

And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

Genesis 42:7
H251

And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

Genesis 42:13
H251

And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

Genesis 42:19
H251

If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

Genesis 42:28
H251

And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?

Genesis 42:32
H251

We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 42:33
H251

And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:

Genesis 44:14
H251

And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

brethren

BRETH'REN, noun plural of brother. It is used almost exclusively in solemn and scriptural language, in the place of brothers. [See Brother.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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