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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Brethren
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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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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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אָח
ʼâch · awkh
331 times translated as this KJV form629 total Strong's occurrences
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-'.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 9:22Strong's last: Micah 5:3
Open full H251 profile →ἀδελφός
adelphós · ad-el-fos'
224 times translated as this KJV form362 total Strong's occurrences
a brother (literally or figuratively) near or remote (much like G1)
Strong's KJV usage: :--brother.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 1:2Strong's last: Revelation 22:9
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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
Open full G5569 profile →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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ho · ho
1 times translated as this KJV form1,134 total Strong's occurrences
the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
Strong's KJV usage: :--the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Strong's first: Acts 20:32Strong's last: Acts 20:32
Open full G3588 profile →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
Open full G5360 profile →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
Open full G5361 profile →אַח
ʼach · akh
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: brother.
Strong's first: Ezra 7:18Strong's last: Ezra 7:18
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H251
Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
H251
Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
H251
And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
H251
Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
H251
And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
H251
Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
H251
And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
H251
And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
H251
Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
H251
And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
H251
Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,
H251
And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
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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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