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.
Read in context →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.
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.
Read in context →Genesis
81 occurrences in 73 verses.
Browse those occurrences →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
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.
אָח
ʼâch · awkh
244 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 4:2Strong's last: Malachi 2:10
Open full H251 profile →ἀδελφός
adelphós · ad-el-fos'
113 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 4:18Strong's last: Revelation 1:9
Open full G80 profile →יָבַם
yâbam · yaw-bam'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to marry a (deceased) brother's widow
Strong's KJV usage: perform the duty of a husband's brother, marry.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 25:5Strong's last: Deuteronomy 25:7
Open full H2992 profile →יָבָם
yâbâm · yaw-bawm'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a brother-in-law
Strong's KJV usage: husband's brother.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 25:5Strong's last: Deuteronomy 25:7
Open full H2993 profile →דּוֹד
dôwd · dode
1 times translated as this KJV form61 total Strong's occurrences
(figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle
Strong's KJV usage: (well-) beloved, father's brother, love, uncle.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 24:17Strong's last: 2 Kings 24:17
Open full H1730 profile →רֵעַ
rêaʻ · ray'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form187 total Strong's occurrences
an associate (more or less close)
Strong's KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, × (an-) other.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 24:10Strong's last: Deuteronomy 24:10
Open full H7453 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
Read the word in context.
11 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
H251
And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
H251
And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
H251
And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.
H251
And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
H251
And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.
H251
And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
H251
And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
H251
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
H251
(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)
H251
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
H251
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
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.
Know what each layer is—and what it is not.
Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.