Definition

a sister (used very widely (like brother), literally and figuratively)

Etymology

irregular feminine of H251 (אָח);

Where the KJV renders it

• (an-) other
• sister
• together

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.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.