אָחוֺת114 noun feminine sister (Phoenician אחת, Aramaic אֲחָת , Arabic , Assyrian a—âtu, Dlw, Ethiopic Sabean in proper name אחֿתאמהו OsZMG 1865, 273) — absolute ׳אָ [2Sam 13:1] + (never with article); construct אֲחוֺת [Gen 4:22] +; suffix אֲחֹתִי (אֲחוֺתִי) [Gen 12:13] +, etc.; plural suffix אַחְוֺתַי (Qr אַחְיוֺתַי) [Josh 2:13] אֲחוֺתַיִח [Ezek 16:51] (Qr; Kt אחותך) + 2 t. (Co all ׳אחיו); אַחֲיוֺתֵח [Ezek 16:52] (Co תֿיך); אֲחוֺתֵח [Ezek 16:52] (must be plural, but strike out Co); אַחְיֹתָיו [Job 42:11] אֲחוֺתֵיכֶם [Hos 2:3] אַחְיֹתֵיהֶם [1Chr 2:16]; [Job 1:4] —
1. sister [Gen 4:22]; [Gen 12:13]; [Gen 12:19]; [Gen 20:2]; [Gen 20:5]; [Gen 20:12] (same father, different mother) so [Lev 18:11] compare [Ezek 22:11]; [Gen 24:30] (twice in verse) +, [Exod 2:4]; [Exod 2:7]; [Lev 18:9] (either parent same) so [Deut 27:22]; [Num 6:7]; [2Sam 13:1]; [2Sam 13:2]; [2Sam 13:4] +, [Song 8:8] (twice in verse); called upon, in mourning for dead [Jer 22:18] = near relative [Gen 24:59]; [Gen 24:60] (or because Laban prominent ? so Di); /man of same nationality [Num 25:18] compare [Hos 2:3].
2. = beloved [Song 4:9]; [Song 4:10]; [Song 4:12]; [Song 5:12] (4 t. || כַּלָּה bride; phrase originally implying that marriage with half-sister — of same father — was allowed? compare NöZMG 1886, 150 & [Gen 20:12]).
3. symbolic of Judah, Samaria, Sodom & Jerusalem [Jer 3:7]; [Jer 3:8]; [Jer 3:10]; [Ezek 16:45]; [Ezek 16:52] (twice in verse) (strike out Co) +, [Ezek 23:4]; [Ezek 23:11] +.
4. figurative of intimate connection קָרָאתִי ֗֗֗ אִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָרִמָּה [Job 17:14] אֱמֹר לַחָכְמָה אֲחֹתִי אַתְּ [Prov 7:4].
5.. another, אִשָּׁה אֶלאֲֿחֹתָהּ, of curtains of tabernacle [Exod 26:3] (twice in verse); [Exod 26:6] loops v[Exod 26:5], tenons v[Exod 26:17] of wings of living creatures, Ezekiel's vision [Ezek 1:9]; [Ezek 1:23]; [Ezek 3:13] not of persons, but see רְעוּת.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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