Joshua 2:13
And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
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Sisters
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1 Timothy 5:2
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
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6 occurrences in 5 verses.
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אָחוֹת
ʼâchôwth · aw-khoth'
11 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: Joshua 2:13Strong's last: Hosea 2:1
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adelphḗ · ad-el-fay'
8 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 13:56Strong's last: 1 Timothy 5:2
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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
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
H269
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
H269
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
H269
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
H269
Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
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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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