Genesis 4:22
And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
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Sister
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2 John 1:13
The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.
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22 occurrences in 22 verses.
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Genesis
2222 verses
Exodus
55 verses
Leviticus
98 verses
Numbers
33 verses
Deuteronomy
11 verses
Judges
11 verses
Ruth
21 verses
2 Samuel
1010 verses
1 Kings
32 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
99 verses
2 Chronicles
11 verses
Job
11 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
Song of Solomon
76 verses
Jeremiah
44 verses
Ezekiel
1412 verses
Matthew
11 verses
Mark
11 verses
Luke
22 verses
John
55 verses
Romans
22 verses
1 Corinthians
22 verses
James
11 verses
2 John
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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אָחוֹת
ʼâchôwth · aw-khoth'
90 times translated as this KJV form113 total Strong's occurrences
a sister (used very widely [like 251number 250, corrected to 251], literally and figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: (an-) other, sister, together.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 4:22Strong's last: Ezekiel 44:25
Open full H269 profile →ἀδελφή
adelphḗ · ad-el-fay'
15 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
a sister (naturally or ecclesiastically)
Strong's KJV usage: :--sister.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 12:50Strong's last: 2 John 1:13
Open full G79 profile →דּוֹדָה
dôwdâh · do-daw'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
an aunt
Strong's KJV usage: aunt, father's sister, uncle's wife.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 6:20Strong's last: Exodus 6:20
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14 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
H269
Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
H269
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
H269
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
H269
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
H269
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
H269
For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
H269
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
H269
And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
H269
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
H269
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
H269
So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
H269
Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
H269
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
H269
And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
English meaning and historical usage.
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sister
SIS'TER, noun
1. A female born of the same patents; correlative to brother.
2. A woman of the same faith; a female fellow christian. If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food. James 2:15.
3. A female of the same kind.
4. One of the same kind, or of the same condition; as sister-fruits.
5. A female of the same society; as the nuns of a convent.
SIS'TER, verb transitive To resemble closely.
SIS'TER, verb intransitive To be akin; to be near to. [Little used.]
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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