Strong’s H252 · Hebrew

אַח
ʼach
akh

Definition

{a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance)}

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H251 (אָח)

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • brother

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.