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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Brother

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.

367exact KJV occurrences 252Old Testament 115New Testament 52books containing the word 6mapped Strong's IDs 363occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 4:2

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 1:9

I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where brother appears.

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

Genesis 8173 verses Exodus 99 verses Leviticus 109 verses Numbers 55 verses Deuteronomy 2723 verses Joshua 11 verses Judges 1111 verses Ruth 11 verses 1 Samuel 44 verses 2 Samuel 3126 verses 1 Kings 88 verses 2 Kings 11 verses 1 Chronicles 1818 verses 2 Chronicles 54 verses Nehemiah 22 verses Job 22 verses Psalms 33 verses Proverbs 55 verses Ecclesiastes 11 verses Song of Solomon 11 verses Isaiah 44 verses Jeremiah 87 verses Ezekiel 44 verses Hosea 11 verses Amos 11 verses Obadiah 22 verses Micah 11 verses Haggai 11 verses Zechariah 22 verses Malachi 22 verses Matthew 2116 verses Mark 129 verses Luke 1310 verses John 88 verses Acts 55 verses Romans 54 verses 1 Corinthians 108 verses 2 Corinthians 55 verses Galatians 11 verses Ephesians 11 verses Philippians 11 verses Colossians 33 verses 1 Thessalonians 22 verses 2 Thessalonians 22 verses Philemon 44 verses Hebrews 22 verses James 43 verses 1 Peter 11 verses 2 Peter 11 verses 1 John 1211 verses Jude 11 verses Revelation 11 verses
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

244 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-'.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 4:2Strong's last: Malachi 2:10

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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18 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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1 Chronicles 2:32
H251

And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.

1 Chronicles 2:42
H251

Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

1 Chronicles 4:11
H251

And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.

1 Chronicles 6:39
H251

And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,

1 Chronicles 7:16
H251

And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

1 Chronicles 8:39
H251

And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

1 Chronicles 11:20
H251

And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.

1 Chronicles 11:26
H251

Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

1 Chronicles 19:11
H251

And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

1 Chronicles 19:15
H251

And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 20:5
H251

And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.

1 Chronicles 20:7
H251

But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.

1 Chronicles 26:22
H251

The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 27:7
H251

The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

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

brother

BROTHER, noun plural brothers or brethren. [Latin frater.]

1. A human male born of the same father and mother. A male by one of the parents only is called a half-brother, or brother of the half blood.

2. Any one closely united; an associate; as a band of brothers.

3. 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.

In scripture, the term brother is applied to a kinsman by blood more remote that a son of the same parents; as in the case of Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Laban. Persons of the same profession call each other brother as judges, clergymen, professors of religion, members of societies united in a common cause, monks and the like.

Kings give to each other the title of brother address their congregations by the title of brethren. In a more general sense, brother or brethren is used for man in general; all men being children of the same primitive ancestors, and forming one race of beings.

BROTHER-german is a brother by the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother or by the mother only.

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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