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.
Read in context →DEEP KJV WORD STUDY
Sisters
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.
1 Timothy 5:2
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Read in context →Ezekiel
6 occurrences in 5 verses.
Browse those occurrences →Where sisters appears.
This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
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.
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
Open full H269 profile →ἀδελφή
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
Open full G79 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.
3 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
G79
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.
G79
And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
G79
But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
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.
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.