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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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 →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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ʼâch · awkh
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 4:2Strong's last: Malachi 2:10
Open full H251 profile →adelphós · ad-el-fos'
a brother (literally or figuratively) near or remote (much like G1)
Strong's KJV usage: :--brother.
Strong's first: Matthew 4:18Strong's last: Revelation 1:9
Open full G80 profile →yâbam · yaw-bam'
to marry a (deceased) brother's widow
Strong's KJV usage: perform the duty of a husband's brother, marry.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 25:5Strong's last: Deuteronomy 25:7
Open full H2992 profile →yâbâm · yaw-bawm'
a brother-in-law
Strong's KJV usage: husband's brother.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 25:5Strong's last: Deuteronomy 25:7
Open full H2993 profile →dôwd · dode
(figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle
Strong's KJV usage: (well-) beloved, father's brother, love, uncle.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 24:17Strong's last: 2 Kings 24:17
Open full H1730 profile →rêaʻ · ray'-ah
an associate (more or less close)
Strong's KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, × (an-) other.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 24:10Strong's last: Deuteronomy 24:10
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But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Benhadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Benhadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.
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.
And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.
And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,
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.
And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.
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.
Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,
Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
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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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