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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Brother
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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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81 occurrences in 73 verses.
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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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
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G80
Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
G80
And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
G80
And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:
G80
For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
G80
And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
G80
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
G80
For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.
G80
Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
G80
Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
G80
Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
G80
Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
G80
Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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