I. אָח630 noun masculine brother (Phoenician אח, Arabic (construct etc.), Sabean אחֿ (suffix אחֿיהו) CISiv.1,17 and 24 and others, Ethiopic Assyrian a—u compare DlW, Aramaic אַח, ; Palmyreme, Nabataean suffix אחוהי, אחיה); — absolute אָח [Gen 24:29] + ([Ezek 18:10] strike out Co compare ᵐ5 ᵑ6 ᵑ9; Ew Sm אַח; Dl BaEz x defends as = one compare Assyrian a—u) never with article; cstr אֲחִי [Gen 10:21] +; suffix אָחִי [Gen 4:9] +; אָחִיךָ [Gen 4:9] +; אָחִיו [Gen 4:2] +; אָחִיהוּ [Jer 34:9] + 3 t. etc.; plural אַחִים [Gen 13:8] +; so read [Hos 13:15] see DeCompl. Var. 23 compare below אָחוּ; construct אֲחֵי [Num 27:10] +; suffix אַחַי [Gen 19:7] +; אֶחָ֑י [1Sam 20:29] + (but [1Sam 30:23] ᵐ5 We אַחֲרֵי for אֶחָ֑י את); אַחֶיךָ [Gen 37:13] +; אֶחָיו [Gen 44:14] + etc.
1. brother, born of same mother (& father) [Gen 4:2]; [Gen 4:8]; [Gen 4:9]; [Gen 4:10]; [Gen 4:11]; [Gen 27:6]; [Gen 27:11]; [Gen 44:20]; [Gen 49:5] compare [Gen 28:2]; [Gen 29:10] (twice in verse) + [Exod 4:14] + often; also of half-brother [Gen 20:5]; [Gen 20:13]; [Gen 20:16] (on pa-rentage compare v[Gen 20:12]) [Gen 37:2]; [Gen 37:4]; [Gen 37:5] +, [2Sam 13:4]; [2Sam 13:7]; [2Sam 13:8] +.
2. indefinite = relative; Lot, of Abraham [Gen 13:8]; [Gen 14:12]; [Gen 14:14]; [Gen 14:16] Jacob, of Laban [Gen 29:12]; [Gen 29:15] (nephew); hence of kinship in wider sense; member of same tribe [Num 16:10]; [Num 18:2]; [Num 18:6]; [2Sam 19:13] of same people [Exod 2:11] (twice in verse); [Exod 4:18]; [Deut 15:12]; [Judg 14:3]; [Isa 66:20]; [Neh 5:1]; [Neh 5:5]; [Neh 5:8] see especially [Lev 19:17] compare v[Lev 19:18] (ex-tended to include sojourner גֵּר v[Lev 19:34]); of Israel & Judah [2Sam 19:42] Israel & Edom [Num 20:14] compare of Ishmael [Gen 16:12]; [Gen 25:18] of friend [2Sam 1:26]; [1Kgs 9:13]; [1Kgs 20:32]; [1Kgs 20:33] of allies ׳בְּרִית א [Amos 1:9].
3. figurative of resemblance [Job 30:29] אָח הָיִיתִי לְתַנִּים (|| רֵעַ לִבְנוֺת יַעֲנָה i.e. by reason of his crying, compare Di; [Prov 18:9] מִתְרַפֶּה בִּמְלַאכְתּוֺ אָח הוּא לְבַעַל מַשְׁחִית.
4. in phrase one . . . another אִישׁ אָחִיו [Gen 9:5]; [Joel 2:8] Ze [Joel 7:10] אִישׁ ֗֗֗ אָחִיו[Gen 13:11] + 25 t + [Exod 32:27] (where also same phrase with רֵעֵהוּ & קְרֹבוֺ — see these words — & also אִישׁ, אֶחָד; for development of idiom compare [Deut 15:2]; [Isa 19:2]; [Jer 34:14] (compare15) 17 [Ezek 38:21]; [Hag 2:22] usually of men; of faces of golden cherubim [Exod 25:20]; [Exod 37:9] of scales of crocodile [Job 41:9]. (אָח fire-pot. see below II. אחח.)
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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